For Sale: BreakLog.com
Breaklog.com is now for sale at GoDaddy auctions. Right now, it is hosting a wiki that was meant to catalog hardware defects in most computers. I never had the time to work on it, and it is now for sale. I will be using the money to help pay my college loan off, so I can enroll full time again. Taking best offer.
Can Campaign Finance Reform Laws be Worse than None?
I just read an editorial that was posted last Sunday on FoxNews on campaign finance reform. Campaign finance reform is generally pushed as necessary to keep corruption out of politics; however, what happens if you cannot raise enough money because of the restrictions it places. John Lott of Fox News gives the example of a virtual nobody that wants to run for President. That person cannot hope to raise the millions that the millionaires backed by the DNC or RNC have available to use. In effect, the only way someone can become President is if they are weathly. You can read the article here.
Personal Hurricane Responsibility
Pensacola News Journal ran an article on the front page the on Thursday about how Florida residents need to be responsible during a hurricane, and stop relying on the government. This is critical for Florida to be able to quickly rebound from a destructive hurricane. People have grown accustomed to the government doing too much for them. Before a hurricane, we should be stocking up on bottled water and food, and not rely on the government to give it to us. This will allow the government to work on other tasks, rather than baby-sitting and feeding adults. With the government free from the unnecessary burden of feeding the populace, it can use the money to help rebuild damaged areas.
KillSpotlight
Just wrote my first Mac App: KillSpotlight. It removes the Spotlight menu from the menu bar for people that hate it. Download here for Mac OS 10.4.
Top-Level Menu bar for GNOME
Ubuntu Forums has a post about a patch for GTK that moves the menu bars of GTK and Java/Swing apps to the top of the screen, just like MacOS. It looks like a better implementation than what KDE has. I wish this was available back when I was still using Linux — I would have been happier with it.
Looking Glass...
