If you haven't already seen Groklaw's Open Letter to SCO's CEO Darl McBride you should check it out when you get a chance.

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So here I am, at DefCon typing away on my brand new laptopI wiped the XP Media Center version that came with it and installed Linux, but I'm having trouble getting the build-in wireless to work, due to IRQ conflicts are difficult to fix because the laptop doesn't have a BIOS. Grumble ( Read more... )

In another blatant example of US hypocrisy, the US military is releaseing photos of particular dead Iraqi citizens. When they release video of our live soldiers it is a war crime, but when we release photos and x-rays of the bloodied corpses of their dead it is just good strategy.

Tonight I spent about 5 hours filing old drifts of paperwork that had accumulated over almost two years and cleaning up my desk. The filing is done but the desk is not yet clean. Bleh.

The pizza arbiter is fine for what it does, but it is overly simplistic.

What would be cool is an arbiter that allows users to enter their topping preferences and toppings they won't eat, then generate orders suitable for Pythagoras' Pizza Palace.

If you haven't already signed the petition at http://www.moveon.org/wmdpledge/ asking your Members of Congress to pledge to support an independent investigative commission on WMD evidence, please consider doing so now.

This evening I went to India Kitchen with elegantelbow and ilcylic. The menu lists the default spicy level of each dish on a scale of 1-10, and allows people to select a non-default value. I had the Chicken Vindaloo (10), which was excellent and sufficiently spicy. Those who know me will take this as the warning it is meant to be.

Copied from the libertarianism journal:
Abolish Marriage; Let's really get the government out of our bedrooms.

Uhg.

I've worked the last 7 hours instead of sleeping. ( Read more... )