Odds and Ends by Tal Liron
Copyright Tal Liron. All rights reserved. Unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Software Projects
- My GitHub
- Three Crickets, my company
- Dangling from a Binary Precipice, my tech blog
- 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
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
- The Wheel of Life
- Planet of the Jews
Articles About Me
- “Firecracker” Tal Liron makes himself heard, by David Chen (The Amherst Student, 5.25.03)