Seems like old times ...

Just checking to see if bitrot had eaten this old zombie blog.

No such luck.

Just passing through ...

Once again I couldn't just leave a comment, I had to sign up. This time it was more like I shipped over, since I already had an (old) blogspot account. Now it's the Google version, with one new (inconsequential) post.

Whoopie!

The Language of Pain

Its name is XSLT/X-Path.

Anime Up and Down

The up part is a show that is becoming the best vacation from seriousness I've found, Keroro Gunso.

On the other hand, down is too trivial a description of the at times crushingly sad Blood+. The series is well scripted and produced. The mood is sometimes warm, involving, heart-breakingly so, but often vicious, and explosively violent. Every episode shows what can happen to ordinary people when they become the targets of more powerful agencies that are absolutely sure that what they want is right.

The Right to Organize

is what keeps the leftist machine chugging along. More exactly, the union infrastructure is a machanism-in-place for rallying the troops, putting faces in cameras and noises in microphones for which there is no corresponding equivalent for citizens of centrist, libertarian, or conservative viewpoints.

Today's example: On Monday of this week the Labor Committee for Peace & Justice sent emails to their political operatives at union job sites, particularly public employee union shops, all over the Bay Area. The message was to show up for "Mass Protest Against Bush War Criminal" on Friday. The operatives in turn forwarded the emails to all the union members they could reach by email. Every SEIU member (for example) in the Bay Area who worked at a computer got the email that same day. If there were union members on site who didn't work at a computer, the ones who did were supposed to pass the word. Very efficient, and from the time the email got to a member of a public employee union, paid for 100% by the taxpayers of the State of California. That ca.gov network forwards email quite well. The printers in those government offices cranked out hundreds (thousands?) of copies of fliers, and all that paper and toner came from the taxpayers.

Inappropriate Response

I'll be adding an Introduction to UNIX class this evening. I need more transferable credits, and this looks like an easy 'A'. Part of the syllabus deals with creating and manipulating text files. I may be able to annoy the instructor by claiming that a common unix utility, head, was actually written by Patrick Henry. Remember the immortal words: Give me liberty, or give me ...

BAD Blog! -- No donut!

The Klutz Has Landed

As absurd as it may seem, I had to create a Blogger account just to post a comment on another blog.

This may give a hint of just how active I expect this blog to be ...

Update: 08 May 2006 -- And now the blog where I left a comment, Gigglegals, has been hijacked by a spammer! Absurdity squared and cubed!

NOTE: The blog I was looking for was gigglegals.blogspot.com, a.k.a. 'A Giggle of Gals'. It has nothing to do with the sleazy "We're not a porn site -- honest!" www.gigglegals.com.