By Chad on 11/22/2005
I get really irritated when pundits (usually those trying to stamp out Free Software) describe the GNU GPL as “viral” or “infectious.” You have to make a conscious decision to link your code against GPL code! You can’t get “infected” by the GPL through any means other than your own choice. If you don’t want [...]
Posted in Pet Peeves, Software Libré | Tagged copyleft, GPL, Software Libré, software licensing |
By Chad on 8/22/2005
Being pro-war doesn’t make you patriotic, any more than being anti-war makes you unpatriotic. A century ago, we used the terms “hawk” and “dove” to describe those positions precisely because it is beyond insulting to use how you feel about a particular military conflict to pigeonhole you as patriotic or not. While I’m on the [...]
Posted in Pet Peeves, Politics | Tagged Iraq, patriotism, pet peeve, war |
By Chad on 7/26/2005
Once again, in my eternal quest to get good hosting on the cheap, I’ve moved servers yet again. If you’re seeing this message, the DNS has propagated, and it’s pointing to the new host at ServerPronto.
Posted in Site Updates | Tagged web hosting |
By Chad on 7/23/2005
It was a wild morning in the wee hours of Wednesday, July 20. Jennie felt what we guess now must have been her water breaking about 11:00PM (Tuesday night). We didn’t recognize it, though, and we went to bed anyway. Little did we know we’d have a baby a little over four hours later!
Posted in Personal, Photos | Tagged Bianca, family, Jennie, Photos |
By Chad on 7/11/2005
As a follow-up to my previous invective-laden diatribe, I thought you’d be interested to see that the same people who brought us welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com are at it again with tomcruiseisnuts.com. I particularly love their “disclaimer” at the bottom:
Posted in Movies, Religion | Tagged mental illness, Scientology, Tom Cruise |
By Chad on 6/22/2005
People, especially lawmakers, who think the flag is more important than the things it represents, like say, the Constitution.
Posted in Pet Peeves | Tagged patriotism, pet peeve, protest, U.S. Constitution |
By Chad on 6/6/2005
Outside the door to my office, there’s a sign that reads: The following items are PROHIBITED in the Closed Area: … Any Transmittable devices … Having a device that could be transmitted (i.e. is transmittable) would be a neat trick!
Posted in Pet Peeves | Tagged grammar, pet peeve |
By Chad on 6/6/2005
People who think “Support Our Troops” means supporting the President no matter what he does to put our troops’ lives in danger.
Posted in Pet Peeves | Tagged patriotism, pet peeve, protest |
