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In another fine example of why tax money is wasted and government generally does not work, the Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn has resigned amid the controversy over a planned move to the OpenDocument format for state documents. Mr. Quinn’s primary sin appears to have been the audacity to choose an open document format, that Microsoft […]

No no no no! I’m not old enough for this yet! Nah, I’m not a grand dad yet, but my oldest daughter on the verge of teenagerdom saved up enough money for her first laptop computer. I ordered a Dell B120 for her yesterday and now I reflect on how time has passed, sniff sniff… […]

Time’s tv critic has named Battlestar Galactica, 2005 Show of the Year! It’s great to see a fantastic SF show get some mainstream recognition. The fanboy in me just hopes that this recognition won’t spoil a good thing. Hopefully this and continuing good ratings will allow it to escape cable and reach an even wider […]

Now 10 days past my 14 day World of Warcraft trial, I’m very tempted to buy the game, except for one little thing… I’m too cheap and lazy to haul my ass off to the store to buy the retail box that they insist I need to convert my trial account! Why should I need […]

By now it is no secret that the Xbox 360 got off to a slow start in Japan. Part of this may be explained by the delay of Dead or Alive 4, which would have been a nice launch title to have. But I don’t think anyone was expecting Earth moving sales in Japan even […]

Shame on you Bishop Ira Combs! Protests and complaints about Walmart’s labor practices are nothing new. And the thought that Walmart’s practices may not be Christ-like as one group’s current Where Would Jesus Shop? ad campaign suggests, may not be new either. But what I did find new and disgusting was that rather than send […]

Needing some distractions, I finally got the cosplay pics I took at Reactor 2005 up on the web. Despite a lot a of complaints, it really wasn’t a bad convention, just a work in progress. If there’s another one next year, I’ll probably just go solo.
Click here for Reactor 2005 Cosplay Pictures
Here’s one of my […]

My grandmother’s body died this morning. I say it that way because I think her spirit left this plane a few days before Thanksgiving. She went into the hospital and onto a respirator. Soon afterwards a neurologist pronounced her brain dead and we knew that the woman we all loved had gone to be with […]

This morning I decided to pick up a sandwich at McDs since I had rushed out the door without eating. On my way out I made eye contact with (heck we almost ran into each other) a lovely light skinned black woman. During this time there was a palpable pause and what I think was […]

Once again one of my lunch time walks turns up something that just knocks the ol’ socks off. Generally, you don’t see a lot of blonde haired Asian women in Chicago, and when you do it usually just doesn’t look right. But today as I exited the Virgin Megastore near my office, I had the […]