The Economist has a story on the big sham election in Pakistan. A lot of people were willing to cut Pervez Musharraf slack when he supported the United States over the Taliban and started reigning in the Islamist lunatics in Pakistan’s intelligence services, but I don’t see how we can continue to give him [...]
Entries from April 2002
April 30th, 2002 · Comments Off
April 30th, 2002 · Comments Off
Here’s why I love K5. Today they published an article on cheap, healthy alternatives for making your own lunch. K5 is truly the ultimate site for the well-rounded geek.
April 29th, 2002 · Comments Off
First there was the 1900 House, and now there’s the Frontier House, another series that features modern people living in “the past.” In this case, it’s three families that were set up on Montana homesteads circa 1883. This series is fantastic … you’ll love to hate the rich, spoiled California family.
April 29th, 2002 · Comments Off
For some reason, I decided to start learning Python today. I think it has to do with some lingering dissatisfaction with Perl. For some reason the more I program in Java, the less motivated I feel to program in Perl. I’m not exactly sure why.
April 29th, 2002 · Comments Off
Bad news: IT salaries appear to be headed in the wrong direction.
April 29th, 2002 · Comments Off
Why is it that Republican foreign policy insists on remaining a caricature of itself? This weekend, forces working for Afghan warlord Bacha Khan launched several rocket attacks on Gardez, killing 50 civilians. Bacha Khan is also the guy who called in the US airstrike on the tribal elders heading to Kabul for the inauguration [...]
April 26th, 2002 · Comments Off
I learned at Media News that the Wall Street Journal is auctioning off a bunch of “hedcuts” (the pen and ink portraits that the WSJ uses) for charity on eBay. I don’t want illustrations of any of the freaks that they’re selling on my wall, but I’d like to get one done of myself. [...]
April 26th, 2002 · Comments Off
Lev Grossman blurbed Mozilla for Time this week. Ignore the piss poor description of open source.
April 26th, 2002 · Comments Off
The EPA is considering changing clean water rules to make it legal to dump mining waste generated by mountaintop removal coal mining into streams and rivers.
April 26th, 2002 · Comments Off
OK, here’s another bill we all have to fight. Fortunately, it was introduced by South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings, so we don’t have to do much analysis to know it’s bad news. It’s called the Online Personal Privacy Act (s.2201) and basically it legitimizes all existing spyware. Jerks.