Monday, February 11, 2013. At dinner with a group of friends, a long narrow table in one of a handful of Italian restaurants in Riyadh. I slowly lift the apple juice beside me, pull the cocktail napkin from under it, and replace the glass on the naked surface.

I really like JavaScript as a language and am interested in the many frameworks that are out there.

Wednesday, 17 July 2013. Defending Free Speech, Weather Permitting. You know those friends who are all joy and happiness until trouble comes along? The ones who are always there to have a good time, and tell jokes, and hang out, and be merry, right up until the point where they encounter a tiny bit of resistance or inconvenience? There is one particular issue, however, that seems to attract the most strikingly clueless.