My computer gives me a fortune everytime I log into it. I thought this was particularly applicable:
Lackland’s Laws:
1. Never be first.
2. Never be last.
3. Never volunteer for anything.

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It turned out that one of the motherboards I got from the two computers I brought home from work was bad. Some sort of power input problem. My friend Eva and I had initially thought it may have been a bad power supply (it was new), but after having tested that on one [...]

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My DNS project has reached a new stage: an operational BIND 9 daemon running under OpenBSD 4.0. The machine that this is running in is a free Dell desktop computer I got from work when they parted out their systems during a company-wide upgrade programme. Thanks to the following website for the help:
http://www.kernel-panic.it/openbsd/dns/dns2.html
The [...]

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When Lisa and I first met, she introduced me to the Mongolian Chicken dish, served at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant across the street from the faculty offices at San Jose State.  “Little Palace” was a small kitchen behind a doorway without a door (reminiscent of my time served in Florida), a soda machine against the back [...]

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One of my pet peeves is the Christiano-evangelistic belief that animals and women are lower forms of life.
I have heard this statement all my life, “they don’t deserve to … because they’re animals, we’re people.”  Another variation is, “men should exercise authority in the house because we’re men; women should not extend their authority beyond [...]

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