You get what you pay for.
by Pete on May 31, 2006
As I mentioned a few weeks back, I have spent a fair amount of time at work over the last month trying to get Tomcat working through Apache virtual hosts to server JSP pages. Today, I finally got it working. (…)
Bilingual ballots
by Pete on May 26, 2006
As if on demand, George Will churned out one of his typically panties-in-a-bunch editorials in yesterday’s Washington Post, this time about illegal immigrants who cannot be bothered to learn English and the misguided liberals who indulge them. What has gotten (…)
Another immigration post
by Pete on May 25, 2006
While driving in to work yesterday, I caught a story on NPR about the children of illegal immigrants having problems getting into college. While I tuned too late to get most of the details, the gist of the story was (…)
With friends like these
by Pete on May 24, 2006
I just don’t get it sometimes. From an article in this morning’s Washington Post describing the Senate Intelligence Committee’s 12-3 vote to approve Gen. Michael Hayden’s nomination to replace Porter Goss as the head of the CIA: But the panel’s (…)
Comics
by Pete on May 23, 2006
After having managed to avoid it for my entire life, I find myself having gotten sucked into comics. It all started with my dissatisfaction regarding the season finale of Smallville and the aforementioned research into the comic-book histories of Brainiac (…)
Alas, First Amendment, we hardly knew ye.
by Pete on May 22, 2006
As though the headline “Gonzales Says Prosecutions of Journalists Are Possible” was not bad enough already, I was almost to the end of this Times article when I ran across this gem: Mr. Gonzales said that the administration promoted and (…)
Mates of State – Bring It Back
by Pete on May 18, 2006
I was introduced to this band (as is so often the case) thanks to KEXP’s John in the Morning. This album is, I am told, a bit more polished than their previous work, but as I have only heard the (…)
More on immigration
by Pete on May 17, 2006
According to this Washington Post article, the Senate immigration bill is still moving along, after having apparently stalled a month ago. A Democratic amendment that would have eliminated the bill’s guest-worker program was defeated. Meanwhile, a bill with no guest-worker (…)
The President is on the TV.
by Pete on May 16, 2006
As has been my habit the last few years, I did not watch the President’s televised address last night. There is no point to watching it, really—it will only serve to drive my blood pressure up and make me want (…)
Smallville
by Pete on May 15, 2006
At the beginning of the season, I predicted (not here) that the big thing for the season finale would be the arrival of Zod. With Lionel’s not-so-cryptic warning at the end of the second-to-last episode that “Zod is coming,” it (…)