Today is the 40th anniversary of the Kent State Massacre. It seems that, still, the government is out-of-touch.

In 1965, Jack Weinburg, leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, coined the phrase “Don’t trust anyone over 30″. Of course, the Constitution mandates that, to be elected to the Senate, you must be over 30. [...]

So I DJed at Friday Night Blues the other night, and by most accounts it rocked

I could tell from the DJ seat people were enjoying it. Nobody milling about, everybody dancing who was willing and able. Numerous people gave me pats on the back and I heard one complaint “Dammit, Barak, stop playing [...]

A few days with it and everything seems to settle in a bit.

Network card works better (maybe when it got the updates something clicked) but the network is SLOWER. I dunno what they did wrong, but my Samba NAS takes forever, until I read this: http://jamespo.org.uk/wp/archives/190 — This seems to make it work fairly [...]