November 25, 2003, 3:13 pm
Check this out. Apparently, in a fit of uber-PC stupidity, the County of Los Angeles has decided that it is offensive for equipment (like hard drives) to carry the labels “master” and “slave.” I don’t have time to express my extreme disappointment in our ultra-PC society right now, but just let me say this: it’s impossible to say anything in this country anymore without having someone try to find a reason to take offense to it. I’ll write more about this at some time in the future.
November 18, 2003, 8:44 am
This is just sick and wrong, on so many levels.
November 13, 2003, 12:11 pm
If you visit this site at the California Department of Fish and Game, and click on Draft Wild Turkey Strategic Plan (PDF) you can read their “Strategic Plan for Wild Turkey Management.” This plan calls for the DFG to “relocate chronic problem turkeys,” among other things. This is, no doubt, far superior to the non-strategic plan, whatever that one was. Also, if you are a duck, you will want to mark the date of the 3rd North American Duck Symposium while you are there.
November 11, 2003, 2:58 pm
I just noticed that Bret is back in action. Welcome back, man.
November 11, 2003, 9:50 am
The comment spammers got on my last nerve this morning when I had to spend approximately 15 minutes before work deleting a full two volleys of spam sent yesterday and overnight. I’ve installed some protection, in the form of a slightly customized version of James Seng’s NetSol-like security key plugin. Now, you have to type a 6-digit security code before posting. Take that, spammer freaks!
November 10, 2003, 12:21 pm
November 4, 2003, 9:45 am
It’s bad enough I have to deal with a tidal wave of e-mail spam on a daily basis, but after the 4th round of deleting 20+ comments on my site all saying the same thing and having a link to a pornographic web site, I’m on the verge of simply disabling comments altogether. People really need to start carrying their own weight on the Internet instead of leeching from those people who pay for their e-mail accounts and web space. I don’t understand it — for some reason, people who wouldn’t ever think of walking into someone’s yard and putting up dozens of signs stating “Nice yard. Visit lolita-f***.com!” think nothing of posting comments on a web site doing basically the same thing. Jerks.