HELIOLITH

Driving home from work on Friday night I was listening to KPFK 6:00 news, which in part plays Free Speech Radio News. That evening, FSRN ran a special report presented by Azania Al-Shabazz, a 6th grader at Crossroads Middle School in Harlem, New York. I was so in awe of the entire spot […]

I love reading and wish more of it upon myself and others. Partially in the selfish hopes that participating will grant me several years of literary bliss, (ha!) I’ve chosen to replicate this book-survey meme Saheli passed on to me.
You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
The Kin […]

Thank you to the people of Italy…
…for crying out against the bogus war on Iraq. Finally, we hear a commitment to bring your soldiers home, even though it may be too little, too late. My condolences for all of the deaths you’ve suffered because of being put in harm’s way for a […]

I instant messaged with a friend in Italy after the shooting of Nicola Calipari, the Italian secret service officer who died by taking bullets? shrapnel? a single round to the temple while heroically throwing his body over Giuliana Sgrena’s. She is the Italian journalist who had just been released from being a hostage […]

(Fast Foward to ENGLISH at the End)
Mujeres valientes: ¿enemigos del estado?
Hablamos de Dora María Téllez, Giuliana Sgrena, y Digna Ochoa.
Hay trés mujeres en las noticias de los últimos trés días que han sido víctimas de los abusos de poder. Sus historias no son directamente relacionadas, pero las tomo como otros ejemplos del maltrato a […]

Sometimes it seems that from the moment I wake to the moment I lay down to sleep I am racing to accomplish tasks and learn things. The cycle is worsened when I miss the mark, and get less than the required 8 hours of sleep (which is usually). Although I frequently fall back […]

My latest obsession? Linux. Class I’m taking this quarter (after 2 years away from school)? Intro to Unix/Linux. Online lessons I’m following? Linux.org/lessons Ok, so I’m a latecomer to the geeky realm of one of the world’s most efficient, powerful, customizable, and innovative operating systems. Until I downloaded […]

It’s well-known that during wartime down-time, U.S. soldiers sometimes play first-person-shooter games like Halo on Xbox or PS2 consoles. It has even been said that these games help with in-the-field shooting accuracy (as well as helping surgeons’ accuracy during surgery). I’ve always hoped somehow we could get political leaders to challenge each other […]

It has been a rough week for the people of La Conchita, California and everyone connected to their community. Today was the funeral of our friend Vanessa Bryson, the one that I reported was missing in my last entry. The Ventura County Star has a good article called, “10 victims, 10 stories: La […]

If you sell technology that has the ability to serve a given function, it is a little weird to disable or ‘nerf’ that function.
For example, if I buy a dvd over the internet from Spain –which I did a few years back– I expected it to work out-of-the-box (it was one by Alejandro […]