NPR is going to talk about the Webby Awards in a minute. I think I’ll bail out of here and listen in the shower. Then on to work. We’re putting up more ‘safety fence’, that orange fence you see at … Continue reading →

Thats all I have in me for tonight. My thesis is bordering on coherent. On my way down to bed. Be well. GAO demands list of Cheney’s energy industry contacts. It just keeps getting more and more interesting. Nice pics … Continue reading →

Happy Birthday to Shelly Bowman, the Optimist! Cool. Doug and Erehwon Notebook are back. That is interesting. I tried to flip the page from work, but it just kept loading the homepage at the 14th. I now suspect that our … Continue reading →

Defcon #9 is in town. A friend from loudcloud is attending it. Wired has a story on the changing face of the conference. Hackers in Suits? Gadzooks!. Nine years after its inception, that hacker bacchanalia in the desert known as … Continue reading →

That is enough for today. My In-Laws are coming into town tomorrow with scant notice, I shall have to cry thesis! and let slip the dogs of …, er …, thesis finishing. Yahoo Op-Ed by Robert Scheer: Do As We … Continue reading →

I spent much of the day wrestling with several map projections in Arcview making figures for my thesis. Map projections fascinate me, but when you share your data it should be noted in the metadata (there is that word again!) … Continue reading →

The Adventures of RageBoy and BadMan. via Doc One question that has been posed to me is a familiar one, I’m sure we have all asked ourselves this at one time or another. I have not thought about it for … Continue reading →

One of the benefits (and there are many) to finishing the thesis is that I am starting to get feeler calls about my future plans. It is really nice to have employment options… More after I get a bite to … Continue reading →

I have got to get back to making some more illustrations and trying to wring some coherence out of my turgid thesis writing. Be well. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment As Mass Deception. via (yet again) wood s lot Andrea is … Continue reading →

We had a glorious rain today. Not the little desert sprinkles we typically get, but a real thunder and lightning gully washer. At one point I was standing next to a window in a committee member’s office on the third … Continue reading →