2009 January

The Roman Catholic Church revoked the excommunications of four bishops on Saturday but I am going to concentrate on just one.
Richard Williamson is a Brit who said in an interview that he didn’t believe that six million Jews died in the Nazi gas chambers.  The bishop said that he believes that “the historical evidence” was [...]

There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners.
WHY?
The linked article contains the locations of many of them on a Google map.  You can check out the one(s) nearest to you.
The article further claims that these are prison camps intended to be used to house Americans, once [...]

I got an email at work today.  The boss at an external unit was having trouble accessing her email from home.  Someone called Comcast at some point, which provided some interesting information: Comcast is blocking port 25.  They claim they’re doing this to stop spam.
Well, spam hasn’t stopped.  Parenthetically, any complaint or inquiry about spam [...]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled 5-1 that autopsy results should be public.  The court took up the case after two newspapers sued to find out the results of the autopsy of an Easton, PA, police officer.
The coroner refused to release the results, hence the suit.  The officer was shot by another officer in a gun-cleaning [...]

I can.   Well, I can’t, but you might be able to.  You can definitely listen though.
The Space Station orbits the planet.   When not performing their other duties, astronauts can make use of the amateur radio station on the ISS.  If you’re a licensed radio amateur (ham), you can talk to them on the way over [...]

One day my boss walks in and mentions wanting a way to organize all of our self-generated help documents.  She suggests a Google box (meaning that this was her idea all along).  Being a non-profit organization plus being an open source guy, the idea of an expensive appliance on the network rattles me a bit.  [...]

I recently got an email from someone offering spare printer cartridges because they had to get rid of their printer.  I thought it was wonderful that they would think of others in this way.  I work for a non-profit, which probably helps.
The following day I received an email with the reason for getting rid of [...]

Right after the general announcement about the Pre, I blogged about it, giving my likes and dislikes.  I said I’d keep an open mind, hoping that I might like the new phone.
I’m an avid Treo 700p user.  It does what I want it to do.  My gripes are few.  I figured that after a few [...]

The day started with my radio going off.  My local bigmouth who just went national, Michael Smerconish, was talking about the inauguration, the ones he attended for one of the Bushes, and then he went to his guy in DC, who explained what it looked like.  After wishing his guy luck, he said he hoped [...]

Today I’m going to do something different.  Yes, I’m also going to do something different on the blog.  I’d like to welcome my cohort in linux, Art Alexion.  He had a very interesting experience recently and I insisted on having him write it down.  It starts when he used Google to find out how to [...]