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I have purged most of political weblogs from my Bloglines account since the election, but there are a few that I do still read. One of my favorites is Winning Argument, which is brilliant in both concept and execution. If you’re not reading it, you should be.

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Most developers I’ve worked with lately take advantage of open source software when they can to make their jobs easier. Using somebody else’s library to parse XML or to connect to an HTTP server or manage a database connection pool is a lot quicker than writing that stuff yourself, and is probably more likely to [...]

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Here’s how John Ashcroft signed off as Attorney General:

The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

Obviously this is just wrong. If that were the case, we would have never even had a 9/11. And as far as I know, crime still exists. But more importantly, doesn’t this diverge from [...]

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Firefox 1.0 is out today, and the download site actually seems to be working pretty well.

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Howard Zinn: The Optimism of Uncertainty. Something actually encouraging.

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So in the process of dealing with last Tuesday, I came to an important realization, and it actually made me feel a lot better. It’s pretty obvious, but I think a lot of people are having trouble getting there. I know I was. Here it is: I’m not responsible for getting Democrats elected. There are [...]

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So I was thinking yesterday about Republicans and how they vote for candidates that share their values (or profess to) rather than voting in their economic self interest. There’s a whole book that was written about this phenomenon, and plenty of liberals think that middle class and lower middle class Republicans are stupid for placing [...]

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Well, I don’t feel any better than I did yesterday, although I did get a full night’s sleep. Yesterday, the adjective I used to describe my general emotional state was “shattered.” I honestly don’t feel any better today. Honestly, as an American, I don’t know where to go from here. When Bush was “elected” in [...]

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Tim Bray answers a serious question that I would have liked to have asked today. The question: what’s it like to live in Canada?

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Jim Kuntsler says it all:

We couldn’t form a plausible opposition to those who act as if the future doesn’t exist.

Or, if you prefer, Adlai Stevenson said it all when, at an event during the 1956 Presidential campaign, a woman shouted, “You have the vote of every thinking person!” Stevenson shouted back, “That’s not enough, madam, [...]

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