I'm way behind the curve when it comes to having sex. I guess this shouldn't come as a surprise to me, but it's how far behind the curve that is shocking.

Here's my big complaint about precedent-based law: if a party of a lawsuit is incompetent, an unreasonable verdict can be reached that sets a precedent that's difficult to overturn.

Based on this article which contains the entire text of a legal "finding of fact", performing zone transfer could be considered illegal. This is complete nonsense.

When it becomes illegal to access publicly available information, we start to live in a scary world. In points 8, 9, and 10, the court correctly found the purpose and nature of zone transfers.

I was going to see "I am Legend" this weekend, but I thought better of it. Instead, I'm going to find something entertaining to do that doesn't involve crossing the picket lines of the writer's strike.

People seem to think that computers should be easy to use.

No. No. No. No. NO!

There's a very good reason that computers should be difficult to use, and there's lots of evidence to back this up. The reason is that life is hard. Computers can make your life better, the can not make it easier.

It's pretty simple really. There are only two ways to make life easier:

1. Have the person get more skilled at living life.
2. Take their life away from them and give it to someone who's more skilled than they are.

A friend of mine just sent me one of those fun invitations to join facebook.com.

I guess I don't make this site and blog well enough known, as nobody seems to know that it's here. It makes me sad, but I'll get over it.

The title is not meant to be sarcasm. It's also not meant to be derogatory. Yes, it is criticism, but more important, it is a serious question that someone deep within the community should make an effort to answer, at least for their own internal understanding.

It's ironic that I'd have such a story to tell on 9/11, which also happens to be National Preparedness Month.

Ironic, but also terrifying. It seems we (as a country) haven't learned a damn thing.

Life has been so hectic that I almost forgot that Ohio LinuxFest is coming up mighty soon.

This is probably the premier Linux event on the east coast. Arguably, being so far from Silicon Valley, it's not difficult to be a premier Linux event out this-a-way, but I still say it's a prestigious title!

A couple of years ago, I presented at Ohio Linux.

A while back I was surfing around, looking for some PostgreSQL wallpapers to make my computer better.

I was extremely disappointed at how few I found. I sat at my desk at work and wept quietly (mainly because the office is an open design, and loud sobbing is distracting to the other employees).

Parts of western Pennsylvania are being overrun with Emerald Ash Borer bugs. Apparently these things are not native to this area, kill ash trees dead, and spread like crazy.

There are a lot of ash trees in this part of the country. Should we get an infestation locally, there'd be 3 or 4 trees in my yard that would die.

Luckily, our state government cares. Unluckily, they're completely incompetent.

They've decided to issue a quarantine. This is good. It's currently illegal to transport wood around if you're in an infected area.