I honestly never thought that I would see the day that I would post a “last post” entry here at LiveJournal. When I joined LJ in 2003, I thought that it was a wonderful service, run by wonderful people who believed in two values that I hold dear: freedom, and open source. While LiveJournal still provides Open Source software, in recent days they ( Read more... )

While the United States is busy wasting our tax dollars trying to impose “freedom” on the rest of the world, everyone is looking the other way while a major transgression against our rights is taking place right here at home: Microsoft is trying to claim that the world is violating it, and Microsoft wants to go to war with the world; namely, with ( Read more... )

I so should not be up this late, because, well, I have to be up early in the morning. As it is, though, I’ve been having trouble sleeping through the night. This is, well, not all that good ( Read more... )

The bill itself, and the beliefs of the senators who are sponsoring it, are rather scary things. First off, the senator believes that the ability to build up a music collection is a new thing. Have we not had tape decks that, for years, we could use to record the regular broadcasts of radio? Are they trying to say that a person with a two-tape ( Read more... )

Even if you do not listen to Internet radio stations such as Shoutcast or Live365 or iTunes radio, this is something that will affect you-it will, if it passes, set a very scary precedent. It will affect us all, should it pass from a bill into law, and I encourage you to do something about this, and to encourage your friends to do something about ( Read more... )

It occurred to me while I was doing some research for an assignment that there actually are areas on the Wikipedia that need to be improved greatly for them to be useful ( Read more... )

Well, the nice thing: Music Choice is currently working. We have a signal quality of “fair” on it at the moment; I hope that will stay that way or improve. The hiccups are minimal enough to actually be able to enjoy the music (for the most part ( Read more... )