2008 June

Ok, I’ll admit it. They say that the first step is to admit it.
My dog, Marshall, is powerless over the effects of cat food.
There, I said it. I feel a little better now.
We discovered this quite by accident. Ren (the cat, aka Satan) gets fed in the kitchen, behind louvred doors. [...]

I’m relatively new, so forgive me if I’ve missed something.
Blog brothers and sisters - what do you think about some sort of group for Gnome Bloggers?  A slightly less public place to share tips or maybe get some help for your own blog.   A place to check status maybe, especially after recent events (no, you’re [...]

Over at usrbingeek’s musings, there’s a blog about things not to say in a job interview. It’s pretty darn accurate. Since we all need serious advice, it’s good to have those posts (and his real-life experiences). Since I am the little guy with the horns that stands on your shoulder [...]

I just put up a permanent page on the blog called leftystrat’s guide to computer safety. It’s some free advice (advice being worth what you pay for it) about how to keep your computer safe online.
It’s primarily Windows-based, as that’s primarily where the problems are. The difficult part is that most of the [...]

Chrysler announces WiFi-enabled cars: “We want to make the radio itself a WiFi port,” a spokesperson said. The service will require a subscription to a wireless phone carrier.
I thought it a good sign that in-car video wasn’t doing that well. Now we can get wi-fi in the car. Yes folks, here’s another thing [...]

The Supreme Court today 06/26/08 struck down the DC gun band and upheld the 2nd amendment with the finding that the “individual” has the “right” to keep and and bare (own) arms and that right “shall not be infringed”.
The vote was 5 to 4
If the vote had gone the other way, it would have started [...]

The U.S. has given Pakistan nearly $6 billion to pursue terrorists since the Sept. 11 attacks, but with little to no proof that the money has been used for that purpose, an independent audit has found.
The assessment by the Government Accountability Office, released Tuesday, angered members of Congress who say they are concerned that Pakistan [...]

The CIA’s Torture Teachers, psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen [see Eban and Mayer for a reminder of their work], are in the news again. In a front page New York Times article on the interrogation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, it is mentioned that the subject of the story, Deuce Martinez is now employed by [...]

I’m a salaried (not hourly) employee, therefore no overtime. I hear rumblings of after-hours requirements. Most people say that it’s either part of the job requirements or there’s some sort of comp-time arrangement on the back-end. How does it work for you?
There’s a very interesting article at Lifehacker on this topic, mostly [...]

Windows only: Free, open-source application KDE Window-Sizer resizes and moves windows when you click anywhere inside the window while holding the Alt key. To move a window, then, hold Alt and left-click and drag anywhere in the window to move it—this behavior mimics the move behavior available in the KDE Linux desktop environment. Likewise, to [...]