Fourty-five years ago today, Ronald Reagan gave his magnificient speech “A Time for Choosing”, as part of a pre-recorded TV program. It was also then used as Goldwater’s nomination speech.
It was an awesome speech.  It’s even better when you make a few changes:

Remove the Goldwater references
Change references of “millions of dollars” to “billions of [...]

I’ve noticed, in reading many political posts on blogs over the years, that there is much confusion on the meaning of rights.  To set the table, I’ll define a right as something that can be assumed naturally.  As the Declaration of Independence says:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, [...]

Just got done spending 10 minutes adding twitter and bit.ly support to the wordpress engine.  This should probably quadruple my twitter output, which has, shall we say, been languishing.  So now I guess all my twits can get tweets when I blog.  Ain’t the internet grand?
Though, thinking about it, conceptually, it’s rather similar to tech [...]

… are now splittsville.  From a coolness factor, this sucks, I guess.  But, even though I use OS X as a workstation at work, it’s not like I’d ever be using ZFS there.  I do use it heavily on my servers though.   And this does explain the weirdness of less support in snow leopard (10.6) [...]

Cool. Just got done with a little email exchange with our resident graphics guru. Should have a new logo in the next few days, as time allows for him. Having seen his work and PS skills over the last 12 years, I’m certain it’ll be awesome.  Thanks old man!

Oh hell, call it climate change, AGW or whatever you want.  Ryan Young at globalwarming.org produced this bit:
This new religion is a piece of work. It comes complete with a deity (Gaia), clergy (activists), indulgences (carbon credits), and now, dietary restrictions.
Heh.  Too true.  Standard caveats apply (doesn’t apply to all activists, etc). On the [...]