Archive for January, 2003

What’s the State of the Union? Answer Hazy, Ask Again Later

January 29th, 2003

President Bush has given another State of the Union address, and I have to say I’m less sanguine about the American future now than I was earlier today. I can’t help but think we have a President who is more than willing to mortgage our future for short-term political gain, and who is playing fast [...]


How To Feel Deeply Ashamed

January 26th, 2003

I don’t know if any of my high school friends read this page (Duncan, maybe? Hi, Dunc.) So no one reading this likely knows my friend Randy, who is right now in Afghanistan. Randy is a giant goof, or at least was in high school. A huge guy (as in “incredibly strong and tall, the [...]


Bush the Idiot, part the umpteenth

January 23rd, 2003

“When Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried, and persecuted as a war criminal.” “persecuted”? Fuck off, Shrub, learn to talk.


War

January 23rd, 2003

Can I be the last to publicly say that Bush is yearning, crying for, desperately begging to start an unnecessary war? Can I join in the long line of billions of people outside the United States who think the US has gone off its rocker? Can I put out my vote for “a solution to [...]


Unbiased Reporting, American Style

January 22nd, 2003

I went to Seattle for the weekend to see the family. On my way there, I was sitting in the Manchester, NH, airport, and instead of AirportCNN (or whatever it is), they have Fox News. I have heard about Fox News before. My parents like to watch Fox News. I had a firm mental note, [...]


Feeling refreshed…

January 21st, 2003

… even though it’s a bit past three in the morning. I just got back from a trip to Seattle, to check in with the wife and kids. Three full days of bliss, it was. When work is long, when winter is cold, when the coffee is bad, you need to remember that family is [...]


Fuck.

January 15th, 2003

This sucks.


UI Design, or Everyone’s A Critic

January 12th, 2003

Kuro5hin has a new article on user interface design that has generated a lot of discussion. As UI is something I’m rather interested in, and paid to be good at, it interested me a fair bit.


Who said Iraq isn’t interested in a free press?

January 11th, 2003

Odd little web burp of the day: I’m here on my work machine, and I haven’t gotten around to importing my bookmarks from my laptop yet. And I wanted to go to Project Gutenberg because, well, because who the hell wouldn’t want to go to Project Gutenberg, like, constantly? They, and Octavo Digital Rare Books, [...]


This is why “self-regulation” for industry doesn’t work

January 10th, 2003

They won’t do it. Ever.