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Badware Nowhere
By Sean at 28 December, 2009, 9:09 pm
Several days ago someone or something hacked SRB, delivering a nice Christmas present of badware. I guess this was ol’St. Nick’s way of telling me I’ve been more naughty than nice over the last year.
Read More >>There and Back Again
By Sean at 3 October, 2009, 10:00 am
It has been a long haul and I’m slowly crawling out of my hole.
For those who don’t already know, I filed my dissertation, We Shall Refashion Life on Earth! The Political Culture of the Communist Youth League, 1918-1928, on Monday. The process of filing was a bureaucratic nightmare in and of itself. Back and forth [...]
Swine Flu Lands in Moscow
By Sean at 1 May, 2009, 4:42 pm
Hypochondriacs beware! Swine flu has officially landed in Moscow. According to Novyi region, two women have been hospitalized in the capital. “Both women are citizens of Russia. One of them arrived in Russia from New York yesterday, the second today. They had fevers and were admitted to the hospital by our insistence,” Gennadii Onishchenko told [...]
Read More >>Back Online (Finally)
By Sean at 2 December, 2008, 6:45 am
The past five days have been an utter nightmare. On Thanksgiving morning I got an email from my hosting company, BlueHost, saying that they unceremoniously pulled the plug on my account. There was no warning. No clear explanation. The email they sent said, “It has come to our attention that your site is using an [...]
Read More >>A Night with the Paul Klebnikov Fund
By Sean at 26 November, 2008, 9:25 am
My participation in the Paul Klebnikov Fund’s event “What is Russia Thinking? The Word from the Last of the Independent Media” was a great honor. Paul’s widow Musa Klebnikov and his brothers Peter and Michael were amazingly gracious and thankful for my participation. The pleasure however was truly all mine. They’ve built a vary warm, [...]
Read More >>Ah, my neighborhood.
By Sean at 11 July, 2008, 3:22 pm
So the ghetto bird has been hovering overhead all morning. Now the local news vultures are here to feast.
It all started this morning around, I think it was, 5:45 a. m. Pack! Pack! Pack! I say to myself, “Those were gun shots.”
The neighborhood has been a clusterfuck since. Two major LA thoroughfares closed. The dreaded [...]
