Contents

Software Projects

• Three Crickets, my company
• Khövsgöl, a wonderful music player for the GNOME desktop
• The New Athenian, a site I developed for my alma mater
• VNCj, a Java library for developing VNC servers
• telnetj, a Java library for developing Telnet servers
• Java URL, an alternative to Java Web Start
• 99% Java, JNI extensions to Java
• CoJaK, a dictionary of Chinese/Japanese/Korean ideographs
• HanziFlash, Chinese ideograph flashcards
• Pinyin for Microsoft Word

Articles About Programming

• There's No Such Thing as Web 1.5 (LiveJournal, 12.24.07)
• Keeping the C ABI Without C (LiveJournal, 9.19.07)
• Why Your Next Project Should Be in Java (LiveJournal, 5.6.07)
• Remote-Control Java (JavaWorld, 7.02) (Chinese translation)
• Launching into Java (JavaWorld, 9.01)
• Enhance your Java application with Java Native Interface (JavaWorld, 8.99)

Articles About Android

• Useful Android Software
• Rooting Android: What Is it?

Articles About Free Software

• What are Free Operating Systems? Are They "Linux"? (LiveJournal, 4.4.08)
• An Explanation of the Debian Packaging System (LiveJournal, 3.30.08)
• What Is a Free Operating System Release? (LiveJournal, 3.12.08)
• Ridiculously Easy Ways to Try a Free Operating System (LiveJournal, 2.19.08)
• Recommended Applications for Ubuntu (LiveJournal, 2.19.08)
• What Is a "Desktop" in a Free Operating System? And How to Choose One? (LiveJournal, 2.15.08)
• Sound Production Using Free Software (LiveJournal, 11.17.07)

Academic Articles

• Franz Boas and the Discovery of Culture (BA thesis, 5.03)
• Habits of Computerized Communication at Amherst College (5.8.00)

Articles About Yoga

• The Most Important Yoga Pose (LiveJournal, 2.4.09)
• On Binding (LiveJournal, 1.5.09)
• Control: Inverted Balance (LiveJournal, 10.9.08)
• The Benefits of Being Upside-Down (LiveJournal, 9.23.08)
• Taste of Chicago Yoga (LiveJournal, 8.08)
• Mechanics of Breathing (LiveJournal, 7.13.08)
• Yoga and Breath (LiveJournal, 5.3.08)
• A Few Benefits of Yoga (LiveJournal, 2.11.08)
• A Few Tips for Yoga Practitioners (LiveJournal, 12.13.07)
• Deliberately Finding Joy Through Yoga (LiveJournal, 6.17.07)

Opinions

• Nutritionism As Straw Target (LiveJournal, 2.4.07)
• Darwin Was Wrong (LiveJournal, 7.23.06)
• Jews in Space (The New Athenian, 5.6.03)
• AAS sabotages ideals of liberal arts education (The Amherst Student, 1.29.03)
• No Need to Argue (The Amherst Student, 5.2.02)
• One Race to Rule Them All (The New Athenian, 3.25.02)
• Amherst, Microsoft: Compare and Contrast (The Amherst Student, 2.7.01)
• Amherst's Multicultural Identity (The Amherst Student, 11.8.00)
• The Hidden Agenda of Creation Science (The Amherst Student, 9.20.00)

Miscellaneous Articles

• Handy Dandy Guide to Federal Taxes for Graduate Students (2.26.08)
• Dealing with Jealousy (LiveJournal, 8.13.07)
• Guide to Smoking a Hookah (LiveJournal, 7.26.07)
• A Rough Guide to Chicago's Neighborhoods (LiveJournal, 11.30.06)
• Footbinding and Chinese Civilization (LiveJournal, 10.17.06)
• Love and Typhoons (LiveJournal, 9.15.06)
• Happy Thanksgiving!
• Pledge Against LiveJournal Drama
• Guide to Pipe Tobacco (LiveJournal, 4.7.12)

Angry Letters

(letter titles are by editors, not by me)

• Speakers' hidden purpose (The Amherst Student, 10.23.02)
• Use a focused approach, not hyperbole (The Amherst Student, 5.1.02)
• College news has become irrelevant (The Amherst Student, 4.10.02)
• Hillel fails to include all Jews (The Amherst Student, 2.20.02)
• The (new and better) Spectator (The Amherst Student, 4.25.01)

Creative Writing

• A Girl Who Lived in a Box, and Other Dreamlets
• Brother Heroes
• VR Adventures
• The Zodiac of Eternal Indifference
• The Last Day of the Neanderthals

Articles About Me

• "Firecracker" Tal Liron makes himself heard, by David Chen (The Amherst Student, 5.25.03)