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Legal, Laws, and Regs

Outweigh the rights of the many

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wrote and subsequently pulled a posting yesterday, about the Eldred vs. Ashcroft decision. I pulled the post because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to deal with the consequences of my writing. I knew that I was not following the ‘popular’ weblogging path in my post. However, I believe in what […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs

When the rights of one…

Update: Larry Stanton in my comments referred to posts by Jack Balkin about the First Amendment clause issue of Eldred vs. Ashcroft. This gentlemen is a constitutional lawyer specializing in first amendment law, and his posts on this issue, here, here, and here are rich reading — clear explanations from an expert’s viewpoint. As I said earlier, I know that […]

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Stuff

What kind of drugs would go with this light?

It’s the water In my comments, Scott pointed out the same lava light that Allan also covered in his weblog — the giant lava light project in Soap Lake. Seems the folks of Soap Lake, Washington have decided to build a 60 feet tall Lava Lamp. This has enormous appeal for me, not just because of my own lava lamp collection, but also because […]

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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

Hosting stuff

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I had some serious Perl/CGI/MT problems earlier and couldn’t post, and you all couldn’t access the comments. Not overly thrilled with my host at this moment, to be honest. Especially when I see indications of a machine that’s overly burdened. The problem with my host is the same problem with […]

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Just Shelley

More than a little down

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s funny, but everything worked out. Yes, I lost most of my stuff in storage when I finally had to just sell the contents. And that still causes me to wince a bit. Not as much as losing my beloved Zoe, years later. The California tax person I talked to […]