Technically-minded people are evil. This includes myself. People who understand computers extensively are not evil for any moral reason, but instead because of a persistent need to compare and compete with the knowledge they have. People who understand computers flaunt their knowledge, try to impress others with it, and act as though no other methodology [...]
Monthly Archive for November, 2006
The new Bond movie is amazing
Posted in General on Nov 25th, 2006
It's probably the best Bond movie I've ever seen. It's much more realistic, much more brutal, much more action-packed, and still Bond. Daniel Craig is infinitely better than Pierce Brosnan could have ever been. The stunt men they hired for the film are incredible, too. And I especially loved the title sequence as well. As [...]
Some people amaze me
Posted in General on Nov 17th, 2006
Take a look at this newspaper article. Back home in Sheboygan, a 21-year old woman tried to use a counterfeit $20 bill to pay for cigarettes and a bag of chips at a small gas station. The attendant was able to recognize the money as falsified, and the woman is now facing charges of up [...]
So the effects of the movie V for Vendetta having been showing up the news lately. A group of protesters came up with some paperwork, called the "People's Petitions for Redress of Grievances," and sent two of them to DC to deliver as many copies as they could to the White House, the Department of [...]
I was disappointed to hear that the Wisconsin State constitution has been amended to ban gay marriage and civil unions, with a vote of 59% for and 41% against. Constitutions are made to protect personal freedoms, not limit them. But we live in a nation of fear and inadequacy. Ultimately, this ban isn't American, and [...]
Teh Internets
Posted in Coding on Nov 7th, 2006
First of all, in the news: Microsoft has finally finished playing catch-up. Internet Explorer 7.0 has been released. It is one of the "high-priority" Windows updates, so it should be installed automatically for you in the near future. However, since automatic updates are generally slow and unreliable, I recommend downloading it and installing it manually, [...]
For those of you totally aloof from politics, and for those of you who aren't from Wisconsin, let me introduce you to a proposed amendment that I recently voted on (absentee), here in the beautiful cheese state. What has been proposed is adding a bit that essentially says that gay marriage, or anything like it [...]