Cannon Fodder Day

In the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month … more deaths were reported in Iraq. As it was, shall it ever be: old men send in young men to … Read more

Batten Down the Hatches

Continuing the effort to fight against comment spam in this blog, I just installed, configured and tested the anti-comment-spam filter known as MT-Blacklist. A quick review of the system reveals some obvious weaknesses, … Read more

Between a Rock …

In addition to some insightful comments on the current Semantic Web Debate, Shelley offers up some mighty fine images of a mineral collection that’s taken years to assemble. The okenite image is very … Read more

Mac Terminal Tip

Note to self: if you’re trying to set a terminal’s name via “File->Set Title…” then by all means, please be sure that your /etc/bashrc file does NOT contain code similar to the following: … Read more

Today

I woke up to 6 porno spams in the comments section of this blog. Ugh. After removing them I determined I might as well wait for the not yet released v1.6 of the … Read more

Happy Halloween!

Lisa and Moneka had some fun and did a great job carving jack-o-lanterns from the pumpkins we grew this year: