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	Does Zelensky Demand a full-blown World War III?!	July 12, 2023
	What the hell is President Zelensky's problem? First, the West provided a shitload of weaponry and support, but not even bothering with one sign of gratitude, Zelensky decried the West's hesitancy of supplying… (Continued)

	Cluster Munitions?! WTF!!!	July 10, 2023
	For the US to supply Ukraine with Cluster Munitions is simply evil. Much of the world not only bans their use, but even their manufacture and possession. Has Biden gone insane or is the US already grasping at… (Continued)

	New Clear Days	October 1, 2022
	If Russia were to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, or by some contrivance caused a nuclear incident, Russia’s own troops and perhaps even Moscow itself, could become the target of an equivalent response. There… (Continued)

	Evil is as Evil does	July 2, 2022
	Why is it that it’s always the Republican party whose members sink into illegitimacy and resign the presidency (Nixon), cross the line of criminality and are implicated in scandals (Reagan), and are even… (Continued)

	Land of the ~~Free~~ Unfree!	June 27, 2022
	The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Sadly, those who love freedom appear to have dropped the ball, and now half of the country has been relegated to a form of servitude, if not outright slavery to the… (Continued)

	Freedom is not for women!	June 25, 2022
	The fact that the United States "Supreme" Court reversed almost half a century of advances for women's rights is a testament to that institution's ruinous imbalance and sycophantic adherence to the idea that freedom only belongs to the rulers, not the ruled. Shame on inJustice Alito and his filthy ilk. Rot in hell!

	How To Narrow Your World View	May 15, 2022
	Ever wonder how conspiracy theories, crazy ideas, and outright lies become so wide-spread and popular? The answer lies in the “show more like this” technology that is an integral part of so many big web sites… (Continued)

	America Land of ~~the free~~ No Choice	May 15, 2022
	America is losing the battle for Democracy: Despite an overwhelming majority of Americans being in favor of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court is now looking to reverse almost a half century of law, taking away a… (Continued)

	It's all going according to plan	April 14, 2022
	Fire and explosions aboard the Russian flagship guided missile cruiser Moskva (“Moscow”) resulted in the ship’s sinking today. This event looks like an indicator where Putin’s irresponsible invasion and war… (Continued)

	Resist!	March 16, 2022
	Pushed into a corner by his own stupidity, Vladimir Putin's only exit strategy from his self-made dilemma is to keep going: destroy and occupy Ukraine, attack and destroy the next non-NATO country, and continue… (Continued)

	End Putin NOW	March 4, 2022
	Putin is finished, not just politically, but with the invasion of Ukraine he forfeited his life and legacy! Putin’s war against Ukraine was unprovoked and unjustifiable. Putin’s claims that Russia intends to… (Continued)

	Russia: How Do We Sleep When Our Beds Are Burning?	February 28, 2022
	How could President Vladimir Putin make such a colossal error in judgment? If the conquest of Ukraine had been a rapid, three-day faît accompli, he would certainly have made Russia proud of his accomplishments… (Continued)

	Russia: Walk into Darkness	February 27, 2022
	This is what’s wrong with autocratic leaders: One man, blindly or maybe fearfully given the reigns of an entire nation, can decide the best as well as the worst for his people with little or no opposition. You… (Continued)

	The End of America?	June 1, 2021
	The acceptance of QAnon conspiracy theories (ignore all reason and question everything, no matter how stupid or insane), not just among low brows but politicians as well, seems to be ushering in the ultimate… (Continued)

	Above The Law	Jan 11, 2021
	If the President of the United States were able to pardon himself, then effectively he'd be above the law: Commit a (federal) crime, self-pardon, and voilá! Why not do it again?

	Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!	Nov 7, 2020
	There’s a plethora of reasons why Trump deserved to lose this election, not the least of which is described quite succinctly by John Oliver. The absolutely idiotic proportions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the… (Continued)

	Truth vs. Trump	Oct 2, 2020
	Irony rules: President Trump, long dismissing the threat of the SARS-Cov-2 virus as a hoax, was himself infected by the hoax, and battling the effect of the hoax was taken to Walter Reed “for the next few days… (Continued)

	Trump Stripped Naked	Sep 28, 2020
	If we compare the average rate of deaths across the entire world, averaging brilliant responses (New Zealand, almost nil) and devastatingly poor ones (Great Britain, even worse than the US per capita) the… (Continued)

	Leadership	Mar 20, 2020
	President Trump is a complete disgrace. Never mind all the facepalm-worthy things this man has hitherto committed. Let’s treat these as foolish capers in an age of levity and lack of consequence, but when it… (Continued)

	President Grabs GOP by the Pussy	Jan 31, 2020
	And the Grand Ole’ Pussy likes it!

	~~Falsehoods~~ Alternative Facts	January 23, 2017
	Having brought down the 5.7% unemployment rate inherited from the Obama administration, replaced Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) with an even more affordable health care system, soundly defeated ISIS, built a… (Continued)

	OMFG	November 9, 2016
	Racism, xenophobia, lies, incitement to violence, and hatred for women have won the day. Shockingly, this happened in the United States of America. The Founding Fathers are turning in their graves. We are well and truly humped.

	Solarized Theme for Eclipse 4	March 6, 2015
	No other color theme seems as easy on my eyes, and conducive of my creativity as Solarized. For the longest time the various blindingly bright themes of Eclipse have deteriorated my patience (not to mention my… (Continued)

	Where are the 2560x1600 (130+DPI) monitors?!	May 31, 2014
	Where are the 2560x1600 (16:10) monitors? Hello? Is it all about watching movies on a 16:9 display these days, is nobody coding anymore? Does nobody care anymore about vertical pixels? I never felt that a 4:3… (Continued)

	Bitfools	December 2, 2013
	Seriously now, would you hand over your wallet, credit cards, bank cards, all your passwords, and everything else of value to some guy at the street corner? You laugh, then why did you create an “online… (Continued)

	Fail, fail, and fail again!	October 2, 2013
	Stubborn, short-sighted, and spiteful, that describes the Republican Party as far as I’m concerned: I can understand being dissatisfied with the Affordable Care Act, unhappy with its prospects, and wanting… (Continued)

	Boxer to package your Eclipse Java Tools	September 18, 2013
	Are you using Eclipse to build Java tools (rather than JEE) and are you looking for a way to package and sign the resulting JAR, then build nice distribution archives from the resulting file(s)? Do you want to… (Continued)

	BitTorrent Sync	July 18, 2013
	If you have not tried the “BitTorrent Sync” client, you're missing out on an incredibly versatile technology. I know not about the underlying details to feel entirely comfortable with the cryptographic security… (Continued)

	JavaFX 8.0 3D	July 4, 2013
	The venerable Java3D technology that ships as an add-on to the Java Platform has never really caught on, perhaps because it was a pain to setup, and make part of a shipping product, but Java 8.0 is about to… (Continued)

	JavaFX Graduates!	February 1, 2013
	JavaFX has finally graduated to first-class status with the release of JDK 1.8.0-b75: No longer is it necessary to add `jfxrt.jar` explicitly to the classpath to compile and run applications, it’s now as easy as `javac MyApp.java` (yay!)

	Wells Fargo Sucks	February 1, 2013
	A few days ago a check I wrote on my Wells Fargo account was returned unpaid. Panicked, I checked my account online but was puzzled to find that the money was there, indubitably present and undeniably available… (Continued)

	RingWave Art	December 25, 2012
	I should have mentioned my friend’s awesome RingWave Art Gallery long ago. I have several of his creations framed on my walls. The colors are vibrant and absolutely stunning in print. I wish I had more wall space. Check them out!

	XS3D: The Extremely Simple 3D Rendering Engine	December 25, 2011
	Just updated XS3D, our Extremely Simple 3D Rendering Engine, which includes source code (licensed under the GPLv3) for your extended programming pleasure. Enjoy!

