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Blogging from LinuxWorld

I’m sitting here in the email garden at the Javitz center in NYC having just come from RedHat’s booth. They’re pushing RHEL v3 (no surprise) but I did manage to get a set of 3 Fedora CDs off them. I’ll…

Note to McDonald’s: you sell food, not image. I’m sorry to say, but carrying a Mickey D’s bag down the street just doesn’t sport the caché of, say, wearing Air Jordans. In other words, fire your ad man, cause “I’m…

Real Heroes

It seems there are some real heroes left in this world. 9/11 showed the heroism of NYC firefighters, EMS workers, policemen and even regular citizens. This story also gives me the same warm feeling, the same “Hooray for humanity!” vibe…

Sorry for the lag time between posts. The wife and I were on a lovely Southern swing, in which we hit Virginia and South Carolina. I have to say, after all this vacationing, I need a vacation! Thank goodness for…

Come To Think Of It…

I had an epiphany last night. Bravo has begun running reruns of The West Wing at 11pm. I’ve never particularly cared for the show’s politics. nor its sense of smug self-satisfaction. (As one of my coworkers tells it, TWW is…

Miscellaneous /etc

Looks like Bruce Campbell will be all right. Now if only they’d bring Bubb Ho-Tep to Philly… A view (that I agree with) as to why canceling the “Terror Futures market” was a dumb idea. What part of DARPA’s mission…