Government is a necessary evil. Mark that last word. While it may be necessary, it is never to be trusted or encouraged. No matter how a government begins, its goals end up being it's own survival and control over your behavior.

Remember that the next time someone says they want to hold political office.

I love my coffee. Plain, black coffee. No cream. No sugar. No cappuccino. Just fresh, plain, black coffee....

As I was driving home from work today I listened to the news on National Public Radio (NPR) as I usually do. They were reading comments they had received from listeners about a story regarding the public announcement that yes, Senator John Edwards had an extra-marital affair....

One of the plugins for Habari that I use on a regular basis is the markup plugin, which allows you to add Html tags to your content as your write through the use of a toolbar rather than having to add the markup by hand....

There are a several of plugins available for Habari to deal with spam. Most people seem to prefer the ones that use outside services such as Aksimet and Defensio. I don't like relying on outside services so I rely on the simple spamchecker plugin that comes with Habari and the simple blacklist checker. The concept behind the simple blacklist plugin ...

Licensing of software is an important, fascinating, and very difficult to understand subject. Developers, some of the people who are affected the most by licensing issues, have the most difficult time understanding the different types of license that are available. I know I do....

I've been blogging for over two years now. Like most people, I started on a service, Blogger in my case. It didn't take me long to want more control than Blogger would give me, so I began looking around and found WordPress. For most of the time since then, WordPress has served me well. I built Shards of Consciousness...

jQuery is a popular Javascript library that sees a lot of use in web programming. It simplifies many scripting tasks and is easily extensible with plugins. ...

When we're blogging, one of the things we don't tend to think about is the state of our database. As with the oil in our car, as long as it works, we tend to ignore it....

A team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is reporting that people who are obese are one of the driving forces behind global warming....