I wanted to get from San Jose to Kansas City, so I booked a flight on a discount travel web site. It was on some airline I’d never heard of. After I boarded the plane, I noticed that my boarding pass said the destination was New Orleans. I got off the plane [...]

I just noticed that back in May, Matt Croydon got my program glock, a simple analog clock, running on Maemo, Nokia’s open source environment that was designed for their 770 web pad.
He shows it running on Maemo on an x86 (PC) platform, but I assume that it would work on the 770. He suggests [...]

There’s been a lot of discussion of the death penalty lately, due to the recent execution of Stanley Tookie Williams, founder of the Crips gang, and convicted murderer. Tom Harrison explains some of the reasons he supports the death penalty.
I’m opposed to the death penalty for several reasons, chief of which is the [...]

President George W. Bush should be impeached and charged with criminal violation of U.S. law. He has openly admitted that he issued orders authorizing the National Security Agency to conduct electronic surveilance of U.S. citizens without obtaining the necessary court orders or search warrants. The President makes the false claim that he has [...]

Well, for your three dollars, anyhow. The Vestibules (formerly Radio Free Vestibule) have released a downloadable mini album Chest of Drawers 5.0. It is delivered as a ZIP file containing ten sketches in MP3 format. The cost is $3 via Paypal.
I downloaded it earlier this afternoon, and found it to be side-splittingly [...]

Ten days ago I wrote about getting a cracked windshield. Progressive insurance said they’d pay for glass repair without making me pay the deductible. Today Safelite Auto Glass came to my office to repair it.
The technician said that because the crack was so large (bulls-eye about the size of a dime), the repair [...]

Boing Boing describes a $25K bounty for hacks to the new DirecTV PVR to allow usinng a different (higher-capacity) hard drive, multiple drives, etc. They state that they specificially don’t want anything that will bypass the DRM or Tivo’s service fees.
Those caveats are a shame, because the best upgrade to a Tivo would be [...]

In mid-November, Xavier Théry contributed a very nice HP-67 image. I’ve just adjusted the KML file and checked both into the Subversion repository. It will be used in the next release.

There hasn’t been much to report on Nonpareil development lately. I haven’t had much time to spend on it, but I have made some progress. Most notably:
I came up with a scheme to fake the Woodstock pointer wrap behavior well enough that the HP-29C and HP-67 label search code works. I don’t [...]

Joe carter wrote In the Beginning was Nothing: A Creation Story for Young Materialists. It’s an amusing story, but I can’t see how actors like “Time” and “Chance” in his story are distinguishable from “God” in the conventional creation story.
Although it’s not as entertaining, I think the materialist story of the origin (not creation) [...]