Month: June 2005
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“Army recruits shortfall blamed on Iraq war critics”
This is a Yahoo story, which means it will be gone in an hour or so, but the gist of it is that the Pentagon and some Congressmen are blaming people who call the war a mistake, and media types who only show the bad side of the war for the failure of the Army…
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and so it begins…
So much for “don’t be evil” – this guy [ link dead, no archive ] got locked out of Gmail because he uses Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension that lets him add content and functionality to web pages that isn’t provided by the authors. In a world governed by contracts – like ULAs and SLAs…
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A New Film Release Paradigm
Film Movement is a DVD-of-the-month club that releases independent films on DVD to members the same date they are released in the art house circuit. It costs $20 a month or $160 for a year, the DVDs are yours to keep, and shipping is free. This is, to me, as clever as CD Baby, and…
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iTunes update redux
So as I was installing the upgrade to iTunes 4.9 this morning (with all the associated non-background actions it requires) I noticed something strange – a system restart is required after the installation. It made me reflect on how odd a system restart requirement is in the Linux / UNIX world for a userspace software…
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the Presidential address
I’m no longer resentful of the President and his embodiment of a closed-minded xenophobic, neophobic, religiously zealous, segment of the population. I just think he is pathetic. His entire message this evening was that of a shallow, simpleton defending his actions as successful and righteous in the face of overwhelming evidence of their ongoing failure…
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when worlds collide: oil, capitalism, and nationalism
OK, so a company in China is making a bid to buy a company in the United States. Seventy percent of the Chinese company is owned by the Chinese Government. The company in the US produces 167,000 barrels of oil an 1,826 million cubic feet of natural gas per day – both of which sound…
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yes, I know what to do with that screwdriver…
I have seen the insides of my iBook. I have seen what happens when a hard drive fails while you are logged in and using it. And I can tell you that the screws are that long for a reason, and that it is easy to to tear the ribbon cable that connects the touch…