Archive for October, 2003

SCO vs. the GPL

Wow, SCO has launched a legal assault on the GPL, the license that governs a lot of open source code including Linux. I am really surprised–it seemed they had a decent claim on the copyright/intellectual property issues but why are they now assaulting the very foundation of open source software?
I don’t think SCO is […]

Male cheerleaders coming to the Warriors

Okay, now I’m definitely glad I moved from California–the pitiful Golden State Warriors are going to give male cheerleaders a try. Now I’m not opposed, it’s just that they’re intentionally going for the joke by recruiting stereotypical overweight couch-potato types to be in the squad.
I think that’s a nasty jab at the current cheerleaders, who’ve […]

Food Thief

For years, CNET’s office in San Francisco has been plagued by a food thief. Many many of us have complained over the years, but nothing happened. Then today, out of the blue, we get an email from the head of HR, touting the fact that they have caught somebody and dealt with it appropriately.
The […]

Solar flare to reach Earth

This huge solar flare could disrupt all sorts of telecommunications and navigation systems when it reaches Earth later today. The majesty of God’s creation at work.
Sometimes it’s good to be reminded of our insignificant place in this universe.

US intelligence on Iraq was faulty

Wow, if this Senate Intelligence Committee report turns out to be true, the intelligence used to justify the war on Iraq was erroneous. Lots of single-source claims and just really sloppy work.
I hope this isn’t true. I’m not a huge fan of the war, but it did serve a greater purpose in removing Saddam Hussein. […]

SF politics

Ah yes, I am so going to miss San Francisco politics. Seems Supervisor Daly took advantage of Mayor Brown’s absence to do some pocket appointments to the PUC.
God that is so ballsy. almost a mini-coup type of thing. Willie Brown deserves it, he’s such a machine politician. Besides, if you’re dumb […]

Lack of global news

Sometimes I think the US media is too focused on just US affairs. I mean, this impending dust-up between Ukraine and Russia looks mighty serious, yet I don’t see mention of it anywhere in the US press. The BBC of course covers it, they always seem to do a better job of looking […]

Roadtrip pix

Finally got together my photos from the SF-to-Louisville road trip. One thing surprised me–for such a nice-looking application as iPhoto, it sure produces a rather plain ugly export doesn’t it? There has to be a way to get it to export into a nicer template than this plain-jane one that it defaults to.

Whither Macintosh?

Okay, so yesterday Apple unveiled a Windows version of iTunes. Now the problem for me is that one of the reasons I keep a Mac in my office, in addition to the PC I use, was that I love iTunes. So my Mac was kinda primarily a music server. Though it does serve second duty […]

Mixed-up curses

Damn, I got my curses all confused. The Bambino thing is the Red Sox, not the Cubs.
Doesn’t matter I guess, the Cubs lost anyway. What a horrible end. That poor Cubs fan who cost them Game 6 is gonna by stygmatized forever. At the very least he’ll probably have […]