Tim is going under the knife today. Say a little prayer for him, if you’re a religious sort. Or, for you atheist/agnostic/doubters like me, cross some fingers, knock some wood, or just think a kind thought (it can’t hurt).

All you Mac freaks already know that OS X Leopard is out today. I’ve been reading a lot of negative reviews of Windows Vista this past week. I didn’t really need much convincing that it’s to be avoided. When my XP laptop finally dies, it’s turning into an iMac. I’ve been saying this for a [...]

Every semester, at least one person turns in heavily plagiarized work. The policy against it is on the syllabus and on every paper assignment. I devote an entire lecture to the topic. I tell my students straight up that I run their papers through plagiarism detection software (and I do, too). But there’s one in [...]

Slacktivist gives the lie to one of Huckabee’s recent bits of historical revisionism.

Some cool news: now Gmail supports IMAP. Here’s how to set it up. I’ve been using Gmail for a long time now. But it might be fun to check my mail with a desktop client once in a while.