I’ve been thinking a lot about guns lately…again. I want to own one. Or more. But why, I ask myself. It’s no secret, I think, that I really love guns, the objects themselves, but despise and hate and dread the use of guns and what they do. Kind of a weird contradiction, I suppose. Maybe [...]
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TOOLS TO FIGHT SPAM!
I think I may have already mentioned the godsend that is MT-Blacklist, an add-on to Moveable Type Blog programs which help prevent spam comments. So far it’s worked EXCELENTLY! Now, I’ve discovered something else to fight spam in E-mail: SpamArrest. It’s a program that filters your mail, and requires senders to send a one-time-only verification [...]
READ MORE »Proof vs. Faith: Biblical Discussion redux
Again I direct your attention to the blog entry: http://blog.celticbear.com/archives/000053.html . Good discussion. Aeron (cool name, by the way,) makes some very good points and well stated as well. I appreciate discussions (OK, it’s almost a debate really, but a really friendly one) with educated, intelligent people who show respect. =) Anyway, something that was [...]
READ MORE »Biblical Discussion: Truth or the path to Truth
Staring as comments to one of my past posts, a discussion has sprung up. (Yeah! Someone reads the blog! glee) http://blog.celticbear.com/archives/000053.html Check it out; it’s interesting (LOL and not just because I’m writing half of it.) It’s a rousing, thought provoking discussion, I think. =) Oh, you may want to copy-n-paste it into a word [...]
READ MORE »Spammers Must Die…Painfully!
So I wake up this morning to find my Inbox containing a few dozen messages alerting me to comments submitted on my blogs. Yeah, a few dozen. So I check it out and they’re all spam. Some really brilliant fellow used some pre-made script to spam my blog with some advertisement for generic viagra. So [...]
READ MORE »Politics: Regret and Confidence
Been a long time since I’ve blogged. Been busy working on finding a day job, working on Web projects, and running a family. =) Anyway, two topics today: More recent thoughts on Bush and the Iraq war, and current Presidential hopefuls. First, if you’ve read my early blogs, and perhaps my article on the original [...]
READ MORE »Biased Gamer Hatred in the Media
Yeah, I haven’t had much opportunity to post. Maybe during the holiday season I haven’t been getting riled up enough about anything to bother venting. Until today. Penny-Arcade’s posting today made me 1st angry then very annoyed (not at Penny-Arcade, but regarding the subjects of the posting) http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2004-01-02 When you get to the paragraph regarding [...]
READ MORE »To Heck in a Handbasket
Odd, I have more time on my hands right now and I haven’t had time to blog lately. Anyway, just thought I’d present some topics of angst and anger, for no other reason than to vent: Lawyer trying to do good, murdered. Anyone who knows me knows I think lawyers are the scum of the [...]
READ MORE »Kennedy Conspiracy Update
It’s been a few days, so some stuff has been forgotten. But after writting the previous entry regarding JFK’s assassination, I watched some more TV. =) And caught a couple of more recent programs…like, THIS year, that does some more investigation to prove/disprove some points: 1. Recent, exacting examination of the Zapruder film has allowed [...]
READ MORE »Kennedy Conspiracy? Maybe…
I’ve said it before: I love conspiracy theories, but I’m not a believer. I believe there are many sentient life forms in the universe, but not only do I not believe the government is hiding any evidence but I don’t believe we’re even being visited by aliens. I believe we did land on the moon [...]
READ MORE »Mother-Whore Complex
This coming Monday, 10 November 2003, there’s a program on TV discussing the theory that Mary Magdalene was actually Jesus’ wife: http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/03/tv.abc.jesus.ap/index.html Evidently based on a poorly written novel “The DaVinci Code”. Which I haven’t read so I can’t legitimately insult it…but I’ve seen portions of it. The hero is a square jawed handsome man [...]
READ MORE »That Sneaky CIA
New documentary about a failed coup in Venezuela in 2002. Now, I’m not exactly a new junkie, but 90% of the time I’m in the car I’m listening to NPR, I read as many articles as I can on cnn.com, and I watch CNN and other news channels now and then. I can’t believe I [...]
READ MORE »1984…2004, Closer and closer
Teenaged girl expelled because of a piece of prose in here diary. I can’t help but think about since 9/11, the “Patriot Act.” The labeling of “anti-American” and “non-patriot” to anyone who expresses disagreement with the Administrations handling of terrorism/Iraq. Prisoners of a “War on Terror” who the Administration is getting away with calling NOT [...]
READ MORE »Battle Redux
Still obsessing over the movie “Battle Royale.” Here’s probably one of the best reviews of the movie, and commentaries on why it’s a poignant film with sociological meaning and not just an action flick: http://www.destroy-all-monsters.com/battleroyale.shtml Pay close attention to the last three paragraphs if nothing else. Another excellent site on the movie, with a pretty [...]
READ MORE »Can We Get Any More Moronic?
http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/23/technology/grandtheft.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes It seems some more ghouls who a) Want to make money off of tragedy, b) Are displacing sincere grief they need to deal with in a more healthy way, by casting blame where it doesn’t belong, have found a scapegoat. A death and an injury caused by a couple of teens sniping drivers on [...]
READ MORE »Battle Royale
Well, I’m obsessed with a new movie now. Not quite as bad as when I was to “Heavenly Creatures,” but I’m spending my lunches and after work doing browsing and searching and reading everything I can find on “Battle Royale.” It’s a Japanese movie made in 2000 about an “underachieving” jr. high class being selected [...]
READ MORE »Did God Provide Morality?
Having a discussion with someone regarding whether “morality” (whatever that can be defined as) was provided by God or if it’s a human biological trait. “Objective morality,” specifically, is what the conversation is about–and I don’t believe in it. There is no such thing as objective morality. The closest you might be able to come [...]
READ MORE »iTunes not that great…YET!
A letter I sent in to Apple’s iTunes site. Just thought I’d share it with you. =) (iTunes is now available for Windows!!) I’d been hoping for an inexpensive method of buying individual songs back when Napster wasn’t even a blip on the media’s radar. And was real excited to hear about iTunes…and real disappointed [...]
READ MORE »DOING Something in Protest
Two items today on people taking a stand and doing something in protest. The 1st, the LA Film Critics Association is cancelling their awards ceremony in protest of the MPAA’s decision to stop sending out screener DVD’s. A move which everyone EXCEPT the MPAA (and the big studios of course) says will hurt the chances [...]
READ MORE »Hacking and Writing
The Feds made a mistake in a hacking persecution? No way! Not possible. =) Granted the guy should not have used his FORMER employer’s resources to garner a mailing list of all their customers and send e-mail out to all of them, whether it was to warn them about a security flaw or not. That’s [...]
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