Posted by: bertrand on: September 3, 2008
Firstly, I have been amazed at how my MacBook Pro can do torrents on Wireless. As it speaks, its downloading the new season of Prison Break at about 800KB/s without configuring anything. Literally, out of the box. This is unprecedented. I’ve never had such a painless torrent experience. Best part is, I thought that I [...]
Posted by: bertrand on: November 20, 2006
Scathing is the word you’re looking for. Until you read the next bit. I in no way hold any of these views written in the above video or in the Far Eastern Economic Review’s article below. I have no views whatsoever. I’m not allowed to have them. The article below is [...]
Posted by: bertrand on: November 16, 2006
Don’t they look sweet together? Bear in mind that this was in 2004. It looks like Bush is teaching or indicating to our dear leader something we didn’t know before. Maybe we should teach Bush a thing or two about how to win elections …
Lesson 1: You give the good news before the election, not [...]
Posted by: bertrand on: November 10, 2006
There is a real sense that they’ve played right into Karl Rove’s hands. This was a campaign in which the Democrats didn’t put forward a single coherent position, offer any vision for the future, and the only Democrat to get any TV time used it to call US troops retarded. And yet somehow they deliver [...]
The Audacity of Hope
Posted by: bertrand on: October 11, 2008
I used to be a Republican and a Conservative. In the election of 2004, I firmly believed that George W. Bush was the better alternative compared to John Kerry. On some level, I still do believe that. I choose to believe that in all people, there is a marked level of good and of [...]