General Blather

Today Reuters (and others) writes about new protests in response to a film that mocks the Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him. I get the outrage, but not quite the scale. I also don't quite understand why those masses believe they need to hold all of Am… more »

With tonight's loss to the White Sox, the Twins elimination number is now one. If they lose or the White Sox win, the Twins are eliminated from playoff contention. A very small silver lining is that the Indians also lost tonight, so with the White Sox… more »

I caved to the inner geek in me and finally threw caution to the wind and updated my Galaxy Nexus without waiting for Verizon to deliver their OTA update. It's my first non-standard ROM, and while I was nervous at first....I kinda liked doing it. I fol… more »

A recent update on Ubuntu changed the display settings so I that my menu bar spanned the whole distance of my two-monitor desktop. more »