One of the most active left wing folks around my part of the world is Kalamazoo City Commissioner Don Cooney. Cooney’s sort of a left wing institution around here and when he was elected to the city commission several years ago, the local paper quoted a local Republican official as saying something to the effect…
March, 2004
-
-
According to this Boston Herald story, 38-year-old Weldong Xu scammed friends and co-workers out of more than $600,000. He claimed he was raising the money to help launch a SARS research institute in China, but he allegedly pocketed the money. Well, not quite. According to police, Xu decided to parlay his scam into big winnings…
-
My laptop is being returned to HP for service, and so I will not have regular access to e-mail, IM, etc. until early next week.
-
More promised photos (and more still to come) from the March 20th anti-war protest in Ann Arbor sponsored by the U-M Anti-War Action, the Ann Arbor Area Committee for Peace, and Veterans for Peace. These first two photographs tried to draw odd fantasy/sci-fi links to the invasion of Iraq: Hey, you got Rodenberry on my…
-
This intellecutal property gone awry story had me laughing out loud — apparently these idiots have patented subdomains and are sending letters to some web hosting firms demanding that they license the subdomain patent or cease and desist assigning subdomains. Source: Subdomain Patent Sparks Concerns. Dennis McCafferty, Web Host Industry Review, March 26, 2004.
-
Today (and likely tomorrow) were moving day(s). Not for my living quarters, but rather for my data. The 60 gig hard drive on my laptop was beginning to strain under the 50 gigs of e-mail, documents, photographs and other digital epherma that I’ve produced and collected over the last 20 years, so I finally broke…
-
As promised on Monday, here’s the first group of pictures I took this weekend at an anti-war protest in downtown Ann Arbor. The protest started in downtown Ann Arbor and so many people gathered there that police had to shut down the block for about 40 minutes or so until the march to the University…
-
Bulent Yusuf has an excellent look at the intersection of file sharing and comic books. The short version is that pretty much any comic book you might want to read is available on the Internet — illegally, of course. No, what the comics industry has to do is think of another solution to the problem.…
-
Marjolein Hoekstra has started a blog dedicated to one of my favorite Windowss utilities, Active Words. Hoekstra has obviously spent a great deal of time with the program and has some great ideas for squeezing the most out of ActiveWords.
-
I had to laugh out loud today when reading that EU ministers had condemned Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Sheikh Yassin as “unacceptable.” British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said, [Israel has a right to defend itself] But it is not entitled going for this kind of unlawful killing and we therefore condemn it. It is…