Patent Trolls

I’m very glad to see John Oliver bring up our absurd legal patent system in his Television program. Anyone with a brain should be against the notion of software patents. Not only does it stop innovation, it literally hurts our economy as whole. To put it into perspective, recently Apple who themselves are one of […]

Goodbye physical books and hello e-books

It’s amazing how far I’ve come along, I recall first hearing about the concept of e-book and e-book readers back when Sony released their first e-book reader in 2006. At that time, and up until a few months ago, I was a total dead-tree format book purist. Man, has that changed. Roll the clock nine […]

R.I.P. Eduardo Galeano

If you’re an ordinary American, you probably have no idea who Eduardo Galeano is. Or yet, you might learn who he was thanks to the incident were former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave President Obama a copy of his book “Open Veins of Latina America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”. Galeano was essentially the Noam […]

Moving off Ruby on Rails

A couple of years ago I decided to build a simple portfolio site using RoR as a way to learn the framework more in depth. After all they’re lots of idiots who see the entire Ruby programming language as it only being solely for RoR development. Like this fucking idiot Python vs Ruby On RAILS, […]