There is one obvious area where the equal pay concept stretches out beyond the male/female paradigm, and that is, of course, the LGBT world. But that conversation, to me, is as easy as saying: wouldn’t it be great if we lived in a society where people all got treated fairly regardless of their minority status?…
Migration Season
Soooooo I migrated servers over the last few days. I got me a fairly inexpensive box, threw Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on it, and migrated all of my assets over to it. There should not have been any down time, the actual switch over should have taken about 2 seconds even though the process ended…
New Site Feature!! Comment Notify!
Just a quick note to commemorate the addition of a nifty new feature from the module Comment Notify. Now you can receive email notifications when someone adds a comment to a post that you have commented on…and the best parts: 1. You don’t need an account to sign up for these notifications, 2. you can…
A Brief Note On Family…
My mom could not biologically have children, something wrong with her insides. My older brother and I were adopted. The family I was raised in as a boy, a chosen/created family, was so ideal, so full of love and warmth and care, so connected and dedicated that I never really questioned my belonging. But I…
“OMG! Help!” or “How to Regain Access to Your Ubuntu Computer Once You Have Lost Your User Name and Password!”
So, have you ever lost a password? Ever forgot your user name after coming up with something pretty nifty that is so unique you could never possibly forget it? Ever bought a used computer off Craigslist with Ubuntu installed and forgot to ask the user name and password? Yeah, well rather than going through the…
Anti-SPAM! or How I secured NousEssence
SPAM! Why should I have to worry about spam, right? This is a pretty low traffic site (sigh) and who’s going to spam on me? I had a post a bit ago about passing a spam right of passage and enabling a bit of security to get around it. Well, the spam dude was not…
The Most Important Factor…(Free Culture and the Body of Politics Pt.2)
So, remembering my previous post about the need to inform a democratic people before they vote I went to YouTube to resurrect a piece I found about why we need to teach civics to the masses. This falls in line with the notion that if you want your Democracy to exist AT ALL, there is…
p90x Round two….NAILED IT! What about you?
Well, three months later and I can say…round two…I nailed it! That’s right, I finished another round of p90x! HA! The measurements and statistics are not in yet (haven’t taken them yet) but I can say that I am comfortably wearing jeans that are 8 inches less round than when I started! HA! Take that,…
Free Culture and The Body of Politics – Micheal Moore’s “Slacker Uprising”
26 Days to go until election day here in the US, and I thought I should admit a cynical fear. To express this fear, it is necessary to remember that in the year 2000, Al Gore was told that, even though he had more votes than the other guy, that he still lost the election….
PSPP – Open Source Statistics (Moving Towards an Open Educational Experience)
Anybody out there who has ever had to analyze any statistical data in any serious way or take a class on stats has been introduced to the mighty SPSS , or Statistical Package for the Social Sciences in long form. This is software which was designed for, is standardized by, and expected for your use…