Today I braved the sticker-shock of a “last minute” flight reservation. Ouch. Not much I could do about that though — the University was tight-fisted with the financial aid refund check and wouldn’t let me pick it up requiring, instead, that it be mailed to west bumblefuck[#] before I got a hold of it. No [...]
Sometimes I wish I could sound as pretentious and arrogant as Dave Winer: I may understand why people seem to write me out of the stories of mine they rewrite. Mitch Kapor says we’re all spending our careers implementing Dave Winer’s ideas. That’s nice but I always implement my ideas first, and sometimes it takes an [...]
The Washington Times is reporting that some UN socialist is condemning the US’s 15 million dollar donation to the earthquake relief effort as “stingy.” U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland suggested that the United States and other Western nations were being “stingy” with relief funds, saying there would be more available if taxes were raised. [...]