Article — Secondhand Blues (from Psychology Today)

Argh!!! Only a synopsis is online (unless you subscribe). *sigh* The article discusses how depression is contagious. Simply put, depressed people are often self-centered, tend to overreact, and are overly anxious and pessimistic. Being around that will in turn drain you of energy and make you depressed. Supportive social contacts are the most effective way [...]

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Article — How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships (from Wall Street Journal online)

I agree with a lot of what Ms. Bernstein has to say in her article. And yes, I do realize I was guilty of many of these same faults a few months ago. Making more time to actually talk or write to friends is one of the reasons why I’m not on Facebook nearly as [...]

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Article — Burnout (from A List Apart)

This article is over 3 months old and comes from A List Apart, an on-line magazine for web professionals. But I went back and re-read it yesterday and was again struck by how well it matched my own experiences with burnout, both in college and in my career.
So I’m posting it here in case others [...]

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Awesome smackdown by Neil Gaiman on needy fans

Hat tip to Ryan Sohmer over at Looking For Group for posting a link to this on his site.
I don’t regularly follow Neil Gaiman’s journal, but I might start after reading his post about Entitlement Issues. A reader wrote in to complain about George R.R. Martin’s blog & Twitter posts not containing any information about [...]

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Entitled College Students — Such a good article, and so awful at the same time

The article is “Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes“(1) The subject of the article is just that — college students who feel completely entitled to good grades just for showing up. (Hat tip to slublog over at Ace of Spades.)
One of the examples cited in the article is Professor Marshall Grossman of the University [...]

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Need to start using Firebug more

I downloaded and installed Firebug for Firefox the other day (I primarily use Flock as my browser, but Firefox is nice too) but hadn’t used Firebug much. After running across Kristarella’s tutorial on Firebug, I am going to start trying to use it more. Her tutorial was very informative and I think I’ll learn a [...]

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Web Standards

After a long hiatus from doing anything creative or constructive  on the web — besides infrequent comments on various blogs — I am going to start playing around with various web pages and code and layout again. And trying to write more stuff in general.
I have been following a number of sites that talk about [...]

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Post on Captain Capitalism about the economics of courtship (and my ridiculously long reply)

I have been reading Captain Capitalism’s blog regularly for about a month now, and would highly recommend it. He present good solid arguments with lots of facts and figures, both of which I find highly lacking in most news articles.
He has recently been posting some very interesting thoughts on courtship in the modern world. His [...]

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