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I try hard not to make this blog about my rants and raves on consumer products or services -- but today's going to be an exception.  Recently, I've had 2 separate experiences with different airlines which I thought might be helpful to my readers. About 3 weeks ago my Aunt came to visit from Boston.  She's blind and very independent ...

After a long break from blogging, I'm back and the typing fingers are rattling with buzz.  Today's list of brain food is short but still good, so let's get right down to it.Dan D'Andrea pointed me in the direction of this Internet Explorer Developers Toolbar posted on MSDN.  I've been using it extensively in a web ...

I haven't posted to my blog in over a week, and am starting to feel a little guilty about it!  Things have really picked up here, with work and our personal lives.  Last weekend my friend Sean Thompson came up to visit us.  We took him on quite a tour of Boston, including:The Granary Burial GroundFaneuil Hall / Quincy ...

Dan D'Andrea came to visit July 29.  I took him to MIT's campus at Cambridge where we found this funky sculpture near the Strata building.  You can see the sculpture from the road about 1000 feet away.

This is the sight of Samuel Adams' tombstone in Boston.  The funny thing is that some ignorant people attribute the Samuel Adams Beer with this man.  Although Sam Adams was a brewer (and a tax collector) for some part of his life, he enjoyed success with neither.  Instead, Sam Adams was a well known propogandist during the ...

John Hancock is buried at the Granary Burying Ground. He was a very prominent and outspoken figure of the revolution, and has one of the most famous signatures in history. He was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence and signed his name big enough so the King of England would be able to read it clearly. This inspired the phrase ...

The Massachusetts State House, located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA is the seat of government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Located in the Boston neighborhood of Beacon Hill, the building houses the Massachusetts General Court and the offices of the Governor of Massachusetts  The State House was designed by Charles Bulfinch as a ...

On May 28, 1863, the largest crowd in Boston's history assembled to send off the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment to fight in the Civil War. Many onlookers had purchased a souvenir of the day containing a quote from the English poet Lord Byron: What's impressive about this memorial is the optical illusion involved.  The ...

The Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences is built on the site of MIT's legendary Building 20, a "temporary" timber-framed building constructed during World War II that served as a breeding ground for many of the great ideas that were born at MIT. Designed by renowned architect Frank O. Gehry, Stata is ...