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• Ossetian Separatism: whose business is it?
  Quoted without comment from Sheldon Richman's blog: When it comes to separatist movements, the American and Russian governments have no principles whatever. They take whatever side advances their political interests at the moment. When ethnic Albanians...
• What's wrong with the web, Part 45: Demanding Redundant Language Choice
  Today's rant won't be politically correct. Not that you care, dear readers. A problem with the Web in Canada is that most corporate and government sites force you to pick a language. Why is that a problem? Because you've already picked a language. If ...
• What's wrong with the web, Part 44: Browser Version Fascism
  I get really frustrated when web sites tell me to "upgrade" from Firefox 3 to Firefox 1.5. I understand that they feel they have to play silly little trix to make their web site look like some over-inspired abstract landscape, but can they pl...
• What's wrong with the web, Part 43(b)
  Here's another example of a stupid web site problem that could have been easily avoided. I sent this to (name of web site) this morning; let's see if I get a response from this one. Your Web Developers need to get with the "don't make me think&qu...
• Linus Just Doesn't Get It
  Linux founder Linus Torvalds makes an amazing claim about Linux security (or not) on gmane.kernel.org (I'm not even gonna help pagerank that article by linking to it; search the newsgroup name and the date 2008-07-08). Speaking about security fixes, he...

• Re: "Red Lights Will Never Be The Same", Part 1
  Right, I wasn't clear enough there; the driver's airbag is in the steering column. It was a cold day so I had the windows up, there is thus a strong chance of door-frame, window or other misalignment caused by the explosive bag deployment (my ears hurt...
• Re: "Red Lights Will Never Be The Same", Part 1
  Glad you are ok, Ian. GMs, I think, are more disposable than other cars. My (Toyota)'s airbag is in the steering wheel and just above the glove compartment. Both can be replaced cheaply. Talk to your transportation department about having longer yell...
• Re: Ian's Top Ten Today, #1
  That Waco article was interesting. I'd never seen the correlation between the jingoism in our response to McVeigh and to 9/11. The patent article is a bit preposterous. Things like email and Huffman codes were created out of taxpayer-funded research p...