	Stop Holding Your Breath!	October 6, 2012
	It has been said that the only thing that we learn from history, is that we do not learn anything from history. Contradiction or truth, the fact remains that many of us refuse to admit that we have a tendency… (Continued)

	Rotted Apple	August 30, 2012
	Something’s rotten inside Apple. As much as fans of Apple might like to argue it at this point in time, Steve Jobs has driven Apple, has defined Apple, and has literally been Apple; but a year after Steve’s… (Continued)

	21 Years for 77 Dead	August 24, 2012
	A human’s life in Sweden is worth barely more than 3¼ months, less than 100 days of the killer’s life, short enough for him to commit a similar crime twice more. Interesting! Remind me not to be in Sweden around 2033…

	Since when does black infringe on white?	August 24, 2012
	The jury in Apple v. Samsung appears to have managed to get through 109 pages and 700 questions in only 22 hours: 5 pages and more than 31 questions per hour. Impressive performance if I could be led to believe… (Continued)

	Story: Blackstone	June 3, 2012
	My first story, published and sent out into the wild, wild world: Blackstone. Let me know how you like it, there's a link at the bottom for commenting.

	An Eye for an Eye	June 1, 2012
	Although Oracle has suffered a resounding defeat in Google v. Oracle, I cannot help but feel that Oracle's assertion that APIs are copyrightable was a treacherous attempt to destroy all of software development… (Continued)

	Victory for Totalitarianism in the United States!	April 27, 2012
	"In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy." — David Korten It seems preposterous, even certifiably insane that the US House of… (Continued)

	John Carter of Mars	April 21, 2012
	How close, and yet how far! It's difficult to enumerate the influence that Edgar Rice Burroughs has had on fiction writers over the past hundred years or so since the publication of A Princess of Mars. One… (Continued)

	Oracle: Death to Object Oriented Programming!	April 18, 2012
	The currently running lawsuit brought by Oracle against Google over Google's use of the Java APIs has made me scratch my head. It may well be that I just don't get it, but from the first two days of the trial… (Continued)

	The road to hell … Is CISPA the new SOPA?	April 11, 2012
	The quality of laws should always be evaluated in light of how they can be abused, rather than how they may serve those whose intentions are and remain good. The Internet reacted strongly against recent… (Continued)

	Bruce Schneier on Post-9/11 Security Practices	March 29, 2012
	Bruce Schneier, a well-regarded security expert, has placed a superb statement on his website regarding "Harms of Post-9/11 Airline Security" measures as carried out by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Not just worth reading, but in my opinion required reading!

	I must be getting old and cranky	January 25, 2012
	First Mozilla decides to break established paradigms, hiding away rather than "ghosting" unavailable GUI elements in menus, then Google decides to up the ante by hiding button functionality at times when the… (Continued)

	XS3D: The Extremely Simple 3D Rendering Engine	August 25, 2011
	Just published XS3D, our Extremely Simple 3D Rendering Engine, which includes source code (licensed under the GPLv3) for your extended programming pleasure. Enjoy!

	Nice job!	August 6, 2011
	Nice job, you Republicans and Teabaggers, sacrificing the nation's economic recovery on the altar of your principles. You are unwashed, misguided, half-wits, and better not cross my path!

	No pictures? Good!	May 5, 2011
	No pictures of the dead body of Osama bin Laden, good! First, offending people (for religious, moral, or simple decency reasons) is rather too low a blow for any civilized nation. We don't want that, we don't… (Continued)

	The Dog is Dead!	May 1, 2011
	Congratulations to all of those who went after the dog and gave that rotten piece of shit what it deserved!

	Upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 to 11.04 results in a serious mess	April 29, 2011
	Canonical (Ubuntu) certainly screwed up with their 11.04 (April 2011) release: I could go on a rant here, because the problems are just way more than what I could consider a "glitch". This upgrade is diseased… (Continued)

	Get Rid of the Speed Bumps!	April 8, 2011
	I find it difficult to believe that the very people who are causing the impending government shutdown are still being paid. Is this not the height of hypocrisy, and a slap in the face of everyone who these… (Continued)

	Self-publishing in the Digital Age	March 23, 2011
	Unless you've been living under a rock for the past fifteen years or so, you've sensed at least that the Internet (of which the World Wide Web is the most visible part) has been responsible for a fundamental… (Continued)

	Firefox 4.0: Retarded User Interface Idea	March 15, 2011
	Why, oh why has Mozilla removed several functions from the menus in Firefox 4.0, such as 'close window', 'close tab', and 'web search'? If I didn't know them already, it would now be… (Continued)

	Trust Respect and Freedom	February 11, 2011
	What we have seen recently in Tunisia and now in Egypt demonstrates that the leaders of every nation must consider carefully by what mandate they lead. It could be argued that all leaders serve themselves to… (Continued)

	Egypt is Free	February 11, 2011
	Congratulations to the People of Egypt! Determination, unity, and peaceful determination have seen you through. I hope that these values are indicative of Egypt's future, its relationship with its neighbors… (Continued)

	Is ASCAP a Four Letter Word, like RIAA and MPAA?	June 29, 2010
	You know, I think I've just about had it with the likes of RIAA, MPAA, and now the ASCAP, too. These institutions are turning themselves into the unwashed anus of the world. I would like to ignore them, but the… (Continued)

	Blackboard vs. Desire2Learn: Finally resolved!	December 23, 2009
	It's about time that this travesty comes to an end: Blackboard and Desire2Learn have settled their litigation through a cross-license agreement. The question, of course, is why Blackboard chose to litigate in the first place. That's like shooting first and asking questions later. What a waste, Blackboard. At least everyone can finally get on with the important stuff.

	TreeDiff	August 12, 2009
	We've just released TreeDiff, a nifty little Java tool (for the command line only, at this time) to perform comparisons on two directory trees. Have a look!

	Blackboard vs. Desire2Learn: Is it over at last?	July 28, 2009
	Despite the fact that I still own a nice chunk of shares in Blackboard, I was rather disappointed, even angry, with my former employer for sueing Desire2Learn based on patent infringement. I believe in… (Continued)

	Everybody's doing it, so why…	July 28, 2009
	It's been high time for an overhaul of our website and, with renewed interest in Weblord, the time has finally come. So, sit back, click around, and see what we've got to pique your interest.

	Weblord @ Aitken-Sadlik Architects	July 24, 2009
	Using Weblord, the architectural firm Aitken-Sadlik Architects has just released a major upgrade of their web site, consisting of over 200 pages. Check it out!

	Nikon CoolPix S550 Not a USB Mass-Storage Device?!	March 1, 2009
	Don't get me wrong, I love my Nikon CoolPix S550, except for one tiny little problem: Getting the images off the camera is an enormous pain in the ass. Yes, it is. See, for some reason Nikon decided not to… (Continued)

	Congratulations, America!	November 4, 2008
	Well, who wouldda thunk it, reason prevails after all! I had almost (almost!) given up hope for this nation, but it seems that enough of us got wise and made it clear that we were so totally on the wrong path… (Continued)

	Four More Years of This Shit?!	September 16, 2008
	American Politics has recently gone from the lofty idealisms of our Founding Fathers to the rape of almost everything that they stood and fought for. Our freedoms are attacked almost daily, not by terrorists… (Continued)

	Hell hath frozen over!	May 22, 2008
	If this were the first of April, I'd give no credence to the news, but it's a good many weeks too late for an April's Fool joke, so I'm a bit speechless to read and hear what I would never have thought to see… (Continued)

	Open Letter to Al'Qaida	June 6, 2007
	Dear Al'Qaida — Thank you for attempting to terrorize the "Free World". We, the powerful and the rich, who set policy and control so much of the world's culture and wealth, we benefit immensely from your… (Continued)

	The Penguin that SCO'red	March 27, 2007
	SCO looks to me like the black knight in Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, affecting a competent stance and a powerful image at first, but quickly revealing himself to be as clueless as they come and unwilling to face the facts as each blow of the battle cost him another limb. SCO is much like that black knight, reduced to a joke at our feet, unable to ever get up again. Next up, Darl McBride will declare it a draw.

