Archives: Lance
Behind the Times
August 23rd, 2009, No Comments
You know you’re behind the times when Mexico does something in the “Drug War” before you do.
Mexico enacted a controversial law Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging free government treatment for drug dependency.
The law sets out maximum “personal use” amounts for drugs, also including LSD and [...]
Google Reader annoyance
July 17th, 2009, No Comments
Sometime recently I noticed a change int he way the ‘Mark all as read’ button works in Google Reader. I used to be able to press it, have all the articles in the listing marked as read, and then go back and hit ‘m’ to set one or a few of them back to ‘unread’ [...]
Obama’s Hypocricy
July 12th, 2009, 7 Comments
Yesterday, in a speech in Ghana, President Obama said (emphasis mine):
America has a responsibility to work with you as a partner to advance this vision, not just with words, but with support that strengthens African capacity. When there’s a genocide in Darfur or terrorists in Somalia, these are not simply African problems — they are [...]
The Whirlwind that is GA
June 27th, 2009, 1 Comment
Well, I have a few minutes downtime when I’m not totally exhausted so I can write something here, finally. I had plans to do a daily post sharing my impressions of the behind-the-scenes work that goes into delivering all the GA website reporting and video streaming. That plan crumbled upon contact with GA. I actually [...]
And off we go!
June 21st, 2009, 2 Comments
I’m about to go offline and pack up my laptop for the trip to Salt Lake City. My flight is at 6:30AM Monday morning so I need to be up around 4AM and heading out at 4:45 or so. Ugh. I’ll arrive in SLC at 8:50AM SLC time and have a full day ahead of [...]
New twist on an old joke
June 18th, 2009, No Comments
This just came across one of the mailing lists I’m on:
Jesus and Satan have a discussion as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they come to an agreement to hold a contest, with God as the judge.
They sit themselves at their computers and begin. They type furiously, [...]
Moving On
June 5th, 2009, 4 Comments
I just unsubscribed from the CGI::Application mailing list. I no longer use CGI::App and the mails were just cluttering my inbox. My first Perl CGi script was written using plain ol’ CGI.pm many years ago. I ran across it again recently and winced when I read the code. I saw messes of nested function calls [...]
Lenovo mans up and does the right thing
June 2nd, 2009, No Comments
One of the things I’ve always loved about my ThinkPad and Lenovo notebooks is the System Update feature. I’d just run it and get all the latest updates from lenovo. They also notified users of critical updates via the Message Center facility. Very nice, until Lenovo terminated System Update. Around the beginning of March, SU [...]
A step forward for Gitmo Transparency
June 1st, 2009, No Comments
I’m pleased to see more transparency coming to the Guantanamo Bay proceedings. It’s about time. The unclassified evidence used to justify continued incarceration of over 100 detainees at Guantanamo Bay must be filed with the court within one month and the U.S. government has to apply for court approval to keep specific information secret.
U.S. [...]
Dr. George Tiller
May 31st, 2009, No Comments
My heart goes out to Dr. Tiller’s family in their time of loss. I’m glad that a suspect has already been arrested. I worry what demented justification he/she will provide for their violence.
