Frist gloats to Republicans, not about how Alito is an excellent jurist, but about how he is a liberal Democrat’s worst nightmare. Which is just another indication of how our government is a horrible system that is easily gamed. No computer game could survive with the sort of design our government has. It has too [...]
So we had very strong winds yesterday, and some shingles blew off the roof. I got home after dark last night, and without a ladder, I couldn’t take a good look, but I did see that there was exposed plywood. So the tar paper tore, I thought. I went to Home Depot, got a ladder, [...]
The MLB and a fantasy sports league are in court to decide whether or not baseball stats are in the public domain. All I can think is that fantasy sports are one of the few things going right for baseball these past few years, that fantasy leagues are drawing in and retaining fans, and that [...]
An inch or so of snow fell last night and today. Maybe two inches, doesn’t matter. The world is white and grey again. We’ve been watching Battlestar Galactica, the first two seasons, on DVD. Man, this series is good. I mean, really, really good. Not good for a science fiction series, not good for the [...]
Snow, or rather ice masquerading as snow, has covered most everything for the past month or so, but we’ve had a week or so above freezing, which has eaten away at the snow cover bit by bit, and yesterday we had a blistering 50 degree day, which pretty much wiped out the rest. The world [...]
Wow, that was a pretty big MacWorld keynote. New iMacs, new MacBook, new iWork and iLife, Intel everywhere,… pretty crazy. And with the news that there’s nothing really to stop folks from trying to run XP on the MacBook, I think I hear one calling my name. I’m sure someone will figure out how to [...]
The balloon tips in Windows drive me nuts. 99% of the time, I am getting one because my wireless connection hiccoughed, and it’s telling me I’m connected. Fucking yay. It wouldn’t be so bad, except you have to dismiss them yourself: they don’t just expire. But ha, after a little trip through the registry, I [...]
Pat Robertson is so dependable. As soon as Ariel Sharon has his second – much more serious – stroke, I knew there would be someone saying that this is divine retribution. I hadn’t guessed Pat would be the first, but that’s my fault for underestimating him.
I came home last night and fell asleep at 9pm, waking up at 8am this morning, long enough to turn on the tv for Izzy, walk Ruby outside, and fall back asleep on the couch until noon. I guess I needed some sleep. It felt good. Woke up for a couple hours before heading out [...]
Wow, the upgrade was a breeze. Wipe the old files, copy over the new ones, copy my theme back in, copy my config back in, and run the upgrade script. Bam, I’m running WordPress 2.0. Now to search for my favorite plugins, to make myself spam-proof… or maybe that’s part of the standard distro now. [...]
