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I've ranted before about Google's long game; see Google's Endgame.  I 2011, I predicted that Google was aiming at a unified user interface.  I was partially right.  Google is still aiming at a unified UI, but their goals are going so much deeper than that.  I just wiped my cell phone, and the experience gave me a taste of the future, Google style.

All you need to know is there's a cut scene where a character talks about someone he lost, while Free Bird plays in the background.

I was just having a conversation with Yelena last week about how other nations perceive Americans as weak.  I argued that what others perceive as our weakness, is actually our strength.

The Art of Manliness says upgrading from a disposable cartridge razor to an old fashioned safety razor is like upgrading from a Pinto to a Cadillac.

It's true.

Yesterday I stopped by The Art of Shaving and picked up a blade and a brush. This morning I used it for the first time, using the Art of Manliness blog post for some direction. Wow.

I am pleased to announce my new professional website, Koplowicz & Sons.  It's the product of several weeks' worth of effort.  In the process, I taught myself several new technologies, including:

There's been a fair bit of buzz on a petition to let Texas secede from the Union.  The logic is (a) they want to, and (b) the rest of us would be better off without them.  It's hilarious nonsense, of course, but let's look at why.

It's time to upload some photos of Aaron (since he's almost 2 weeks old) but my old photo gallery stopped working.  It was getting pretty long in the tooth anyway; the software behind it (Gallery2) is three years old.  It never integrated properly with Drupal and took a lot of work to maintain.  It's still active for 69thnewyork.com, and you can still access all the old photos and features at koplowicz.com/gallery2.