From Matthew Yglesias

So what’s happened? Where have the weapons gone? Were they all just destroyed, as Don Rumsfeld’s rosy scenario would have us believe? Are they missing — smuggled out of the country into the hands of al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups? Did the government just lie to us?

Good question.

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Check out these Panoramas from Vienna (Wien). Some cool new architecture on your asses, beeezatches. (via tone

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When was the last time Google didn’t work for you?
These are some people who “get it.” By building a massive cluster of commodity-level computers, they have achieved a remarkable price-performance ratio and handle basically most of the searching that happens on the web. From unreliable parts they cobbled the best service on the [...]

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My company just announced the availability of Enterprise Instant Messaging. For a cost of $1.50/month, I can access an internal-only instant messaging system. It supports “gateway” connectivity to AIM, Yahoo! and MSN. Like they wouldn’t be one hundred percent logging that. Hooray!

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All Apologies, but I’m neck deep in this shit.
Scott relished his morning coffee and his “Today” show. The coffee prepared his mind for the day and imparted a delightful, lingering, rich flavor on his palette for some time afterward. His wife, upon hearing him stumble downstairs to operate the coffee maker remarked how droll it [...]

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May Photo Mosaic is up and accepting orders.
update: I added ALT attributes to each image. Not sure if it’s worth it, but if your browser supports it, you can mouseover each image and get a little caption.

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a mirror of Benji’s (catbird.net) e10k tips.

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It’s a depressing time for massive public projects.
Recent news that the already-poor design of the New World Trade Center (don’t blame me, I voted for THINK) has to be compromised didn’t surprise me. It’s going to be difficult to build the largest penis on the planet smack dab in the middle of Lower Manhattan.
But [...]

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I am scheduled to take the Red Hat engineering certification exam in July, so I decided to download Red Hat Linux to install on my old PC in order to practice and study.
I started downloading ISO images yesterday. So far, I have one and two are still coming down the pipe. That’s a [...]

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Richie Rich cirlce star scribble
We have been here too long
I know it’s hot; I know
I’m tired too.
It’s hard:
Five quarter board.
It’s too well-nailed,
bend it for me
ddub atl-pdx old skool
scagsonational limerick
A Scotsman desiring protection
wears kilts to hide his erection
for wherever he walks
he’s as hard as a rock
yet his boner surpasses detection
/scagsonational limerick
l5p has vampires b.read
thank you and [...]

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So unless Delta decides to rock my world with $148/RT fares to NYC this weekend, we’re still on for Luigi at The Earl Friday night. Everybody in?
As for a pre-party, it’s still undecided. The weather is looking to be an uncooperative beezatch for Bocce on the South Lawn, and I’d like to avoid any [...]

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Damn, looks like somebody figured out most of our tricks! But certainly not ALL!

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Halane and I attended Nathan’s birthday bash on Saturday night and it was a good time. So, happy birthday, Nate, and thanks a lot to both you and Nichole.
It was great to see some of my old Atlanta friends like Clint, Robert, and Sara. And it was nice to meet a few [...]

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So I’ve tried the whole subscribing to RSS thing. It sucks. It sucks moose cock.
I’m rarely at the same computer over and over again (I have one at work, one at home, and one I use to work from home, etc.) and, to be honest, the whole idea of being tied down to [...]

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After the fiber boom of the 90’s, I wouldn’t be suprised if in the near future one couldn’t drill into the ground and strike “oil,” so to speak. One could simply find some fiber, patch in, and build networks. I’m sure that a lot of these companies that ripped up the streets and [...]

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