General Blather

I've been a long-time user of Unbuntu, abandoning Windows on hardware some time ago. I swap between VMWare and VirtualBox to run Windows for occasions where I must, since I can do just about everything native on the Ubuntu desktop. more »

Recommended by Netflix, I'm sure due in no small part to my other recent viewings of food-based documentaries, like "Food, Inc." This wasn't so much about the kinds of food problems most of us face, but another kind of problem blamed on food. more »

I know that occasionally I come off like an arrogant jerk, especially when it comes to goofs and mistakes. I never mean it that way, and certainly never with malice. I make a few goofs myself, although I do try to reduce them before I get ridiculed by… more »

Yesterday was a busy day for some blog spammer. OK, so a busy day for some blog spammer's bot. This little, futile, under-read, barely noticeable blog got hit with 50 comment posts from someone with an e-mail address ending in "vippi.fi" (of course,… more »

Some narrow-minded church leaders and/or members have decided to have a good old-fashioned book-burning, except this time they're burning the Qur'an. A rinky 50-member church has been filling the news feeds on my Google-driven home-page, and the notice… more »