This story is a very interesting read on the money trail between Microsoft, the softening of the antitrust judgments against the company, and the growth of the anti-Linux lobbying push. As if it weren’t enough that their software is the proximate cause of the majority of aggregate IT downtime globally. …
So, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president-elect is a terrorist? (The adjective “former” just doesn’t seem to hang well with that particular noun.) How long do we expect it to take for Congressional Democratic Party mouthpieces to denounce this as yet another in a long line of incendiary tactics of the …
Eleya holds our very first Garden Bazaar today. The sale of our Sundries and Trinkets, amassed over half our lifetime, will hopefully render enough Coinage to allow us to flee the drudgery of this awful domain and start a new life in America. Thus far she have collected a Grand …
The food chain that eats its own tail. To Chris’ post on bacteria-devouring virii, I say why not? After all, we already have oil-eating bacteria. What puzzles me is, why can’t we just eliminate the middleman and pass the savings on to you? Revisionism on revisions. I hate CVS. I …
I’m feeling pretty proud of myself, having fixed our powder room toilet, which over the past few months haw gradually suffered a decline in its ability to refill after flushing. I had previously replaced the stopcock assembly and checked the whole thing for leaks, but with no effect. Turns out …
I am a stickler for keeping my fingers off CDs and DVDs. The idea of coating the plastic surface of all that digital media goodness with my yucky finger oils and dead skin cells just turns my stomach. I’m always neurotically careful to hold them by the edges; it’s a …
My hell week at work ended on Thursday night, but I spent pretty much the whole day Friday with a couple of my friends who were attending. We went sightseeing down the Civil War Trails, visiting the battlefields of Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Courthouse, with a side trip to downtown …
Fedora Core 4 is released today! Join the torrent if you have some spare bandwidth, and remember to leave it open to help others.
I’m glad Chris agrees with me about not only George Lucas, but Ben Folds and my all-time favorites Del Amitri. The Dels bottomed out sales-wise with their adventurous and occasionally brilliant electronica-laced Can You Do Me Good?, and then unceremoniously broke up with a mid-2002 announcement from lead singer Justin …
Most nights I don’t remember my dreams, which is good, because when I do, they usually don’t make any sense anyway. Every once in a while, though, there’s one that I think I need to remember, and I’ll write it down somewhere. So, as loathe as I am to begin …