Captain Fishback, I salute you

The United States military would do well with a lot more officers like US Army Captain Fishback. This article tells the abbreviated version of his efforts to do the right thing. Officers who back and support the enlisted personnel who serve under them is rarer than it should be. aloha

Welcome to Central Texas

My psychological make up is that of a first responder. I find it very difficult to do nothing when a disaster has occurred. I want to go and help. I want to be part of the effort to rescue those affected and clean up the mess. I prefer the chaos in the moment of and … Read more

Apple vs the music industry

So, the battle of words between Apple and the music industry has begun (article is here). In my opinion, Steve Jobs is right. The music publishers are greedy. Bronfman’s logic doesn’t hold water. In the current pricing scheme on iTunes Music Store more popular songs generate more income by the fact that they are downloaded … Read more

Stepford Wives (1975)

The Stepford Wives Interesting movie. Not all that good in my opinion but thought provoking. There are probably going to be spoilers here so if that bothers you you may want to come back after you’ve seen the movie. The movie is about a town called Stepford which is supposedly in Connecticut. Mapquest says there … Read more

Engadget T-Shirt Contest

I read Engadget pretty much daily. They had a t-shirt contest, they posted the results, they aren’t allowing comments on their web site and I feel strongly enough about this that I have to comment so I’ll put it on mine. Go here and take a look at the winning t-shirt. Now take a look … Read more

New Look

In the course of migrating from Eclispe Hosting (which was bought by Jumpline Hosting) to Host Excellence I upgraded my Movable Type install to 3.2. I decided to stick with one of the standard templates because modifying or creating your own is a lot of work. In the past when I have tried to create … Read more