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20050531-1540

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Not every family is in the financial or physical situation to be able to provide the care that an elderly relative can often come to need. Ideally of course, you would take care of your family yourself, live in close proximity, or as health deteriorates, have a parent or grandparent move in. Still, I recognize, have seen in [...]

20050531-1344

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

In other interesting news, a Kentucky judge has held up the Kentucky Amendment banning homosexual “marriages.”[1] I wonder how long until this one is appealed to the federal courts and overturned.

[1] http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/632/05-27-2005/e43400073b26d217.html

20050531-1056

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Lots and lots of non-news in my scan today. I am starting to think that I have once again exhausted my ability to be significantly interested in national or world events. Still, a few things did catch my eye. Why is it that people get this idea that you must prioritize the world’s problems and ignore anything [...]

20050526-1453

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

This week I have been trying to get GNOME to sit up and realize that changing from focus theft to pop-under is less than ideal.[2][3][4][5] After a somewhat rocky start,[1] I finally seem to be making progress. This pleases me not only for the narcissistic reasons, but because it really will make a difference to our users. For all [...]

20050525-1026

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Chris also recently commented that it is surprising that various operating systems do not automatically incorporate encryption into your basic profile. The following was my reply.

As to why windows *did* not, remember that of the various versions of windows that came before win 2k and XP, only NT and “windows for workgroups” (not [...]

20050525-1009

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Last week Chris sent me an article talking about the use of encryption in the Revolutionary War and colonial periods.[1] Turns out that various encryption methods were very well known and quite widespread for government, business and interpersonal correspondence. So wide spread was the use of encryption, that the courts “have not treated those persons who have used encryption, ciphers, [...]

20050525-0931

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Okay, yes, I am vain, but this week’s Debian Weekly News email just made my day.

Debian-Volatile Strategy. The volatile team [29]pondered to create a second [30]volatile archive with less strict criteria. This would help packages such as [31]Gaim that need to be updated during the lifetime of sarge in order to support modified protocols. They are also looking for ways [...]

20050524-1733

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

The CS Monitor has an article today talking about the state of “second wives” in France.[1] Apparently France only very recently outlawed polygamy, and a number of African men have come to France bringing multiple “wives” and the children of both “wives.” The article highlights the problems that come from lack of enforcement since the 1993 outlawing, and the [...]

20050524-1645

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

Ars is talking about a flash hard drive from Samsung.[1] At 16Gb max, it is, by today’s standards, too small for most desktop use. We are all spoiled by the massive 40Gb, 80Gb, and bigger hard drives available now, and most people would have trouble getting accustomed to having “only” 16Gb of space now. After all, my old [...]

20050524-1428

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

Congress is trying to push through a bill to create federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.[1] This move comes with lots of promises of future cures, at the cost of lives, but no results at all so far. The promising treatments from stem cells to date come from adult stem cells and from umbilical tube stem cells, neither [...]

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