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Fog and Public Service

~9 hours ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
It was super-foggy last night, so I went out to look at streetlights through tree branches. You could spend a lot of time fooling around with silly depth-of-field...

An Office

1 day ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
For a while it seemed like I was going to lose my dingy but exquisitely-located office on The Main. So I was going around town, looking at offices for rent...

Channel Choices

5 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
When I have something work-related to tell the world, I have a lot of choices: This blog, @timbray, +Tim Bray, or (work-related, remember), the Android...

Cloudy

8 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
I don’t spend that much time thinking cloud these days, although there are interesting machinations here at Google that might suck me in should I get bored...

Street

8 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
Over on Google+, there are a lot of photographers. I mean, really a lot. And not just nerd-with-an-OK-camera dabblers like me; we’re talking pros, big-name...

Size Still Matters

11 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
I have to carry two phones; one for G-stuff, which is often unreleased software running on unreleased hardware, and another for my personal life. For the...

Chinese Workers’ Problems

11 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
This New York Times story, telling ugly stories of human suffering at Chinese outsourcers, isn’t about Apple. It’s pure politics and economics....

Browser Sedimentation

14 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
I wanted to hit my browser’s “home” button and for a baffling moment couldn’t find it. This remains a rare experience, but I found it a worrying symptom...

Cirque Does MJ

15 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
The full name of Cirque du Soleil’s new show is Michael Jackson Immortal; Google took me and somewhere between ten and twenty thousand other employees off...

Not Piracy

19 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
Sites all over the Internet are going dark to show that they object to legislation currently before the US Congress. I’m not American but these words...