Although Immigrants is used in the headline, Immigrants May Be Held Indefinitely, from reading the article it appears this applies to non-citizen immigrants. Or does that mean you’re not an immigrant anymore once you’re a citizen. Not that it matters anymore, if the President says your an enemy combatant, you rSOL and can be disappeared. […]
A more eventful week than I would have preferred, as a fever forced me to leave work early on Tuesday. Bed rest and little else were the order of the day through Wednesday. Yesterday, Pete called to let me know he finally got engaged to Melissa. Although hes had the ring for a few weeks
Dad passed me along the link to the slashdot discussion of Microsoft’s partnership with Novell. (Usually, its me sending him the slashdot link). On the face of it, the major part of the announcement concerns patent rights MS holds – specifically that it will not assert them against open source developers. The Technology Liberation Front
As usual, For the Integrity of Soccer has a sobering, insightful, and depressing review of the quality of officiating in Major League Soccer. As an avid fan, the lack of improvement in this area has been stark in comparison to the progress the league has made on other fronts over the last decade. The reason
Firefox 2 comes out tomorrow (Tuesday) and IE7 is slower rendering some pages, particularly if they use AJAX, than Firefox.
Despite using the phrase "Stay the course" repeatedly to differentiate his policy from those who would "cut-and-run" in Iraq, President Bush is now revising history saying "We’ve never been stay the course, George!". Watch the interview with George Stephanopoulos.
Of course, you know I’m going to tell you to install Firefox 2.0 once its released, and I don’t have a windows XP machine so no trying out the newly released IE7. By the way, did you see that security vulnerabilities were already found for IE7, less than 24 hours after its release? I’m using
If crazy people would just stop doing insane things, then maybe we wouldn’t use them to refer to crazy stuff. From Nobody’s Business: Poor, Misunderstood Leatherface. The National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, is unhappy with pop-culture depictions of psychopaths and serial killers.
Who’s the genius who thought making students wear color-coded IDs was a brilliant idea? To foster a “sense of identity and security”, you should divide people into separate groups. As if there aren’t enough ways for students to form into cliques all on their own. I especially abhor making ESL students where yellow – if
Scott Rosenberg draws an interesting parallel between Microsoft’s attempt to rewrite Windows, and the Bush administration’s foray into Iraq. Of course, the two aren’t morally equivalent, but its a good intellectual excercise with more than a shred of validity. Then he says, “It wasn’t executed.” Note the passive voice, correct for it: “We didn’t execute