I caught Training Day recently. It’s a good film that dramatizes a real ethical dilema and contains some great acting by Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. Snoop Dogg has a cameo as a drug dealer (big stretch for him, eh?) that’s suprisingly good. Macy Gray does well in her even smaller part. I found Dr. [...]

I hadn’t visited in a long while (and I needed a good laugh), so I decided to surf Segfault.org. But they lost most of their content due to a server being repurposed (and them not having good backups). They’re in the process of reconstructing the site. Some of the articles are online already; they’re looking [...]

Wikipedia is an open source encyclopedia project. Do you know anything about anything? Of course you do, so why not contribute? It’s harmless geek fun that produces something truly useful. In these days when copyright and patent laws keep fencing off our common culture, it’s nice to see people creating knowledge that can’t be owned [...]

My latest freelance project (suemadison.com) went live a few days ago. We had some trouble getting the domain name forwarding to work. But now all is fine. It’s still a little slow to load. I’m going to optimize images and preloading when time permits. Nancy played a great show tonight. I’m beginning to grow nostalgic [...]

I was raised a southern baptist. It was at about my thirteenth birthday that I started to think of myself as an agnostic. And it was sometime during my time as a college undergraduate that I began to consider myself an atheist. So, for at least seventeen of my (very soon to be) thirty-two years [...]