While listening to Mrs. Palin’s acceptance speech, I was of course horrified by the civil liberties bit (Here’s hoping…) which is a very serious issue for me. The speech also struck a humorous note with me that I thought I’d share today. The speech was in part intended to be a “get to know me” [...]
The Democratic and Republican conventions are over, and I didn’t get to see any of them on TV – they aren’t broadcast here. Fortunately NPR has posted the audio and transcripts of the various speeches so I’ve been able to keep up with my iPod, albeit a day or two late. They have been interesting, [...]
In the seven years I’ve been going to Burning Man as part of the theme camp Black Rock City Animal Control, (and as an attorney who’s always curious about such things) I’ve had several occasions to read and research Nevada law. Somehow though, I have never seen this little gem governing what the police may [...]
We discovered this weekend that someone hacked our photo site and added some code to the pages to try to run an ActiveX control – only IE users were affected. Unlike Windows or OS X, there are no automatic updates for our website when a security problem is found in the software we use; it’s [...]
This morning I went to schedule an appointment for a haircut with Africa, whom I have been seeing since she did my hair for our wedding last year. After some small talk we set an appointment and I watched as she wrote the time and “Walker” down. Noticing I was watching, she hesitated, and finally [...]