Archive for July, 2008

Bush gets loose in Houston

July 23rd, 2008

Aww, he’s almost cute when he’s not so painfully censoring himself.
Also, Top 25 Iraq war profiteers, rather interesting; companies from necessary to evil got on this list.
Made it bike in to work without getting hit with a drop of Dolly. I bought a translucent coleman $10 rain suit at target yesterday just in case. [...]


Stop it Bush Jr. you’re scaring the children

July 22nd, 2008

I caught the video on the ever present CNN news feed at my girlfriend’s mom’s house. But let’s hear it from the inimitable Harper’s Weekly:
President George W. Bush announced that he would now agree to a withdrawal inside “a general time horizon,” rescinded a 1990 ban on offshore drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf [...]


Science: The most expensive thing to see on the WWW?

July 16th, 2008

Tonight I was looking at the Public Knowledge Project and it’s Open Journals Initiative software platform (note see the end for the more comprehensive list at DOAJ). Besides the a bit navel gazing but well known and well written First Monday (e-journal about the internet), the best ones I found most interesting and readable [...]


Technical assistance request for Designer Shoe Warehouse

July 16th, 2008

File under comic relief.
Background: I have perhaps bought 2 or 3 pairs of shoes for myself from the 70% off section of Designer Shoe Warehouse in my life. They at some point cajoled me to sign up with an email address. I signed up with myemailaddress+dsw@gmail.com. Specifically so I could filter them [...]


Well FISA ‘08 passed, it’s time to revisit PGP (GnuPG)

July 9th, 2008

Well, in 1999 or so, I was probably trying to get PGP working with Gnus in Emacs. In 2000/2001 I was probably trying to get gnupg (GPG) working with Mutt. Somewhere between then and now I probably had it working with Thunderbird. Now I’ve got it working with Gmail, GnuPG, FireGPG and [...]