Alberto Gonzales has been sworn in as Attorney General.
This is an American tragedy.
If I am appointed to a jury in Federal Court, I will vote to acquit. If the prosecution is led by a criminal, how can you trust any evidence they put forward?

I signed up for my first race of the season today. The oddly named Stanford Treeathlon.
The other oddity is that the 500 meter swim is about 4 laps of the perimeter of DeGuerre pool. It will be nice to go back to the pool where I became a swimmer.
It is February 21st.

Dave Pollard is blogging on the ten most important ideas of 2004 related to blogs and the Internet. He is thinking big. There is a more recent post here that covers business and the economy. A third post on politics and society is promised.
One point he touches on is a different way that blogs [...]

I am becoming more familiar with Movable Type. Basically I am satisfied with it, and it facilitates the process of publishing this blog, but here is what I consider to be an oddity.
Movable Type has categories. I think that I want this. I want it for myself, because I am using this blog partially as [...]

There goes a few hours of my life that I’ll never get back.
I was doing some basic maintenance on my home desktop system and I had some extra time while the disk was defragmenting, so I decided to renew my subscription for Norton AntiVirus. The Live Update feature had been nagging me for a week [...]