Blog of Doom

Well, I’ve been incommunicado for a week now. Why? Runescape, or as I like to call it, Runecrack. This is a low budget (i.e. free) online Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Game. I decided to give it a try to see what it was all about. The gameplay is alright at best. It isn’t the greatest. [...]

Have you noticed that everything involving people always seems to have an inner circle syndrome?
For example, there are people who drink coffee. Instant, drip, whatever. But, they get their coffee from the grocery store. They get Folgers or Maxwell House in the big cans and use it, and it tastes just fine. But, then there [...]

Ok, this is just sad. Today I get my usual raft of spam (which Apple Mail diverts to the Spam folder toot sweet, thank you very much). One of them, however, stood out from the others. It didn’t have a catchy sounding or even wildly pornographic sounding subject line.
No. This one stood out because it [...]

$7.74:
Let’s put that in perspective. The Walton family’s net worth is $90 billion. So $8 million dollars represents .009 percent of their total.
The average family’s net worth is $86,100. If an average family contributed at the same rate as the Waltons, they’d donate $7.74.
There are thousands of families all around country that are being far [...]

Morgan loves electricity!

The Shrinkwrapification of Patented Goods.:
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ACRA, an association of cartridge remanufacturers, sued Lexmark to block this anti-consumer use of patent law. EFF filed an amicus brief on their behalf before the Ninth Circuit. Unfortunately, the Ninth Circuit this week ruled in favor of Lexmark, agreeing that the “single use only” restriction
contained in the “box-wrap license” on [...]

Hurricane Relief Suggestion Box:
I’ve not blogged the Katrina aftermath much, partly because I’m so disgusted I don’t trust myself around a keyboard when I’m thinking about it, and partly because I have been assuming that most decent, clear-thinking people are thinking pretty much the same thing.
I guess I was wrong on the second count, at [...]

This morning I mentioned a rant of epic proportions coming. I’ve decided to wait on that until this crisis is over. The main thing now is to get everyone rescued, then start asking questions.

What a horrible week! I’ve been just blown away mentally by the horrible events happening a few hours drive away in New Orleans. I’m just so sorry for the poor people whose lives have been ended or disrupted by Hurricane Katrina. Many from Louisiana are coming here to the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex seeking refuge. We [...]