Swimming in the Pensieve

2006.09.11, Monday

It’s Already Been Said

Filed under: Spurrious Thoughts, The Pensieve, Top-View, Civics, Globalism — Allan @ 00:01:13

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…)

2006.09.09, Saturday

Taking Out the Trash

Filed under: Top-View, Civics, Globalism — Allan @ 15:01:15

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…)

2006.08.11, Friday

Your Help is Needed

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…)

2006.08.10, Thursday

Help the Starks Family.

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…)

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