My new title came from a funny (yet trenchant) quote from Steve Weinberg that I found in the QOTD machine. On my own site, no less! Which just goes to prove that self-aggrandization can only end in self-cannibalization. Oh, and tears. An expert is a person who avoids the small …
This week I’m at a training course (RH423) at Red Hat in Tysons Corner. Commuting in this morning was almost like a dream—the beautiful, peaceful sort in which many of the idiots have been vaporized, kind of like the NHL season or Cuba Gooding Jr.’s chances at another Oscar. It’s …
As with every other half-baked commentary of its ilk, the author of this deranged, zigzag screed has no conception of the Constitution’s purpose. It is a document that guarantees certain rights against encroachment by the government, not by private entities. Free speech is not your ability to say whatever you …
This is a personal letter from a soldier whom I know secondhand in Iraq, talking about the current state of affairs there. I wonder how much of this gets covered in the mass media—somewhere between zero and “huh?” I suppose. Hello everyone, Taking a little time out from hectic last …
Unbeknownst to me (until now), the Apple store in Evansville, Indiana, which hosted frields.com bellied-up at the end of 2004, which is why my mail there has been bouncing — and why there’s now a generic travel sales site taking up referrals from that URL. I had hoped that the …
I am loving the new GIMP 2.2. Used it to retouch this photo of Ethan, taken just a few days ago. It was a snap to use some of the tools to reduce the depth of focus, airbrush some â??moistureâ? on his face (readers who are parents will know whereof …
As if being sniped at by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) weren’t enough (wow! who could have seen that coming?), Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice was taken to task by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) for comments she made to Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) concerning the tsunami disaster and its impact …
New Year’s Resolution: To no longer acknowledge, other than by denigration, the travesty known as Kwanzaa.
(With apologies for the title, taken from a particularly ugly bit of Yes bloat-o-rama from the 1970’s.) Chris has posted an entry regarding Antony Flew’s change of heart regarding a/theism. I found this incredibly interesting, especially given my own philosophical musings of late. Particularly fascinating, perhaps even eerily familiar, given …
Michael Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat, writes about the effects of recent US Customs policy change. Although I’m not sure how contributing to EPIC really helps this case, seeing as how they are regularly dismissed by government security bureaucrats as paranoiacs and assorted nutballs, it’s obvious that this policy is …