May 31st, 2005
More quotes
My random quote generator has more quotes (now at 530) and some new features. If you are interested in adding more quotes or adding topic/source information, let me know.
Archive for May, 2005
May 28th, 2005
White farmers reject Mugabe plea to return
The Telegraph:
White farmers evicted by Robert Mugabe’s government have reacted with contempt to an offer that they should return to Zimbabwe to take part in “joint ventures” with those who brutalised them and stole their land.Gideon Gono, the governor of the country’s central bank, suggested the idea last Thursday as a possible solution [...]
May 27th, 2005
Brit Insanity #52
In response to the knife proliferation caused by the gun ban, there is now a movement to ban kitchen knives in homes.
May 25th, 2005
Defending Usury
In response to a comment by a friend who pointed out that the Bible expressly forbids usury, (as do all major world religions) I wrote a paragraph for Wikipedia presenting an argument in defense of usury.:
The primary argument given in defense of usury is that charging
interest is essential to guiding the investment process, which
cannot be [...]
May 24th, 2005
Click it or Ticket and related propaganda
Have you noticed the Click it or Ticket commercials and billboards going up across the country? The message goes something like buckle up or pay: it saves lives Whose life is the state protecting? Presumably, it is the life of the previously un-buckled driver, as the commercials and billboards usually show young [...]
May 23rd, 2005
The DOJ versus e-mail
In the latest of a series of rulings, a federal judge has issued a $1.45 billion judgment against Morgan Stanley for not keeping records of email communications.
Partly in response to such rulings, many corporations now have detailed
email retention policies and keep years of email records. But this is a
lose-lose situation for companies: five years ago, [...]
May 22nd, 2005
New Photos
I took a two-day vacation this week and took a few photos along the way. Can you guess where?
May 16th, 2005
New Blog
Since this blog is used primarily for musings of philosophical and political matters, I have started a new blog for technical topics in particular, .Net web development. My first post is up, so if youre into that sort of stuff, check out Smart Design
May 15th, 2005
“The Whore Lived Like a German”
Brutal Islamic fundamentalism thrives in the pacifist multicultural culture of Germany:
five …Muslim women have been murdered in Berlin during the past four months by their husbands or partners for besmirching the family’s Muslim honor. Two of them were stabbed to death in front of their young children, one was shot, one strangled and a fifth [...]
May 3rd, 2005
A Review: Switching to Linux
After four years of using Windows XP, I decided to try something new. I had been getting by with Windows ever since I got a Windows 95 PC in high school, but I was getting bored with the same old look.
The Requirements
I had a number of strict requirements for any potential replacement [...]
May 2nd, 2005
Focus Foundry
Tom Lahti, the owner of the #Objectivist IRC channel where I can be frequently found lurking just started a blog. Check out Focus Foundry’s first post: “Sex!”