Go read Sandy’s Schiavo Notes. And in a related bit, House Majority Leader Tom Delay and his family in 1988 chose not to connect their father to dialysis machine after an accident and instead allowed him to die in peace. Tom Delay helped push through the extraordinary legislation trying to overturn the findings of Florida’s […]
That’s what I immediately thought on my way home tonight when I heard that students at Georgetown had staged a hunger strike to protest the wages paid to university Janitors. Now, I’m not against anyone getting paid or getting a raise but this incident smacks more of self-righteous, feel-good whiny Liberalism than anything else. It’s
A recent survey shows that Americans’ download media files from both approved and, well, less approved sources in about equal proportions (found on Smart Mobs ). An even more interesting statistic is that 48% of respondents cited using other sources, such as aim and email, than online stores and p2p networks. Coupled with that news,
It’s been over a week since the announced deal between Tivo and Comcast was announced. The partnership is definitely a lifeline for Tivo and hopefully the company can reinvigorate their product with innovations. Pessimists might say that is not looking very probable as it seems that the company would rather court the favor of media
So, we’ve all pretty much agreed that the Bush Administration ignoring unwanted science is about on par with "dog bites man" in terms of news worthy, right? This MSNBC story however documents the lies and denial that are involved when you’d rather hush up a Harvard study paid for by the EPA on the costs
I’ve held off on writing about my Nokia 6600 until the initial gadget shine wore off. I’ve recommended it to my friends, including Jason who’s already written about it. This is the smart phone written about on Slate. My friend Dave, who’s also a recent Mac convert, told me he used the iSync devices page
I haven’t written about Tivo’s TivoToGo features, even though I got the upgrade around mid-February. My Series 2 Tivo now serves web pages wirelessly to my home network showing what files it has on its hard drive. With any machine, linux/mac/windows, I can browse their interface and download files. At first I was really excited
I finally got my first honest piece of comment spam today and I feel so privileged. It must be some sort of sign that you’ve made it when someone figures out how to spam your very own built-from-scratch blogging scripts. Either that or there are a lot of scum-scking spammers with too much time on
There are some very interesting new features in the upcoming OpenOffice 2.0 release. The new database component will be very interesting indeed, especially if it can compete against Microsoft Access – the database development platform of choice for the technophobic. I’ve found its spreadsheet and work processing app to be more than competent in Linux
When setting up a Cyrus IMAP server and you want to use a MySql database to hold user names and passwords, you must use the mysql module for PAM to authenticate because it can handle passwords that are stored using crypt ( the ENCRYPT function in mysql ). While there is also the aux_prop plugin