Dowbrigade

I guess I’m just an analog kind of guy. Not that I don’t go absolutely ga-ga over the latest digital toys, or consider myself an early adopter of whatever technology my salary can support, but over the years I have shown absolutely no aptitude for nor interest in programming, coding, scripting, debugging or compiling. [...]

Holding severed head in place, he defied death
AGRA: A 28-year-old carrier van driver’s head nearly got chopped off in
a road accident. Weeks later he is alive, thanks to sheer grit.
His head almost severed, blood oozing [...]

College Rating by U.S. News Will Now
Skip a Key Factor
The New York Times Education Life reports that US News and World Reports
annual ranking of the top [...]

Note
to my students: As promised, I have posted my
page about Boston Beaches Accessible by Public Transportation to
our web site. These are all good alternatives
[...]

Excellent
article this morning in the Globe about women competing
against men at the highest level of professional athletics.  The
article mentions Susy Whaley and Anika Sorensen in golf, Billie Jean
[...]

I found the full-text of the new University of California policy on romantic and sexual relations between students and faculty at their web site. It attempts to formalize what had been unwritten policy at UC, and in fact most campuses in the US. At first glance, the key point on which the regulation [...]

Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, citing concerns about student privacy, moved yesterday to quash subpoenas issued by the recording industry to discover the identities of students the industry says are illegally distributing copyrighted music.
The moves were the first major obstacles for the recording industry in its campaign against ordinary computer users [...]