	Java is Free!	November 14, 2006
	Hard to believe that Java is now Free. Considering the scope of Java's use, Sun Microsystem's choice of the GNU General Public License (GPL) may be one of the most significant liberations to date. If nothing else, GNU/Linux distributions can now include Java directly, Java software can become a standard component of GNU/Linux, and The Java Trap is hereby no more.

	The Law Attacked!	September 20, 2006
	Efforts are afoot in congress to pardon the "President" for the illegal, wholesale spying on Americans, and retroactively declaring these activities legal after all. The law is respected only if it applies to… (Continued)

	The Law Upheld!	August 17, 2006
	Back in December it came to light that the federal government was spying on Americans without the use of legal warrants. It's not that warrants were unavailable, the government just chose to ignore existing… (Continued)

	Why so little sympathy?	July 21, 2006
	After ten days of war the world's patience with Israel is beginning to diminish. Another ten days might see the world getting really fed up with the humanitarian disaster. But this crisis is really to be… (Continued)

	Sheer Brilliance	July 13, 2006
	After witnessing how successful (NOT!) Hamas has been in winning from Israel a prisoner release in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier, it seems Hezbollah was unable to resist the temptation of giving the… (Continued)

	Soviet America	March 13, 2006
	Quite frankly, I am astounded at the massive assault on freedom that is underway in this country, the United States of America: illegal spying on citizens is abominable and ought to get the "President" impeached (or does only a blowjob from an intern warrant impeachment these days?) but now they're looking to make it illegal to disclose the president's illegal activities? What is this? Soviet Russia?!

	Time to Settle Up with Sony BMG	March 9, 2006
	The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is looking to make sure that consumers get to participate in the settlement process of the EFF's class action lawsuit against Sony BMG. This class action lawsuit was… (Continued)

	Astounding, just astounding!	February 22, 2006
	Someone draws a cartoon, asserting a connection between Islam and violence, and how do Muslims protest? With violence! (/me slaps forehead) Can they affirm the cartoon any better? Can they look any more stupid? If it weren't such a tragedy I'd be rolling on the floor, laughing. Idjets! Idjets!! This sums it right up…

	Terrorists in Power	January 26, 2006
	It would have been wrong not to allow Hamas to participate in the democratic election process. Democracy isn't about exclusion but about empowerment and letting the voice of the people be heard, even (or… (Continued)

	Whoa!	December 16, 2005
	I'm not sure what worries me more, the fact that the "President" authorized it or that 31% of about 81,000 people chose to vote "Yes" to the question "Should the government have been given the authority to spy… (Continued)

	Devastating Diebolt Voting Machine Hack Proven	December 15, 2005
	A vote that should have been Yes:2 No:6 was hacked in a demonstration to come out Yes:7 No:1 with only moderate level access to the voting machine (in an election, thousands would have such access), no password… (Continued)

	Open Document Format (ODF) vs. Microsoft XML (OOXML)	November 28, 2005
	Countless companies, cities, jurisdictions, states, and nations have awoken to the fact that locking up their data in proprietary formats, such as Microsoft's .doc, has chained them to the unending upgrade… (Continued)

	Laptop Overheating?	December 10, 2004
	A little tip for those with laptops that are a bit older, and may have some trouble with the slab overheating and then shutting down unexpectedly or with a dire warning before all goes dark: clean out the fan… (Continued)

	Divided States of America	November 5, 2004
	Four years ago, Gore won the election, but amidst the struggle to get every vote counted and then due to the supreme court's intervention, he was essentially forced to concede the presidency to Bush. Through… (Continued)

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