Yahoo! News - Ga. Evolution Dispute Embarrasses Some

Last week, the morning after the election, I traded quips via email with Scott Ambler, a Canadian IT consultant and the author of several books on software development.

I mentioned to Scott that the success of the religious right in determining the outcome of the election made the Great White North look even more like an inviting if chilly oasis of Liberalism.

This was Scott's reply:

"Strangely enough, at Software Development in September I had 4 or 5 complete strangers come up to me at the conference and ask me how hard it was to emigrate to Canada. A lot of people seem pretty frustrated with the political situation. Welcome to democracy in action.

Actually, from Cleveland your best bet would be to get into a row boat, go across the lake, and claim political refugee status. We'd likely have you set up in a condo on the outskirts of Toronto with a check for a few thousand dollars by the end of the week."

The Mystery Post-it

Just now, after making my regular afternoon Diet Coke run, I discovered a Post-it note stuck to the control panel of the elevator. The contents of that note are exactly as follows:

"Dave says not theirs. They came home w/all their clothes on, but had a great time. Must have been a wild party after they left!"

What does it all mean? How do I get invited to the next party?

Hunt for little green men yields only a pink slip

This story just plain pissed me off. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' dismissal of Charles E. Smith is wildly, incredibly unfair, and the coverage of the story falls far short of explaining the nature of Mr. Smith's "offense."

The software in question is an ingenious screensaver developed by SETI that processes a tiny amount of data during periods when the host computer would otherwise be unoccupied. I've had the same software on my home machine and my work machine for years, as have several colleagues. The software is unobtrusive, and would in no way affect the perfomance of the ODJFS computers, or Mr. Smith, for that matter.

I hope Mr. Smith finds a very good lawyer and sues the bejabbers out of the hyper-reactive morons at ODJFS.

Yahoo! News - Anti-Ketchup Comments Draw Fire From Heinz


And now the phrase "nonpartisan condiment" will be stuck in my head for days.

Yahoo! News - Intel Officials Have Bleak View for Iraq

Is there any question that this entire Iraq fiasco was mismananged from the beginning? George W. Bush entered the Whitehouse with a horrendous record as a businessman, and now we're paying for his blunder with blood. And there's no end in sight, regardless of who wins the election.

Can you say "quagmire?"