Pirates. (Although we prefer the term Buccaneer Americans)

I’ve decided that I’m against software, music and movie piracy.
I wasn’t always.  Not that I was pro-piracy, I was just ambivalent.  I didn’t participate in it since I prefer higher quality music and movies so I bought CDs and DVDs.  I’m a proponent of open-source software and I use it wherever I can, so software [...]

Clixmix

My friend Maggie sent me these links. One of my favorite authors, Robert Jordan, is ill.

http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Features/03JordanLetter.html
http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=38
http://www.tor.com/jordan/
In better news, today is Friday and tonight is game night. We're heading over to Ryans for some gaming and hanging out. I've not been able to go to game night for a month now. It [...]

R for Rant

My fiend Dustin saw V for Vendetta last night. He reviewed it for us via email this morning and this is a line from that:
“Still, I found it to be unnerving when I realized I was rooting for what was in fact a terrorist, using terrorist-tactics to subvert the government. The movie [...]

Port in the Storm

I don’t like to use my powers for evil. OK, that’s not exactly true. But I don’t like to use my blog to talk politics. My basic view of politics is this: vote everybody out. I think that most politicians are screw-ups. They are self-centered, self-serving and usually they are not too bright. They are [...]