Status Report

I’ve fin­ished read­ing How to Lose Your Altruism How to Win Friends and Influence People, and the review is up. Also upgraded to WordPress 2.7, although since I’m using my own cus­tom theme the changes will be all on the back­end. I attempted to install OpenSolaris 2008.11 on my Macbook, which failed pretty spec­tac­u­larly. The …

They Thought There Were Free Toys

I’ve just ordered a Kindle and fin­ished a review of (warn­ing: spoil­ers, big-assed swastika on the front cover) They Thought They Were Free, a book about ordi­nary peo­ple in Germany who became Nazis that’s been on my list for a long while after it made the rounds on some of the lefty blogs I read. As …

Xen and The Art of Free Speech

Aside from the laugh­able idea of “mil­i­tantly” sup­port­ing any­thing with a blog post, Miguel sim­ply noted that these peo­ple exist, have writ­ten a book, and will be doing the speaking-tour-thing near him. Does he agree with the con­tents? (shakes eight-ball) Signs point to Yes. Is he free to do so? Also yes. Are you free to ignore …