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I’m one of those weird people that read EULAs, and have refused to install some software based on the rights asserted in them. EA has been on my “Egregious Violators” list since the whole Spore Debacle, but their newly launched downloader, Origins, takes privacy concerns to a whole new level. Origins is required to play [...]

So, the Mayor of Rowlett, John Harper, just resigned under fire from damn near everybody.  He resigned because he said the citizens were just too stupid to let him “govern” them.  It’s just a final example of the level of arrogance and “action before thought”  Mr. Harper brought to city council meetings.
But, Ol’ John wasn’t [...]

It’s easy, when one stays in one place for a long time, to not notice how much one accumulates.  In other words, I have way too much shit.  I’m finding things I didn’t even know I had, things I’d forgotten about, things that defy description, and some things that I just have to marvel at, [...]

I’m packing to move.  This means that I finally have to deal with some of the stuff that up to this point I’ve been able to put aside to “deal with tomorrow”.  It’s a Scarlett O’Hara thing I do.
But, there comes a point where you just can’t keep toting around boxes for decades, refusing to [...]

I just got back from a fabulous week in Chicago spent with a friend of more years than either of us will admit in public, her charming husband and their newest addition; the best behaved baby in the universe. (Also, just about the cutest thing in diapers. And he has that new baby smell. Altogether, [...]