In which Zach laments the slow death of the “information GUI” in modern operating systems and protests their replacement with large, uninformative icons that make user interfaces less functional.

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I was really blessed to find a new job relatively quickly after I returned to America from the Middle East last September. Only three months of job searching, combined with supportive parents and friends (and their couches and extra beds) seems downright easy compared to the overall job market around America. I feel lucky that [...]

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It’s been a good month for traveling to new places. A year ago if I’d written that here, it would meant that I was biking, hiking, or jetting off to new exotic lands where they put a lot of cumin on the falafel (like the Palestinians in Nazareth). This year it means two separate trips [...]

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I love Windows 7, don’t get me wrong. Although I didn’t beta test this particular Microsoft operating system (I’ve learned my lesson about that when I beta tested Vista), I’ve been pleased as punch on how much Microsoft has gotten right this time around, and more importantly, how well they’ve managed their publicity to keep [...]

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I almost had a heart attack today when I opened up my Thunderbird email client after setting up and removing some SMTP accounts. Of my three main email accounts, the primary account that I use here in Jordan had suddenly vanished, taking out about 6,000 emails from the past year. I had been using a [...]

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Intracom provided my teammate Andrew with the company’s high-definition Panasonic HDC-HS9 camcorder during the race, in order to help record the memories of us being sweaty and exhausted. Now just imagine the wonders of being sweaty and exhausted, captured in high-definition! That’s right, 1440 x 1080 and 1920 x 1080 video clips were being taken [...]

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