Raven's Journal

http://www.blizzard.com/wow/screenshot.aspx?ImageIndex=150&Set=64

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/06/18/INGQCJEDCE1.DTL

<a href="http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=uswa&c=military&id=11738">Wiccan VA Headstone Pentacle Settlement</a>

The Pentacle is now a recognized religious symbol that can be placed on military grave markers.

http://www.wired.com/culture/design/multimedia/2007/04/gallery_mascots

Midnight kicks all their asses!

It's so quiet.  So nice.  So peaceful.

Wait, my boss is in Lansing.

I bet there's no connection between the quiet environment and him being in Lansing.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/turner.prom/index.html

Nothing says "our town doesn't have race issues" like having a white only "private" prom.  This year is the first year this school has had an "official" prom. Also until this year they selected two homecoming queens - one white, one black.

The fallout over the broadcom driver highlights how the open source community is divided into different camps. 

Now in theory, all open source people are working toward the same goals.  Low cost software for the average person, allowing several developers to make a real difference in software, etc...

Somehow in the open source community, you're instantly labeled.  You're a "Linux" or "BSD" person.  Each side touts its own licensing mode as superior to the other one, and claims to produce better work due to their community / philosophy / licensing model, etc...

Over the weekend, BSD and Linux people were engaged in an online warfare over the (admitted) used of GPL code by an OpenBSD developer.  It could have been handled developer to developer privately, but no it had to be shared with the whole freaking world.  Both sides trying to use it as further proof that their software development philosophy is correct and the other side is childish and stupid.

This issue raises a more serious question.  If we're so busy focused on what the "other" open source team is doing - how can we stick to our original goals?  How can we really focus on make in-roads into the average home?  At a certain point, we need to work together.  We don't have deep pockets like Microsoft or Apple.  We need to help each other out.

In a recent MSNBC / Elle survey on cheating, one of the questions was "Which celebrity would be the most likely to tempt you into cheating on your partner?"

1 out of 10 men and women answered Angelina Jolie.

But let's be honest if you're presented with having a meaningless one night stand with Brad Pitt OR Angelina Jolie - who would you chose?

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003565585

Summary: Nine Inch Nails and their record label has started a campaign where they left USB memory sticks in different European venues with tracks from the upcoming album.  Fans can share the MP3's legally in efforts to promote the album.

The RIAA's response, they want the fans to stop sharing the files.  Nine Inch Nails and the record album approved this file sharing so they are quite upset that the RIAA is going after their promotion campaign.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17946596/

I have the day off on Friday!  It's a company holiday! 

http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Yes,_That_0x27_s_Exactly_What_I_Meant.aspx

I have concluded the surviving Beatles don't like money.  At this point, it's silly they haven't put their catalog online.

Since they decided they have all the money they can use, let's stop buying their music.  If you must buy a Beatles record, go to a used music store and buy a second hand record / tape / CD.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/02itunes.html

I packed some generic Motrin and I am quite happy.  Around 4 pm, my fever wanted to return and I took a motrin.  The cough drops are helping a lot especially when I had to talk to the high school students.

Mr. Rogers was a vegetarian.  That just kicks ass.

He was quoted as saying once that he didn't eat anything that had a mother.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17753137/

It's important to have one project as a developer where you don't have to compromise your vision.  If not, you'll be unhappy.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17635140/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17631389/

While I am not active in the MBSD project, I do have a lot of interest in the project (otherwise I would not pay the Internet bill).

I did a quick Google search on MBSD.  Honestly I don't get why every little whiny poster needs to bitch and moan about it being a fork (half of the people don't seem to even know the proper definition of fork and assume distro == fork).  Then they go in the typical discussion of "we don't need more BSD's."

Ok, seriously other people have made these comments. 

If you don't like the project goals or think it's a waste of time and energy - I don't know - DON'T DOWNLOAD IT.  If a project is not popular, it will go away on its own.

Plus, why mention the project in the first place?  Not mentioning a project tends to kill one much faster than writing flame bait posts on the Internet.  Why?  9 out of 10 people may agree with you, but there will be a few who research the project themselves - and some of them may end up liking the project.