A Bit of This and That Blog

Open Source software has become more popular and more readily available than ever before. Open Source software is free and public software that has only one requirement - share and make available any code changes.
Now, in order to maintain his monopoly, Bill Gates of Microsoft fame is claiming that the free open source software is [...]

Wow.
I have been really neglectful about being online and reading blogs. I have only managed to update my blog semi-weekly, but that’s about it. So many projects and what not.
I found out that Just Julie recently went through some surgery and I wasn’t aware of that. I didn’t get the chance to wish her well. [...]

Yet another way to demonize smokers.
The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) Film Rating board has decided to add the words or reference to persons smoking in movies as part of their rating system. As they put it, any illegal acts of smoking in a film were already rated, but now they want to include [...]

Mac users beware, this is a rant regarding that loathsome icon that is plastered on websites which say “Made on a Mac”! Who cares? It’s HTML, people! It’s not like the Mac does anything different with the coding and HTML in order to cause it to appear as it is supposed to in a web [...]

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.  ~Johnny Carson
Ewww…a dentist trip is coming in my near future. Unfortunately, some extensive dental work. And Pricey!
I have always hated going to the dentist. There just doesn’t seem to be a decent one out there that [...]

Not THAT kind of pipe! A traditional smoking pipe. It’s one of the cheaper kinds, but hey, it’s a start.
I am trying to wean myself off of cigarettes and into pipe smoking. Not neccessarily healthier, but better than inhaling since you don’t (or at least aren’t supposed to) inhale pipe tobacco. I was always intrigued [...]