Month: September 2003

That’s Not Right!

It’s not the most important issue in the world, but the fact is, the historical record has been altered, and not for the better, by the distributor of a minor comedy from the … Read more

(More) On Leadership

“The wicked leader is one who the people despise. The good leader is one who the people revere. The great leader is the one of whom the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’” … Read more

Bad Driver, Bad!

After spending a few hours yesterday figuring out how to use ssh tunneling, (possibly the topic of a separate post), I turned to things more mundane today. I decided to see if there … Read more

Workflow

Since one of the things I like to do is post images it seemed a good idea to try this common activity using my new powerbook. I decided to create and post an … Read more

Take a Byte

A new 15″ G4 PowerBook plus an iPod equals not much time to blog tonight, but it is worth noting that almost 20 years after the Mac came out I’m finally making the … Read more

Word Pirates

Here’s an interesting web site, Word Pirates, a grassroots effort to take back words whose original meaning have been shamelessly misappropriated by politicians and advertisers and other of their ilk. Here’s one example … Read more

Let Me See That Again

Antipixel made an observation about how he crops digital images much more often than he does film based photos. I tend to crop more since I’ve gone digital; I had ascribed it to … Read more

Good Fish, Bad Fish

In recent years the word has been getting out that certain species of fish are being over-harvested and as such should be avoided by the dining and fish buying public. In the words … Read more