In the time-honored journalistic tradition of running with a story because we've got pictures, here are a few shots I took on my 3-hour drive home after the storms we had yesterday. Update: John Ruberry got some good shots of the damage. … [Read more...] about Wind and Rain!
Have You Been Trying to Reach Me?
I upgraded to Microsoft Outlook 2003 a few weeks ago, and I just sort of assumed that if anything went wrong there'd be error messages or something. It turns out that Outlook and the Windypundit mail server aren't talking to each other. I didn't notice because I have about half a dozen email accounts coming into Outlook and all the others seem to be working. I finally … [Read more...] about Have You Been Trying to Reach Me?
Who Should See Breathalyzer Source Code?
DUI lawyer Lawrence Taylor has been writing for a while about the resistance by breathalyzer manufacturers to various legal attempts by defense lawyers to get a peek at the source code for software that controls the machines. As a civil libertarian and software developer, I have mixed feelings about this. I can certainly understand why the defense would want to know more … [Read more...] about Who Should See Breathalyzer Source Code?
More From the Model Shoot
As my way of apologizing to poor Ken Lammers, who visited here to see the pretty girls and found my plunger story instead, here are a couple more shots from last month's model shoot. (I am way behind in processing these photos.) … [Read more...] about More From the Model Shoot
Evil Lawmaking: Piling On
I remember back when I was a kid and I did something wrong, sometimes my parents would handle it separately, and I'd get yelled at or punished by both of them for the same misdeed. It seemed so unfair. Lawmakers do much the same thing. Only instead of doing it at the same time, they do it one after another. Not a year goes by that my state legislators don't bump up the … [Read more...] about Evil Lawmaking: Piling On