Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

Examining the detritus of modern society

Entries Comments


Date: June 11th, 2002

A Troubling Situation

11 June, 2002 (20:18) | Political | No comments

While I have few doubts that Jose (Pucho) Padilla, 31, also known as Abdullah al Muhajir was probably doing what the US government says he was doing, that is planning to build and detonate a ‘dirty bomb” there are aspects of how he is being treated that disturb me greatly:

He is a US citizen and [...]

Choice

11 June, 2002 (19:44) | Sociology | No comments

There is a very moving essay by Katie Allison Granju regarding the choice she made when faced with the very real possibility of delivering a severely handicapped child. well worth a read! Loco Parentis
No tags for this post.
Related posts

No related posts.

Adapt or Die

11 June, 2002 (19:06) | Computer | No comments

Thanks to The Laughing Muse for a link to this excellent defence of Open Source Software. It completely and logically destroys the arguments put forth by Microsoft that rail against the OpenGPL.
No tags for this post.
Related posts

No related posts.

Telephony is not the Internet

11 June, 2002 (17:35) | Telecom | No comments

For any of my readers interested in telecommunications I cannot recommend highly enough David Isenberg’s SMART letter. David is on the leading edge of telecommunications and his perceptions of what is going on in that world are always extremely cogent.
He is the foremost proponent of “dumb networks”, that is networks where the intelligence lays [...]

 

Bad Behavior has blocked 2042 access attempts in the last 7 days.

3382609 pages viewed, 206 today
293609 visits, 150 today
FireStats icon Powered by FireStats