It’s two days before the big election, and like me, you may be wondering where you’re supposed to go to vote. If you live in Virginia, you can find out by visiting the Virginia State Board Of Elections. The form is a little particular and forces you to break up your street address but other […]
George Bush was voted year’s top film villian by readers of a british magazine. I really though Kim Jong-il would win it, but he’s a comic genius in Team America. Bush on the other hand, is really scary.
In business, a mantra you often hear is that you should “eat your own dog food”, but what’s the point if most of the pack doesn’t care if its mediocre dog food and can put up with picking out stuff they don’t want. Everyone doesn’t have to eat the dog food, just the people that
Two reasons – first, the realization that I’ve had this blog for a a year and five months, and having 45 minutes to kill on my way to and from work – made me wonder why I have this blog in the first place. I’d like to write for more than just my own interests.
As if this election weren’t important enough. If you need something more competitive to keep your interest in the outcome, Jason is running the The JWM 2004 Election Day Prediction Contest. The winner gets a a shiny new copy of the Political Game, President Forever The way to win the contest will be to most
Two new things you’ll notice on the left bar of my blog: The list of recent comments now includes the name of the person who made a comment. A form to subscribe to a weekly email of what I have posted to this blog. This is primarily for people who don’t use a syndication feed
It’s not a good week for New York teams in playoffs. Despite tying for the worst road record this season, DC United went to the Meadowlands today and beat the rival Metrostars 2 goals to nothing. The return game is at RFK next Saturday, where United enjoy one of the best home records in MLS.
This afternoon, I recklessly did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my desktop system. Something I should have previously learned not to do, since it’s broken a few things on me before. This time, after rebooting, the X server wouldn’t load. This has happened before, somehow the binary Nvidia kernel module would get hosed and I’d simply
Just found this out when I tried to burn a CD using xcdroast under the 32.6.9 linux kernel: 2.6.8 requires you to run as root (as others have noted). I have been unable to create any cd at all since 2.6.7 (as root or otherwise) so there is also some other bug hidden in there
Apparently not so good to have the Supreme Court naked in your book if you want Walmart stores to sell it. USATODAY.com – Behind the robes, Stewart finds controversy The book also has cutouts of the justices’ robes and urges readers to “restore their dignity by matching each justice with his or her respective robe.”