Big Apple: Taking a Bite of Barack Obama

Herewith, the good news for those of you who bought Leopard for your Apple Computer(s) in order to get the parental controls system. It turns out that the issue is that it doesn’t work well with Mozilla Firefox. But, it does work with Safari… So, in the...

Yo-Yo Ma on NPR’s “This I Believe”

And this I, too, believe… As part of All Things Considered, NPR and Jay Allison have (re-)created a “This I believe” segment, based on a 1950s radio program of the same name that was hosted by acclaimed journalist Edward R. Murrow. The purpose of the show is to...

NPR discusses Facebook Privacy…again

The issue of privacy continues to dominate the offline discussion on Facebook. NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Science Friday, 21 March 2008, featured a special on Facebook, and the big privacy question. Hosted by Ira Flatow, the show featured Daniel Weitzner (WWW...

Minter Dialogue: A New Blog Title

What’s in a name? After 1 1/2 years of existence, my blog continues to be an activity of no uncertain pleasure for me. I had for some time thought that the fact that its name, eponymous Minter Dial’s Blog, was not exactly a marketing angle, or meaningful...

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