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 …
This article is a grisly reminder of why the war in Iraq was justified on more than simply grounds of whether Saddam Hussein had a ready stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Now, however, what are we to do with Sudan?
As much as I love Red Hat and Fedora, there are many reasons why I don’t look for a job there. Admittedly, most of these people are Fedora community folks, but most of the Red Hatters I’ve met are proud lefties. Hey, to each his own.
Well, maybe Edwards might be the more realistic candidate. He would be a departure from the Democratic Party’s norm: He’s a Southerner. He hasn’t spent his whole life in the legislature. He’s too young to be a vet. He doesn’t put people to sleep when he speaks. On the other …
According to an AP report, John Kerry has conceded defeat to President Bush in a telephone call to the White House this morning. He ran a tough campaign, and I personally am very grateful that Kerry has taken the high road in not turning the election into a court battle, …
As I hit the hay last night at around 1:30 a.m., Mary Beth Cahill was making an asinine statement vastly overestimating the number of provisional, overseas, and military ballots still to count in Ohio. This morning, with 100% of the precincts reporting, President Bush is ahead in Ohio by about …