An Alternative to Bailouts – Let Companies Fail

I discovered an interesting video on YouTube a few days ago and I thought I’d share it.

From the video description…

Peter [Schiff] continues his ongoing rant against stimulus packages, bailouts and increased government debt. Peter goes on to say, once again, that saving is the prudent action at this time, continued spending will result in the propping up of these failing companies.

CNN claims to lose the signal and the interview ends prematurely.

Peter Schiff CNN International – World News Europe

Your thoughts?

Mixing the Old and the New

What is it about old stuff that makes us get nostalgic when we look at it? I seem to get nostalgic over lots of stuff — even stuff which was created before my time. Like this Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal, for example. Doesn’t just looking it at it make you miss the clickity-clackity keys of the old keyboards and the green hue of the computer terminal?

Lear Siegler ADM3A System

Or what about the classic Nintendo Entertainment System? I remember playing this machine for the first time at my uncle and aunt’s house when I was probably 6 years old. I remember being amazed at the lush 8-bit graphics and amazing beeps and boops the games made.

The pinnacle of video game console achievement.

And sometimes, I even start to miss the sumptuous computing experience that was Windows 3.1. This was the first non command line operating system I ever used. Just look at it — doesn’t it make you pine for the days gone by when the Clock application could be considered a “feature” of an operating system?

Windows 3.11 Workspace - Has Minesweeper really not changed since 1992?

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What’s been happening in my life

Lots has happened since my last blog post. So much has been happening, in fact, that I haven’t had time to update my blog! If you’ve been following my updates on Twitter, then you might have heard that:

• I finished Spring Quarter Finals at Stanford.
• I went to Disneyworld with my parents for 5 days (first time I’ve been to the place!).
• I started research in the Stanford Computer Science department. I’m working in the HCI group.
• I’ve started running again after taking much of the last year off. It feels great to be back!
• I signed up for Netflix and have been watching lots of movies and TV shows.
• I signed up for Linode web hosting and I am in the process of transfering all my websites over to the new server.
• I set up and secured a vanilla Linux server completely from the command line, which was an awesome learning experience. I will never use CPanel or Plesk again!
• My MacBook Pro laptop is acting up. The keyboard and trackpad don’t respond and the monitor turns purple at random intervals. You know the saying: “Mac – it just works”.
• I’ve started playing my Nintendo DS again after over a year of not playing. Professor Layton’s Curious Village is one of the coolest games I’ve ever played.
• This site, Feross.org, is now PageRank 5, making it my first PageRank 5 website.
• And lastly, I tweaked the layout of this blog to add some slick CSS effects. Hopefully, you’ve noticed and like the changes!

I’ll will do more in-depth posts about these and more topics soon. Stay tuned and thanks for reading my blog!