It’s one thing to live in a country where you know you’re being censored, and you know that your government is corrupt. But I personally think it’s worse to live in a country that lies to herself every day. A country where people like to think they are free, and uncensored, and like to believe [...]

Message to the Bush Administration: PUT DOWN THE CRACK PIPE!!! The U.S. press secretary claims that Democracy is taking root, and that Iraq “wants us there to finish the job”. Wow… what a ridiculous statement, even for a professional liar. Americans were

Yes we were down… for about a week. I don’t want to talk about it. Let’s just say that I haven’t been diligent enough about building that extra layer of redundancy and remote access required by large distance into my personal systems since moving to SF. Lesson learned. Again.

The other day I took my cat to the Vet for a flea bath… upon picking him up I was asked to fill out a form. The form looked like a mortgage application. They wanted my first, last, and middile name, my address, my home AND work email addresses and phone numbers, my Social Security [...]

There was once a time when you could type something into Google and just KNOW that it was giving you EVERY possible bit of relevant, accessable information. A time when checking results in other search engines was simply redundant as Google always had better results and more of them. It was nice, but it’s OVER. [...]

The Linux desktop is better… but still sucks. I’m a HUGE open source supporter, I’d never run Windoze on a server and haven’t for many years. I’ve written letters to the DOJ about M$ and I pretty much avoid it like the plague. However, I am not enough of a zealot to sacrifice performance for [...]