Year 2005

Spammed Out

The timing could not have been better. I have not been posting anything for months on my site. I have quit school and started working so I am approaching life and the subjects that I used to write about from…

Limbo

I have been in internet limbo for the last week and then some. This is likely to continue for a little while, but things are moving fast and I should be back up and running soon (I hope).Just an overview…

The Iraqi Constitution

I have been very interested to hear about the progress on the Iraqi constitution. Naturally most of the commentary was about how bad the constitution was and how it was a step backwards for the US. I keep hearing about…

Can I Join Too?

I have to whole-heartedly agree with the thoughts of Alan Levine and D’Arcy Norman about the way reality TV is showing our decline from civilization.I think it is ironic that D’Arcy is offering to help buy an island to get…

Nomination and Confirmation

Well, we’ve had the name of John Roberts as the niminee for the opening on the Supreme Court bench for a couple of days now. I have tried to give myself some time to gather some information and draw some…

Moving

I have been looking for a long time to migrate to a new blogging platform. I thought WordPress looked promising, but it could not handle my multi-blog wishes (I am unwilling to install multiple copies of the software just to…

Odd Couple

I found this little oddity at AutoBlogger.net where there is a copyright notice including “All rights reserved” immediately before a Creative Commons License (BY-SA 2.0) giving away some of those rights. I have no problem with some rights, or even…

Cabinet Shuffle

Normally I don’t link to things where I have nothing to add, but this seemed like a good exception to make. From the New York Times OpEd Replace the Surgeon General position with the position of America’s Nurse. Another reason…

Predictions

Today has been a day for predictions. Competing predictions, in fact. I have read that Google will be gone in five years (thanks to Slashdot for the reference) and that the New York Times will go offline in 10 years because of Google. (thanks to Scott Adams for the reference) While all of this is speculation and fancy, it is not entirely unrelated to what is actualy happening in the world today. It has been an interesting romp through the web today.