Wednesday, January 18, 2012
You want to stop the RIAA and MPAA? It’s really this simple. Stop buying RIAA-produced music. Stop buying movie tickets to MPAA-produced movies. Stop supporting the content industry in general, who produces vapid mind-rotting “culture” and abuses artists and technical people alike. 10% of us doing this would do more to hurt the industry than [...]
Thursday, December 29, 2011
When you think about it, it’s almost comical, because we’re not even aware we won. “But wait,” I hear you cry, “how can you say we won when Christmas is everywhere.. starting from Halloween until .. well, Christmas Day!” That’s exactly the point. Christmas has become a one-day holiday for the vast majority of Americans. [...]
I have a new PGP/GPG key. It should be on all the good servers as 0x89e4f4d9. It’s also ASCII-armored under the cut.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Today, I got this interesting postcard in the mail. Here in the wild-and-wooly Territory of Clackamas County, we have a levy on property taxes that pays for the Sheriff’s Department. Since I live in the incorporated City of Oregon City, and in an apartment, we can debate how much I really need to care about [...]
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Just a quick note on something I just observed. Google is getting better and better at the sort of UI tweaks that I’ve come to expect from Apple. Maybe Google did this months ago and it was just so subtle that I just now noticed it, but if you look at the “mode change” box [...]
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Apple’s announcements yesterday? Color me unimpressed. And another thing. All the analysts that are calling the Kindle Fire “not an iPad killer” are totally missing the point. If the Kindle Fire does 80% of what an iPad can do and costs 40% of the price, it is an iPad killer. Just like Android hasn’t been [...]
First off, thanks to a lot of you beautiful, wonderful people I’m back in some kind of financial position where things aren’t all screwed up. You know who you are, and thank you. Your help has gotten me to the point where I can get some of the things I need done without having to [...]
Seattle Sunday, Monday, and early Tuesday, for those who may be interested.
Today I’m supposed to be heading out to Bakersfield and points south. It’s really hard to leave: I still love San Francisco. Went down to Weird Stuff Warehouse yesterday, which was fun. Also got to hang out a bit with a couple of friends. Into the abyss known as the Central Valley…
Okay, just one of those bloggy updates about where I’m at and what’s going on. On Thursday I started driving south, and wound up in San Francisco. Been spending the last couple of days immersing myself in the city I love. On Friday I did a little whirlwind tour: Fisherman’s Wharf, the Musee Mecanique (and I [...]
