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I've been taking advantage of my commute to go through the rest of my photo backlog, and I'm almost done.  Here are the updates:

Panoramas from the roof of my old apartment in the Haight:

Blue Angels at Fleet Week:

There's been more and more talk recently about using your cell phone to pay for things.  I'm all for it.

"But, what if I lose my cell phone?"  Well, what if you lose your wallet?  If you take something valuable out of the house, there's always a chance that something can go wrong.  But that's always true.  Besides, if you're smart, you've already protected your phone so you can get it back or deactivate it if it gets stolen.

I was recently sent an op-ed from the New York Times, which argues in favor of lowering the barriers of entry for attorneys.  Here's the link.

Thought-provoking, to be sure, but I don't agree with this op-ed.  Winston seems to make two assertions: (a) lowering the barrier to entry would lower the costs of legal representation, and (b) there should be a rating system for lawyers, like Zagat's or Consumer Reports.

I've blogged before about how I hate it when an operating system takes away features that I like.  Two years ago, I left KDE for this reason.  Two years later, I'm leaving Gnome.  Their sin?  Removing support for Compiz.  I want my spinny cube.  To be sure, Gnome 3 has some very nice features, and it's beautiful.  But the Gnome developers made a conscious decision to remove support for a popular feature, a feature I lean on heavily.

I usually ignore advertisements, but I had to share this one.  Apparently, Honda is running a new ad campaign showing that their CRV is superior to the Toyota RAV4.  Yelena & I test drove both cars, multiple times, before choosing the RAV4 two years ago.  So, were we wrong?  Is the CRV superior?  Here's the answer, according to Honda: