Apr 20 2005
The state of Texas is looking into banning gay and bisexual people from being foster parents. Because, you know, they feel homosexuality is icky, and counter to their religious beliefs. Which is a perfectly good reason, in their minds, to deny children what are probably perfectly good homes. Because heterosexual couples are somehow better and …
Apr 18 2005
Yes, yes, I am also Microsoft's bitch. Whatever. I love me some PowerToys, but I'm an idiot and failed to back up my old-school PowerToys this last time I wiped my computer. So things like the handy-dandy ISO burner and the fabulous background switcher were lost to me! Because the latest official PowerToys release does …
Apr 18 2005
According to a passenger who was aboard a cruise ship that was "struck by a freak seven-story-high wave" (msnbc.com), "'It looked like the Titanic.'" Ok. And he would know how, exactly? The article mentions that this man (Robert Clark) was traveling with his wife and 7-year-old daughter. Which means, in all probability, this guy's mother …
Apr 11 2005
The single largest obstacle to information security is not Microsoft holes, nor spyware, nor viruses. It's people. Stupid people. Recently some 98,000 social security numbers were stolen from UC Berkeley. How? It wasn't hackers. It was some dumbass who left a laptop that had these numbers on its hard drive in an unlocked office. My …
Apr 07 2005
My car came with a few systems that protect it from theft: door locks, purple paint, automatic nothing (except transmission), and the fact that it's a 1996 Hyundai Elantra. But today, by accident, I thought of another. I left a bottle of Febreze in my car. So now potential thieves know that it's a purple …
