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Thoughts swirling…

Fedora 8 comes with this nifty little “Post Blog Entry” application. Nice, but it assumes that all WordPress blogs are in a subdirectory named “wordpress” on the server. There’s a way around it, but still. Anyway, lets see how this … Continue reading →

One of my friends asked me why I hadn’t written about the recent publicity surrounding the [AACS Processing key](http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=09+f9+11+02+9d+74+e3+5b+d8+41+56+c5+63+56+88+c1&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) that’s proliferating on various blogs, news sites, t-shirts, and songs. Part of the reason is, of course, that I’m lazy. As … Continue reading →

So here’s a story about a man who “stole” a school bus to drive refugees to the Astrodome. Contrast that with the reporting on Channel Four in the UK of a white middle class man who “found” an abandoned boat on the side of the road and used it to rescue people from his town. Continue reading →

The judge ruled that the police violated the man’s first amendment rights and awarded him 35k in damages. The professional media seems to have given up on acting as government watchdogs, this role is going to fall more and more on private citizens. Continue reading →