The Minutemen in Arizona

 From Sue: Guys with guns and no jobs.  If they had jobs, they wouldn’t be in the Arizona desert.  Guys with guns.  They can’t go down to the docks and prevent Chinese-made goods from coming in. They can’t go down…

All pope funeral, all the time

Well hey, it’s an easy news story isn’t it? Stand in St. Peters Square and interview mournful passers-by. To some, the Pontiff was a divisive figure John Paul muzzled liberal theologians and brought about a decline in the number of…

Yahoo gets it

Yahoo isn’t flashy. However they have a huge amount of highly useful free and premium services. I’m using Y! Plus now, it’s $1.99 a month, and installs its own browser that has lots of custom and advanced features for when…

Thousands protest Schwarzenegger benefit

Raucous S.F. rally at his fund-raiser for ballot measures Thousands of noisy protesters outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel greeted Governor Schwarzenegger as he arrived in San Francisco for a fund-raising dinner. CBS 5 report by Sharon Chin. KPIX-TV San Francisco. Quicktime…

White notebooks

It used to be that no-name clone notebook computers were low end and unreliable. This no longer true. I recently got a Wintec KN1 notebook, and it’s state of the art – 15.4 inch wide screen, every port imaginable, Pentium…