I’ve been touched by his noodly appendage!
Kansas has enacted new laws to permit instruction in "Intelligent Design" (I.E. God created Earth and all life 6,000 years ago...) in schools. At first, I was horrified by this:…
Semi-annual hacking…
This server has been down more or less continuously for the last 24 hours. It was all part of the semi-annual celebration known as "Hack Day", which is always accompanied…
The danger of knowing too much…
I'm catching up on some reading while I'm sick with the flu. I finished reading "The Da Vinci Code", which was a lot better than I expected. Basically, a mystery…
Living dead…
I'm worn out and tired today. I'm feeling like I'm starting to catch a cold. It rained all day, and my car still isn't fixed. As I shuffled about the…
Some days it doesn’t pay to get out of bed…
I was driving in to work this morning...the usual stop and go on Highway 1. I had just entered the highway and noticed traffic had come to a complete stop.…
The Moon…
We had a full moon last night, and I decided to try some (totally informal) experimenting in "astrophotography" I took this picture with my Canon digital SLR and a 75-300…
FEMA head should be fired
Apparently President Bush has turned FEMA responsibility for the Katrina catastrophe over to a coast guard Admiral, sending FEMA head Michael Brown back home. The tragedy in New Orleans has,…
A few more site theme “niggles” fixed…
As I have mentioned before, I am using a slightly modified version of a theme from Ensellitis here. As per my usual habit, I am always tinkering. There were a…
Office politics erupts
Two secretaries at an Australian law firm lost their jobs a few days ago. Apparently they exchanged a series of escalating emails (read the series of emails from the bottom…
Slashdot changed their RSS feed URL and never told me!
Sigh... I just spent nearly two hours figuring out that Slashdot has changed the URL of their RSS feed. Their old RSS feed URL (http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf) generates a 301 "Moved Permanently"…