I just published two new stories related to the Front Range Equine Rescue et al v. Vilsack et al horse meat lawsuit. In Cages at Burningbird I write that the USDA is not the enemy in this case and they aren’t. If we’re going to fight for the welfare of horses in this country, we need to […]
Month: September 2003
Both David Weinberger and AKMA wrote thoughtful responses to what is becoming a delicate and I think extremely interesting debate about religion, belief, and acceptance. Not an easy subject, and one must keep in mind that ‘ware, there be cacti here. I want to respond but I am off and away to drink the funny milk shake and glow […]
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Passive resistance
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sometimes I think we technical folk are too clever for our own good. The more gimcracks we put into out tools, the more gimcracky things crawl through. We tweak just to tweak, and add far more moving parts to applications than are needed, or even desired. In addition to making […]
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Using Google against us
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The vig-rx blog virus, otherwise known as comment spammer, is using Google against us. After stealing another IP address, as expected. Weblogs being targeted are being found through a Google search. Example is here. Aren’t open web services a wonderful thing? Go ahead – all open comment MT weblogs on this […]
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A tale of two festivals
Normally I don’t attend festivals with lots of people about, but I made exceptions for two events this weekend: the St. Louis Air Show and the Japanese Festival. The weather was wet and stormy, but held off raining for the most part. However, it was very hot, very humid, and there was little breeze. I […]