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 …

Train Of The Damned

[I’ll prob­a­bly end up deliv­er­ing this onstage either tomor­row or next week.] It’s 9:28 PM Commuter train of the damned Slaving away for machines Which do our think­ing for us Which is what this is all about… Evolution… It’s 9:32 PM Commuter train of the damned Soon to be board­ing A motly crew of the damaged …

Whee

A few months ago, I was sup­posed to get some help on my job. Specifically, some­one to work on the .NET side of things, which would free me up to do the job I was actu­ally hired to do: PHP devel­op­ment. He wasn’t my first choice, but he was sec­ond, in large part because of …