Derek Scruggs

From Lily Allen, who I never heard of until 3 minutes ago:
“I thought that being a popstar meant going out getting trashed with famous people and sleeping in all day,” the young singer jokes. “The fact that this is not true has come as a huge disappointment to me.”

I’ve heard a fair share of second-guessing about how the police and the administration in Blacksburg handled yesterday’s terrible events, particularly how slow they were to notify the campus about what was going on. I don’t pretend to know whether and to what to degree they were wrong, but it seems pretty obvious to me […]

Interesting thought about religion from Jonah Goldberg, in which he writes candidly and dispassionately about his (relative lack of) faith.
And then there are some of those discomfiting facts about human groups. Taking the population of these United States, for example, the least religious major group, by ancestry, is Americans of East Asian stock. The most […]

I was tagged by my business partner Steve Outing, so here goes.

My bachelor’s degree is in music education, but I wasn’t a musician. I was a drummer. (rim shot) I was in the marching band in high school & college. I loved it, but realized by my senior year that I didn’t want to teach. […]

This is a picture of a laundromat I used to frequent a few years ago. Now with free Wifi!
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After my initial frustrating disorientation with switching to the Macintosh, including a couple times where I almost decided to return it, I’ve drunk the Kool Aid and decided I’m now a Mac-head. I won’t rehash all the great stuff about the Mac that so many others have been saying for years, but I think the […]

One of the few political bloggers I read regularly is Andrew Sullivan. One neat thing he’s been doing lately is to invite readers to submit photos of the view from wherever it is they happen to read his blog. Lots of good ones have been submitted from all over the world, including one from […]

After years of hearing about how great the Mac is, especially from the geek set, I finally went out and bought a MacBook Pro.
So far I’d have to say my experience is very mixed. Yes, it’s very stable and the Mac UI is nice, but some of the design decisions are very puzzling to […]

I don’t have anything profound to say about September 11. I’m not a good enough writer or original enough a thinker to add to what others are saying. However, below are a few links to things that most powerfully bring back the memory of that awful day. I’d rather not dwell on images of the Pentagon and […]

I’ve had my nosed so buried in code lately that I forgot to announce our latest site. Rock climbing at YourClimbing.com went live about three weeks ago and is starting to get some traffic. We have some more features that we’ll roll out next week. Then we need to upgrade the server, probably next weekend, so […]