Disqus comments…trial

I’m throwing up Disqus comments on posts that don’t already have comments. It will be interesting to see how it panes out…
consider it a short term experiment

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Shabu Shabu

I just had Shabu for the first time — a place called “Shabu House” — on Geary Boulevard.
I’ve written a Haiku to capture my experience.
slippery tofu
floating in my shabu broth
escaping chopsticks

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I am legend verdict: Thumbs up

I’ve been waiting for Will Smiths new vampire/zombie movie “I am Legend” to come out.  I would encourage people to go see it. However there were a few things that were inconsistent and really deserved to be covered more in the movie mostly the following:
Spoiler Alert!
The evolution of dark-seeker intelligence.
The effects of the virus on [...]

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Moving to webfaction

After some intense web-window shopping over the weekend I’ve decided to go with Webfaction as my webhost, and I’m generally impressed. I actually dreaded the migration out of the server I’m running in my closet (I kid you not)… but I realized I need to give up some control so I can focus on the [...]

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Hello World!

The name is Yousef Ourabi, and I’ll be your host today on this internet thingy.
Q: Why am I doing this?
A: Frustration at the quality of tech journalism, and news. Actually the quality of news in general.
Q: What will I cover?
A: Everything. Things I know a little about, and even those I don’t. (Disclaimer, I will [...]

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