Dave Kellam

Read this interview with Bush. He doesn’t come across that well. I guess that’s what happens when you have to speak off the cuff. Some excerpts:

President Bush: I’m a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.  Again, I wish it wasn’t true, but it is true. And the American people need to know they got a president who sees the world the way it is. And I see dangers that exist, and it’s important for us to deal with them.

Every president except Jimmy Carter has been involved in a war of some sort. That makes all but one president a war president.

President Bush: Now, I know I’m getting repetitive, but I’m just trying to make sure you understand the context in which I was making decisions.

Repeating yourself?

Russert: [about Kerry] Did you know him at Yale?
President Bush: No.
Russert: How do you respond to that?
President Bush: Politics.  I mean, this is—you know, if you close your eyes and listen carefully to what you just said, it sounds like the year 2000 all over again.
Russert: You were both in Skull and Bones, the secret society.
President Bush: It’s so secret we can’t talk about it.

Ahhhh yes, the secret society that’s so secret that no one can talk about it. And the “If you close your eyes and listen carefully to what you just said.”

Update: An article about the speech that’s worth reading as well.

I’m giving serverside spam filtering a shot right now instead of the Apple Mail junk filters (which do a relatively good job). We’ll see how it goes, it shouldnt be bouncing anything, but if it gets filtered poorly i might not see it for a couple of days. So far, it’s not doing a great job, it let three spams in right away. I’ll give it a chance though. Now to deal with the referer log spam that I’m getting.

I’ve said before, when I’m busy I post and when I’m not busy I don’t post. Well, that’s a lie. There are sometimes that you really are busy and internet surfing procrastination (to extensive weblog levels) is impossible. It should be scaling back a little bit this week, allowing more opportunities to peruse the interweb.

Uhh, news news news… nothing too exciting. Janet Jackson showed her tit on television to shift media attention away from her brother. Oh my god! Look that was a tit on television! OMG! Shock and awe. Something something blah cultural values blah blah children fuck blah whatever. The Europeans and millions of American’s with specialty cable channels are waiting for you in full bare-breasted splendor on this side of the curtain. Join with us and we shall ride over the edge of this cliff, hand-in-hand with the devil.

Other news items to check out this article on the underground community of virus writers. Like most of the computer intelligencia they fell mistunderstood. Also take a look at this ad (local) for Microsoft FrontPage with new professional coding tools that will help you produce clean code faster. Look for the part of the ad where the make an html mistake. Oh! Laugh riot.

n. Often adduced as the reason or motivation for
expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being
that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had
features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were
installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method
of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only
experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain
jazz: “Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.” (Feminists please
note Fats Waller’s explanation of rhythm: “Lady, if you got to ask,
you ain’t got it.”)

Here’s a table with how much caffeine various products contain (it’s American, but a lot of things are the same here)

Diet Coke 12 ounces – 46.5
Coca-Cola classic 12 ounces – 34.5

I guess that might be one of the reasons why I gravitate towards diet coke. That and coca-cola can just be too damn sugary sometimes.

I’ve been doing some artwork for the back page of The Journal (for the short story contest). The first one came out today, unfortunately it was printed in black and white, while I was told to design in colour. Anyway, I posted the colour version here if you want to see it.

The Pope hosted a breakdance party over the weekend. Yup, papal breakdancing. I really don’t know what to say, other than wishing I had found it yesterday. You know those times when you want to make up news and create photoshopped graphics but then the news event actually happens? Yeah.

Hah hah, I’m tired… whooooo!!! The paper is done. It may be good, it may not be… it was a long day/night though. We need another graphics person, so it doesn’t have to be me.

Here’s a good little utility that displays your unread mailcount (in all boxes) in the menu bar. Handy if you’re hiding the dock.

An article in the New York Times magazine on the death of indie film. Or the rise and fall of indie or whatever you want to call it. You can only make so many indie films before become part of the industry. A gem of an indie film that’s made made on a shoestring budget will appear again — they always do. Indie film directors like to make movies. If the people with money like the movies, they offer the directors some cash. They still make movies they want to see, but they have money to do it with; you just don’t get a heartbreaking story attached to the making of it. Real indie directors make documentaries.