This blogger, for the record, sends only the best of wishes to all the victims of Hurricane Katrina. No, it may not be “our tsunami,” but it is not an overhyped disaster, as Michael Demmons and Brendan Loy, remind us. Donate through the Red Cross, link swiped from John Cole.
Last Friday my hard drive was acting berserk and unreadable. If it were just my system drive I would have been happy to simply scorch it and start over, but this was my frickin’ data drive, yo. So after an hour of chkdsk on boot, I check ye olde Event Viewer: Time to fire up… Continue reading this entry
A few quickies while hanging out at the UMCP comp lab: Rich Lowry gets some email: In addition to all of the problems you cite, there is another problem with the Chicken Hawk talk. While it would drastically reduce the number of people allowed to support the use of force, it would not limit in… Continue reading this entry
One for the weekend before I go. Dean Esmay on the butchery of the word, “democracy.” And if any one in his right main dare claim Iran to be “free,” I’ll have to learn another language, because soon enough English may become meaningless. Prof. Althouse comments on today’s WaPo hit piece on Justice Roberts. Apparently… Continue reading this entry
A woman at the College Park Metro Station, waiting for her bus to arrive.
Taken at some station in the DC Metro system.
Total grab bag today: “Open DRM.” Not as much an oxymoron as it sounds. Google has a new desktop app. I’m not a fan of convergence technologies that bring together apples and oranges into a basket. Besides, an app like that, blown up to absurdity, is just another layer to the desktop environment. I, for… Continue reading this entry
One day I am going to see with my naked eyes, in person, a view this blue. I’d sit back on an easy chair and have a beer and just take it all in.
Know thy enemy, ya? For the first time since I EVER started blogging, I was able to install Movable Type onto a testing subdomain of mine. I won’t be actually posting critiques nor commentary on MT. It ain’t my place, and the whole “know they enemy” phrase isn’t my thing either. I have no animus… Continue reading this entry
Sorry folks, count me an unbeliever in the NYT’s prophets. Steve Verdon has a five part series (and then some) on the phenomenon: The Sky is Falling… We are Running Out of Oil, Peak Energy Part One, Two, Three, and Four. It’s a truckload to read, but it’s worth the free time. Also, Freakanomics picks… Continue reading this entry