Archive for January, 2005

The Global Village

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

One night you awake to screaming from your neighbors house.  She’s being raped.  You quickly call the police to report the crime.  The police cruise by and tell the rapist, “don’t do that”.  Some of your neighors insist you should not get involved.
The next night the rapist returns and not only rapes the woman, but [...]

Iptables and Stupidty

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

Sometimes I’m an idiot.  Here’s proof…
My wife has been having occassional trouble sending email to a business associate through our server to AOL.  So this evening I sat down to figure out what was the problem.  I spent some time googling on “aol connection problems” and the like.  Eventually getting to an AOL web page [...]

Comments Fixed

Saturday, January 1st, 2005

The error in the comment posting code has been fixed.  Comment away!

Ass-Hat of the Week - David Morgan of Reuters

Saturday, January 1st, 2005

The sorry excuse for a journalist David Morgan of Reuters had this to say about the U.S.’s giantic aid package:
President Bush, under pressure over the pace and scale of American aid to Asian tsunami victims, abruptly raised the U.S. contribution tenfold to $350 million on Friday.

Pressure my ass.  The U.S. has always made an initial [...]