Jodi was persistent and I finally relented to read Life of Pi by Yann Martel, a book she heartedly recommended. Boy, am I glad she is persistent! Life of Pi is about a young man in India, the son of a zookeeper, who decides that he wants to be Christian, Muslim and Hindu because he […]
Author / Scott DeToffol
Seymour Hersh has written another explosive article in The New Yorker. Hersh claims that Bush administration officials say they were involved in “the planning of Israel’s retaliatory attacks” because Bush and Cheney “were convinced that a successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign against Hezbollah’s heavily fortified underground-missile and command-and-control complexes in Lebanon could ease Israel’s […]
Microsoft released a new tool called Windows Live Writer that aims to make blogging easy. I’m testing it with this post. It supports many of the blog software packages (I use Moveable Type) and their own hosted service called Windows Live Spaces. Two of the barriers to a good blog is writing often (ahem) and having a […]
“Caring for Your Introvert” is a spot-on article published in The Atlantic, a wonderful magazine. This is me. Here is a follow up interview with the author, Jonathan Rauch.
I get lots of questions from friends and family about PCs, software and technology in general. Lately I’ve been recommending software and have promised many people that I’d send them an email with links to download the goods. Well, instead of sending out emails every time someone asks, I’ll direct them to this post. So […]
Google has a cool and controversial new service called Google Print. They have indexed entire libraries of books and made them searchable. When a search gets a hit, Google will display an excerpt of the book showing the searched word(s). For fun I typed in “DeToffol” to see if anything showed up. Much to my […]
UpNorth 017 Originally uploaded by The DeToffols. Flickr is a web service that allows you to setup a personal site to post pictures. It’s free, although you can subscribe to get additional features. We’ve posted a bunch of pictures so check it out. It would be fun if some friends and family also setup Flickr […]
www.AndrewSullivan.com – Daily Dish Andrew Sullivan writes about how the U.S. Senate passed an amendment to a military appropriations bill that would bar the U.S. military from indecent treatment of detainees. The amendment passed by a 90-9 vote. This amendment still needs to be passed by the House, and President Bush has threatened to veto […]
