Swimming in the Pensieve

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/03/amish.shooting/index.html

There has to be a God, for it is not possible that evil like this could go unpunished.

On a day like today, one remembers where one was when he or she learned that the world possess the kind of evil–crouched cowardly and hypocritically behind false religious rantings–that takes delight in the murder of unarmed civilians.

Such perpetrators–indeed, Bin Laden, himself–are the most cowardly among the lowest of cowards. (more…)

It isn’t often that SPAM even makes it into my local Trash mail directory anymore, but it does happen.

It’s now an opportunity to have a bit of fun before I put a new set of filters on the mail server. (more…)

OK. I’m posting the contents of a page to which I’m linking to from things like sig-lines, and to which I’m pointing others in my quest to make generally known the needs of a family in Austin, Texas. It’s a ‘for the sake of completeness’ type of thing, because of a couple of points that I hadn’t raised earlier, just in case you’re wondering about the obvious repetition. (more…)

The situation which has prompted this entry is tragic and, for your reference, I’m going to bracket the antecedent interval of concern with a couple of links to pages that I urge you to read fully; then give serious consideration to the matter of helping a member of the Linux Community, Ken Starks (aka: Helios).

First link: http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/2005/09.html

Second link: http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/2006/08.html

…and now, for those who are loathe to read the linked pages, I’ll give you a bit of a thumbnail sketch of what is going on with Ken. (more…)

BBC news just posted this article, entitled, Microsoft opens up on file styles; which I presume to actually be speaking to microsoft’s closed, binary, undocumented file formats which they have, heretofore, refused to disclose to the world.

Some snippets from the article really do require some clarification: (more…)

They really do!

Please read this BBC article about the development of RSI in children who engage in, among other things, too much SMS messaging (more…)