BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Shannon writes, people are mean in response to a particularly nasty posting and related comments. She’s right: people can be mean, practicing random acts of meanness. Sometimes, the acts are deliberate — nasty little cuts inflicted from the safety and distance that this disconnected environment provides. Mostly, though, the acts aren’t deliberate as […]
The states bordering Missouri have been blasted by some unusual weather including an outbreak of tornados. It was interesting watching the storms fold around St. Louis, leaving us virtually untouched. This city really is located in a sweet spot, escaping most of the weather outbreaks, at least for now. The only impact on us was […]
Originally published at O’Reilly onlamp.com, recovered from the Wayback Machine. It used to be that Unix was for the geeks, while the rest of the world used less command-intensive, and usually less powerful, operating systems such as Windows or the Mac OS. Even with the advent of native GUIs such as the X Window system, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Contrary to rumor, I did not flee beyond the borders of my country following last week’s abysmal election, even after hearing the details of the new Republican agenda. It wouldn’t matter if I did — no matter where I went, my country would be sure to follow. Especially if the country I […]
Today’s most critical to-do item is voting. I have my prepared card of how I want to vote on each issue and for each person, as well as my voter registration card and my polling place card. Missouri had a lot of problems with the last elections, so there will be several monitors about making sure […]