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Monthly Archives: November 2005

In Search of Decent Headphones

So, on an almost completely irrelevant note, I would like to mention headphones. Specifically, I would like to mention that the vast majority of commonly-available headphones are crap. I am by no means an audiophile, but I can certainly appreciate the difference between good sound and not-so-good sound. I took an interest in headphones because [...]

Comments Spam

So some of you astute readers (ha ha! All three of you) may have noticed that this blog has been literally inundated with spam comments of late. For the last week or so, I’ve had to manually delete hundreds of crap comments advertising party poker and the like. The filters have caught most of them [...]

For Once, I Am Offended

I received the following claptrap in my e-mail box today, and I’m reproducing it verbatim in case you haven’t read it yet: MG Vernon Chong, USAFR, forwarded: This WAR is for REAL! To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country is now facing the most serious threat to its [...]

‘Tis the Season to Overreact

Well, I’m still alive, for what it’s worth. I’ve been ignoring the ol’ blog, largely because I haven’t had much of anything interesting to say. Sure, there’s been plenty to talk about between August and November, but how much of it will we remember ten years from now? If our government (which, I will remind [...]