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Join me, won’t you, as we blog twenty or so years into the future. By now, your children will have gleaned through your tenured, compulsive, writing and linking “achievement” and gotten to know you as the self-indulgent, if not self-delusional, practitioner of quasi-liberal and/or quasi-neo-conservative ranting that you find so annoying in others.

And although […]

As far as this geeks knows, Portland, Oregon has never really been considered a hotbed for cool. But if anyone stands a chance at turning that unfortunate truism around, it’s the Dandy Warhols. This rock band from the Pacific Northwest is a satisfying blend of rock, pop, harmony, and hypnotic haziness. In […]

In a thread at MacCentral entitled DHS had little choice but to sign Microsoft deal, one articulate poster had this to say about why the Department of Homeland Security should have considered open source (as an alternative to Windows):

The transparency of open source is what provides its security. The idea is to throw daylight on […]

Chalk this one up to my own ignorance. Having recently upgraded to pMachine Pro 2.3, I thought it would be nice to give pMpost another try, seeing that my last attempt was a bust.

Using the program for only 5 minutes, I took it upon myself to email Elwin Zuiderveld, the creator, with some suggestions […]

Anyone who doubts if The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen can live up to the comic book should stop their worrying right now. I saw this movie today and thought it was highly entertaining, probably even better than the comic. The casting, effects, and action sequences all worked… well, extraordinarily.