It’s All Personal

There is a fundamental sin behind the notion of corporations as legal persons. Human nature is such that, if we can dodge our individual culpability, we will. Until the consequences fall upon our personal heads, we do not change what we do. While it’s also true of government figures, that’s just an extension of the [...]

Great Ride in the Snow

There are good rides, and I have plenty of them. Most of my 10-milers into town are good, the rest are pretty decent. Only a couple in the four months so far have been very unpleasant.
Then there are great rides. Here in Central Oklahoma we got only a little of the ice, and lots of [...]

The Law of Stupidity

There was a time I would sit here at my computer with my mouth agape over some new expression of folly. After awhile, I got more used to it. So common is the lack of “common sense,” I’ve given up on expecting to see much of it. Instead, I find there are times when I [...]

One Last Chance

Regret.
It echoed in his mind, with the not-quite-painful thud each time the back of his head rocked against the wall behind him. It occurred to him the rail beds were in no better shape than any other public infrastructure. Thus, the freight cars rocked back and forth without any regularity in rhythm or depth, but [...]

Best Audio CD Player on Lenny: Amarok

I love playing good classical music when I’m trying to think. Notice I don’t claim to actually succeed at thinking, but I do succeed at listening to music.
It works best if you can find something capable of doing it consistently. It seems different on every distro I try. So here we are on Debian [...]

Israel and Gaza: Just a Sideshow

My time in the limelight has faded; the tools here on this blog indicate very few visits the last couple of days. I’ve had my 15 minutes it appears, and only a precious few friends are likely to read this. It never mattered in the first place, because this blog is nothing more than my [...]

CompSec: Another Doomsday Virus

I’m not a mindless fanboy. There are things about Linux which fail. Just now, as I was doing some research on this post, I ran into a website which caused a race condition on my Lenny box. I had to start closing tabs one by one until the CPU meter dropped to a normal level. [...]

Bible Logic — Like Nothing Else

Over the past few years, as I began to apprehend the logic behind the Bible, I realized increasingly just how difficult it is to put into words. That is, all my years of training and experience in writing with clarity, translating difficult concepts into more common terms, I find myself utterly at a loss for [...]

The Net: Shared Resources and Trust

In a certain sense, there is no law on the Internet. Sure, there are things you can do with the Internet which will get you in trouble with some governments, but that’s invariably a matter of governments protecting their prerogatives from the Net’s freedoms. As I understand it, the procedures for avoiding most governments’ notice [...]

Personal Preference: Debian Lenny AMD64

A couple of months ago, one of my clients asked me why I liked Linux so much. We discussed things we liked and disliked about various operating systems. This was no clueless user, but she was searching the options for finding something that was less work than XP. She knew enough to realize it was [...]