Entries from December 2005

Monday, December 26th, 2005

The end of civil liberties

The president has declared that the “War On Terror” is a real war, and that in order to fight this war, he needs extraordinary powers to protect us. This rationale has been used before to validate the erosion of Civil Liberties. It has been used in places like Soviet Russia during the cold war, Italy [...]

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Oh, and before I forget

Happy Chanukah (don’t know if I’ll be on-line tomorrow)! And to all my Christian friends, Merry Christmas! And if anyone reading this celebrates Kwanzah, Happy Kwanzah! And to Bill O’Reilly and Pat Robertson, Happy Holidays and bite me Jackasses!

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

CSS-based web design vs. table-based web design

a little experiment gave me pause As I mentioned over on my Unit Circle Blog , I’m finally redesigning the Unit Circle Rekkids site. It must be at least 4-5 years since I last redid its look and I think it’s held together pretty good over that time, but it is definitely starting to look [...]

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Nice Daou report

My buddy Mike sent me a link to this article on salon which is just funny and sadly true about how Bush will survive the spying scandal just like he’s survived all the others… Also, he wanted me to have full posts in my RSS feed, so here is one.

Monday, December 19th, 2005

The house of representatives screws the American people and then head home to gloat about it

This is so disgusting that I almost don’t know what to say http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002692294_webcongress19.html There is so much insanity here, I don’t know where to begin. On it’s way out for the Christmas break, the house stayed up all night attaching evil amendments to important bills and cutting critical health and social programs. I don’t even [...]

Monday, December 19th, 2005

The president is spying on us

Again, the parallels between the current administration and communist-era Russia are almost frightening So the administration has been using the guise of the war on terror to spy on its own citizens. Is anyone surprised by this? This is exactly what everyone who was actually paying attention to the Patriot Act language said was going [...]

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

hey, remember these things?

mission accomplished, my ass The administration receiving many “F”s and “D”s from the 9-11 commission this week reminded me of a couple of other things that seem to have slipped out of the American memory banks. Hey, remember Osama Bin Laden? Remember how he was public enemy #1 after 9/11? Remember how we were going [...]

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Follow the bouncing ball

If you connect the dots between the various Bush Administrations failures, you can see the pattern emerge… Hurricane Katrina showed how devastatingly out of touch and how slow to action George Bush is, right? Maybe you’ll get this realization if you’ve never seen the timeline for President Bush on 9/11. Just as Bush waited days [...]

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Griffin Smart Deck Review

it sux owned it for less than two hours. It doesn’t work. Tracks jump in the middle without touching the cassette deck or iPod. Pressing FF or RWD sometimes doesn’t change tracks. Griffin really needed to test this thing before foisting it off into the market.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Consolidating chargers

Can I use one charger for everything? My Ipod charges over USB, my cell phone has a charger with a mini USB connector… Can I use the USB charging adapter for my iPod with my cellie?