Yes, my computing environment at home is Wintel, and I’ve continued to use Microsoft Outlook for email to this point just as a matter of course. Apparently, there’s a known–though not widely publicized–bug in which once your personal folders file (by default the outlook.pst file) reaches 2Gb in size, it immediately and always becomes corrupted; […]
Well, well, well… I really didn’t think they’d go this far, and certainly not so overwhelmingly, but in a lopsided 22-2 vote last night the board of the Log Cabin Republicans actually has decided not to endorse President Bush for re-election. [New York Times: Gay Activists in the G.O.P. Withhold Endorsement] In a statement afterward, […]
A depressing article in last week’s Washington Post notes that conservative, religious Americans are breeding more rapidly than their liberal, secular counterparts, who aren’t having enough children to offset natural population decline. It goes on to state that, since “most people, particularly if they have children, wind up with pretty much the same religious and […]
Conservative site Lucianne.com posted a link to a news article about President Clinton’s bypass surgery. Many of the responses exhibit a truly horrific degree of hatred and inhumanity. Some of the worst examples: I at least hope he lives long enough to see JFK AND Hildabeast go down in flames. Then he can go down […]
Jeff’s not the only one with new toys. During my blogging hiatus, I bought myself a new computer too, a [ed. note: Gene, you might want to stop reading now, lest you lose any respect you might still have had for me] Dell Dimension XPS (3.4GHz P4, 2Gb RAM, 240Gb HD, 256Mb Radeon video, DVD […]
On the other hand, intellectually at least I know my life really isn’t so bad. I have a stable, decent-paying–if not especially satisfying, creative or challenging–job; I own my own condo, which continues to appreciate in value almost obscenely; I can afford to travel, eat at nice restaurants, give to charitable causes and buy all […]
Recently I’ve been feeling somewhat dissatisfied, disaffected, disengaged and unmotivated, and at the same time mildly anxious–about my health, my future, my career, the direction the country is headed under this administration and the likelihood of four more years of eroded civil liberties, loss of trust and respect in the international arena, and growing authoritarianism […]
June: My eldest nephew graduated from high school. Jeff and I went to the Madonna concert. We also saw The Blue Room at Arlington’s Signature Theatre. We had a long New York weekend during their Pride, during which we celebrated our one-year anniversary. While there we saw Bombay Dreams, Assassins, and Rent. I took a […]
Yes, despite all evidence to the contrary, I am still alive. No promises, but for the moment I’m back, if tentatively. If I stick around this time, I’m also hoping to give the design a makeover–at the very least change the colors–but there’s no point in waiting for that before starting to write again. In […]
Oddly, just since Saturday I’ve received several new comments on a post–“Virginia is for haters”–published nearly a year ago noting Virginia’s historical stance against miscegenation (fighting all the way to the Supreme Court in the 1967 Virginia v. Loving case that ultimately resulted in that court’s striking down of anti-miscegenation laws) and parallels to statements […]