An Opportunity to Do What is Both Right and Fiscally Sound
16 Jan 2011 3:55am GMT In politics, as in much of life, it is common to have to decide between what is right and what is easy. Usually the just and morally preferable option is also the difficult and expensive one, and the unjust and damaging option is cheap and easy. This of course leads to heavy wrangling, fretting, compromise, and confusion when attempting to pass legislation, as lawmakers have to deal with conflicting factors in trying to do what is right for people and trying to remain sensible with budgeting,...
Drivel lives!
22 Sep 2010 6:52am GMT I discovered today that the GTK blogging client Drivel is apparently seeing active development again. Nifty! See http://drivel.sourceforge.net/
Statelessness and the repeal of the 14th Amendment
11 Aug 2010 12:57am GMT The other day while discussing the latest racist proposals out of the Republican party, I pointed out that repeal of the 14th Amendment would create an increase in stateless persons. My dad did not believe this, so here is a list of situations that, to the best of my knowledge after a night's Googling, would result in a stateless person within the United States if the parents were immigrants to the US from the named countries (legally or not) and the child was born here: Both parents from...
My Review of Bending Branches Sun Shadow 14 Bent Shaft Paddle
24 Jun 2009 3:43am GMT REIWell-balanced and beautiful, this paddle features a 14-degree bent shaft for maximum paddling efficiency.Bending Branches Sun Shadow 14 Bent Shaft PaddleAn excellent paddle tonyyarusso Shoreview, MN 6/23/2009http://images.powerreviews.com/images/stars_small.gif); background-position: 0px -180px;" class="prStars prStarsSmall"> 5 5Gift: YesPros: Lightweight, Minimizes Fatigue, Comfortable ShaftBest Uses: TouringDescribe Yourself: RecreationalMy dad has had one of these paddles for a...
ACKing KompoZer brokenness in Ubuntu 8.10
12 Nov 2008 1:44am GMT Okay, for everyone out there who has been frustratingly reporting that KompoZer is broken in various ways in Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex", I just wanted to say, I know. That said, I do not know why or how to fix it. So, here's a little background and explanation of where things stand. First off, I should mention that not one bit of the actual kompozer package has changed in the latest release. That means no new code, no changes to the debian packaging format, nothing other than an automatic...