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Site Updates

I’ve made a bunch of changes to the site. In addition to revamping the way the site is setup (breaking it up into parts, and modularizing everything to make the maintanence significantly easier) I’ve added some navigational aids and links. I’m working on integrating the “Movabletype”:http://www.movabletype.org powered blog aspects with some other items that I ...

Star Wars: The War on Terror

p. In response to new animated shorts about the Clone Wars coming out, a creative individual has produced the following retelling of the events in Star Wars in the context of the current war on terror. “Star Wars: Clone Wars” coming to Cartoon Network bq. CORUSCANT-Presiding over a memorial service commemorating the victims of the ...

Arnold Elected Governor

Arnold Schwartzeneggar was elected governor of California today (Arnold’s Campaign Website). With a fairly solid showing in terms of the electorate. It seems however, that people’s reaction to the recall was more one of disatisfaction with the current administration than a ringing endorsement of Arnold’s candidacy. It should be interesting to see how things shape ...

Software Customer Bill of Rights

In Cem Kaner’s blog: Software Customer Bill of Rights Cem Kaner discusses issues related to increasingly restrictive end user licensing agreements for various software, and how they are diverging from commonly accepted fair use rights for both software and other copyrighted works. Finally, he addresses issues of embedded software in items like automobiles, medical devices, ...

Gentoo Linux & MPlayer

I now have my Gentoo Linux setup almost completely functional. I’ve managed to get graphics, sound, and network sharing working. The only big tasks left are printing, and palm-pilot syncing. *ADDITION:* “MPlayer”:http://www.mplayer.hq is quite possibly the best media player I have ever seen. Both it’s ability to play almost any variety of media file that ...