Joshua Nozzi

Weathering the Storm

The storm was approaching. Everybody said it would break records. I stocked up on the only essentials we were missing: wine, coffee, and milk for said coffee. Since everything in the house is electric and we have no generator, we also hoped we'd have heat, a stove, and of course TV and Internet. (UPDATED!) Continue reading »

Random Pre-Sleep Thought #2

At the risk of boring you with another of these so soon, this one was actually interesting to me because I have no idea what brought me to it. I was in and out of sleep for awhile before it "arrived". Continue reading »

2009 NIAID CIO Award

Today I was proud to stand with my colleagues and receive the 2009 National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases Chief Information Officer Award for our hard work on the Papillomavirus Episteme (PaVE). Continue reading »

Random Pre-Sleep Thought #1

Like anyone else, I worry over the things most important to me as I drift off to sleep. As I approach and enter the hypnagogic state - where free association and the subconscious seem to take over - my thoughts take on an entirely different form. Sometimes odd scenes play out with a voice narrating in my head. Because most people look at me strangely when I say this, I've concluded it must not be universal, therefore it must be the aspiring writer in me. I decided recently to begin recording those thoughts when I'm awake enough to do so. Here's the first one, captured last night. Continue reading »

New York Times Gets Medieval on CamelCase

Caleb Crain wrote an article about the use of "camel case" (MasterCard, iPhone, AnythingNotSeparatedWithSpaces) on the New York Times. His point: Camel case is evil and must be destroyed.

In other words, though camel case may have been spurred by recent technology, its effect is regressive — in fact, medieval.

Absurd. Continue reading »