Can the Republicans win this election without sliming the Democrats? Apparently not. I was in San Francisco this week trying to find an apartment, and when I got back, I had 11 messages on my answering machine. Now, being a loser, they’re all from campaigns, and it’s interesting to note the tone of each. The [...]

Just read a great article by Ole Eichhorn called the tyrrany of email that provides some really good ground rules for dealing with the constant interruption that email causes. I see most of his points, but at the end he says: In re: working on “fun” stuff instead of “hard” stuff, it is interesting to [...]

It’s not outright lying, but Bush’s assertion that Kerry raised taxes 98 times pushes the limit of honesty. You can see that this figure includes cloture votes, and counts separate votes for the same bill. It also includes beneficial tax increases that were used to balance the budget. Read about it here.

Paul Tyma is my new frenemy. It all started when my server crashed. I was trying to re-build it as quickly as possible, and fussing with apache, trying to get it working. I wasn’t familiar with Debian Linux, so it was tough going even though I’m very familiar with apache’s somewhat cryptic configuration file format. [...]

I got fired about two months ago. Ostensibly it was because of ‘poor work quality’ but I’m going to go out on a limb and say it was because my boss didn’t like me. She and I never saw eye to eye, and she’s one of those people who asks for an opinion, yet really [...]

So, it’s about 5:40 this morning when I was roused from my slumber by what I could only describe as gunshots. “But this is Shaker Heights”, I say “I was just dreaming, and a loud noise woke me up” after that bit of rationalization, two more loud noises punctuated the silence. Yet, I was still [...]