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Monthly Archive January, 2007

Handy programs to put on a USB stick…

January 31, 2007

I stumbled on this today while looking for something else… It’s actually pretty cool. Upon taking a quick glance at the list, there’s a number of apps that sound pretty useful to me. I’m suprised at how many things are being developed specifically with the purpose of running off a memory stick. There’s even a [...]

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Boing Boing: Here, Bullet: poetry from a US infantryman in Iraq

January 7, 2007

I really like this one from Boing Boing today:
Here, Bullet
If a body is what you want,
then here is bone and gristle and flesh.
Here is the clavicle-snapped wish,
the aorta’s opened valves, the leap
thought makes at the synaptic gap.
Here is the adrenaline rush you crave,
that inexorable flight, that insane puncture
into heat and blood. And I dare you [...]

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Congratulations Madam Speaker

January 5, 2007

When the democrats won big in November, I didn’t think much about the fact that Nancy Pelosi would become speaker. If anything, I thought it was cool that she was from the Bay Area. I always got a chucle when I heard the right wingers try to scare people with “San Francisco Liberal”.
It wasn’t until [...]

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