Amazon MP3 Store a Hit

While Apple owns 80% of the digital music pie, Amazon is starting to gain momentum–they are now in distant second.  And the experience is as close to perfect as possible.
I’ve tried the main digital music stores.  I was a member of eMusic which I thought was a good deal, 50 songs a month for $15.  [...]

Why Are There No Conservatives?

Oh, don’t get me wrong, there are many that call themselves conservative…but are they? Small government, fiscal responsibility, individual rights, and a humble foreign policy; these are all conservative values. To this list we could also add protecting families and watersheds.
Today–in place of true conservatives–we have neo-conservatives, theo-conservatives and reactionaries; but nary a [...]

Browsing the Web on Windows

I gotta say Wow! to Firefox 3.  I installed the most recent beta on my Windows box and it is really nice.  I don’t use that computer every day but in my short tests it is a truly superior browser.
I installed IE 8 beta, Opera 9.5 beta, Firefox 3 beta, and Safari 3.1 beta.  Thought [...]

Bush Cancels Election

Boy Does Parallels Suck

A while ago I heard that Parallels was added to the Ubuntu repos.  Cool I thought.  so I went to Parallels website and purchased two licenses–one for my Linux box and one for my Win box.  So far so good…$93 seemed like a good price.
Parallels uses the Element5 webstore…that should have been a hint….I had [...]

New “Rate My Cop” Website

Every so often an idea so brilliant comes along, then you wonder, why didn’t I think of that.
A new website which gives ratings to cops from around the country.  Called Rate My Cop (currently down, but hopefully not out) has been getting quite a bit of news.
The police evidently hate it…here is some coverage from [...]

Why do they hate us?

Is it our freedoms, or…
Assholes like this.
Edit: So it seems that the interwebitudes has identified the puppy killer.  A blog on typepad has identified him as David Motari. It seems that he may be from Seattle or Hawaii.
Let’s be honest, crap like this happens in every war.  Once you break a kid down, make him [...]