Kevin Purdy

“We got our thing, but it’s just part of the big thing.” - Zenobia
If you’ve spoken to me recently, or if you’re one of about six people I forced to read my last post on my defunct first blog attempt, you know that Sunday night was a pretty frickin’ huge event for me.
The last season [...]

How come the kid representing Linux has the unkempt hair?
To say the least, Microsoft’s varied efforts at stonewalling or segmenting the Linux market have gotten markedly different receptions in the U.S. and Europe.
Take, for example, this report in the Sept. 20 issue of The Economist, which summarizes the findings by a trial court for the [...]

Slate posted an insightful article Friday looking at the latest move by networks to retain the kind of big, multi-demographic audiences they once took for granted. The short version is that dramas with big, big casts — Heroes, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, almost every recent HBO series and, yes, even this blogger’s all-time favorite, The Wire, [...]