Looks like my dad picked a bad time to visit the motherland: Thousands took to the streets in the capital, chanting anti-government slogans and demanding the president resign despite his announcement Monday that he will shelve controversial plans for natural gas exports. The plans to sell gas to the United States and Mexico had already […]
Courtesy of my friend Sandy: It’s the story of Carol Mosley who was bringing up 3 white men on her own all of them were congressmen the youngest one was old She met a man by the name of sharpton who had three pols of his own and they knew they must somehow beat up
One year ago, I was tooling around Paris. In 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia. More events
Count me in this group of developers who wish Microsoft would fix their broken Internet Explorer. I also wish all you people out there still running IE 5.5 would upgrade too! But Zeldman warned against wishful thinking, noting that with hundreds of millions of people using Internet Explorer around the world, it would take more
Jeremy Zawodny has a piece on new, custom Yahoo Search Feeds. This looks great not only for tracking high profile issues lots of people are interested in, but also for digging up news you might not otherwise find. However, looks like if there are no results, instead of getting an empty feed you get a
As a DC United and MLS fan, I was pretty worried about the league two years ago when it decided to contract its 2 Florida based teams. It’s incredible how things have changed since then! The year we had another soccer-specific stadium openened in LA, another breaking ground in Dallas, and plans for the same
I’ve just finished upgrading my sister’s pc, which we use to share a dial-up connection, to Mandrake 9.1. ( Yes-dialup, I’m 2 miles from AOL’s headquarters and the closest to broadband that I can get is wireless or satellite.) I can’t say that the install was a piece of cake – the installer crashed on
Just a few weeks ago, I dedicated some time to updating and upgrading my bolivian soccer news site which I’d neglected since March. Well, back in March i decided to start scraping the news section from some fo the online, Bolivian newspapers and linking to the stories on the right. After my redesign, I checked
The arcade cabinet frame put together after the first weekend of cutting the panels and 2x2s. A peek through the door on the front at the PC powering the whole thing. Its my old Athlon-400 that got me through grad school. A look at the top half of the cabinet. I need to make a
Interesting summary of what to look for in a linux NIC beyond the price is here. I wish I’d looked at that earlier. I’m currently installing Mandrake 9.1 on my sister’s PC. Because her CD drive wouldn’t read the Mandrake iso’s I’d burned, I ended up having to do a net install from my PC