Paradox, and Virtue

The unjust, and evil
will call the just
whom they frustrate
hatefull

Moral, ethical, and spiritual soundness
distinguish
frustration
from hatred

Common sense
distinguishes
moral, ethical, and spiritual soundness
from hubris, and delusion

Common sense
Requires thought

General Content for Private Citizens

And those who push us down that they might climb --
Is any killer worth more than his crime?

-- Neil Peart/Rush; The Weapon (Fear Part II); Signals, 1982

Time now for, Today's Meaningless Nonseqiter:

The sugar britched spider monkey congratulated itself with a feigned lament, "I am E---VIL!!" To which the wise, though visibly irritated lackey responded, "Evil? Don't flatter yourself. You're too stupid to be evil."

In the wise man's dream, as if on que, the spider monkey began a strange sort of jig, twisting, and gyrating in place, sometimes seeming to implode, other times, expanding, outstreached like a comin' at'cha 3D movie viewing - startling, yet ineffectual at once. From its face, a gesticulating confusion, there began to emit a song:

I'm a little kleptocrat, short and stout
Watch me adjust the empty knobs
The dopamine squirts out
I'm a little kleptocrat, you're certain there's a need
With smoke and mirrors, I'm your wizard
You satisfy my greed

And then, poof! The mirage was gone. The spell was lifted. Dorothy was back home, safe, with Auntie Em.

Thus ends another episode of Today's Meaningless Nonseqiter. Tune in next time, when the sugar britched spider monkey mutters... er.., uh.., well.., I don't know.. Er.. that is.. something about something or other having to do with, '...and your little dog Toto too!" or some such.

Your average kleptocrat:

Here I am, in this job making, well, better, than say, you. And I really don't even know what the hell I'm doing. I'm pretending. Oh, don't listen to me. That's just the truth serum talking. But seriously. It's like getting something for nothing. I mean, it's delightfull. Like having a license to steal. What fools you all are. Did I just say that out loud?

Diebold's Electronic Voting Software (download it) - Rigging elections - local, national, as in Presidential. The voting software that brought you the mid term congressional elections. There's no reason the public voting system should be held from public scrutiny - it shouldn't be embodied in a black box computer system to begin with. The voting system is one area we can afford to let stay low tech - but Diebold wants to undermind this basic truth by claiming copyright foul. Diebold, copyright law is not a justification for co-opting the democratic process. In other words, screw you Diebold.

Below are some links to some stuff that I've been learning about lately.

Shall ever, your eyes be open.

I think it was Martin Short's Jiminy Glick, flippantly paraphrasing Ricky Martin: "Was it because they were living la vida loca!!??" But I could be just making that up.

Imagine long ago, ancient history time - cave people, struggling just to achieve fire. People had things to really worry about - like lion attacks, starvation, or freezing temperatures. Modern technology, contrary to popular belief, precludes all of this, and more. So why all this world strife? It makes no sense. And as such, we should all be one of two things: Really ashamed, or really pissed off. Which are you? If you're the former, change. And don't worry. After that, you'll be one of the latter in no time.

This is what they do - the world power elite, and their government lackies. They make money - huge money - off of wars. WWI was for profit. WWII was for profit. The Viet Nam war was for profit. The first Iraq war was for profit. 9/11, and the subsequent "War On Terror", and the present Iraq war, was and continues to be for profit.

Make no mistake, if you are in a position of authority, and do not speak out, you are complicit. Yeah, like Bush, I'm saying you're either with us or against us. Except my consequences are peace, as opposed to murderous, want-on, lustfull death, and destruction, for profit.

THEY ARE KILLING US

Smell Something Fishy?

Article Links

Jobs, Votes And Gender: How The Welfare State Works - Hark! It's the elusive, sugar britched, robots of doom! Run for your lives!

Long live the male Chromosome - For decades genetic findings implied men were destined for extinction, and women the ultimate victors in the evolutionary game of survival of the fittest. Ironically, just as compellingly contradictory evidence was discovered, the old male sex chomosome (Y chromosome) degeneration story has been circulating recently on the internet and popular media. But the Y chromosome degeneration theory is, as of June 2003, old science.

In fact, from the new evidence, one might intuit, men are more, if you will, sexually egalitarian than women - men have both an X (female chromosome), and a Y (male chromosome) whereas women have two X chromosomes. And in notoriously masculine fashion, to paraphrase one new Y story, the Y chromosome is a tightly run ship, repairing itself whereas the female chromosome mechanism for maintaining integrity is male dependent X chromosome recombination (can you say Adam's rib? :-)). Interesting.

The lonliness of Noam Chomsky - Now remember: Keep a positive attitude. No, no, not a psychotic delusion! A positive attitude! Things are not as bad as they seem. You just need to watch more television. Strange though, how spot on Noam Chomsky's ideas about our benevolent empire seem. Our leaders will, of course, ignore him, but probably not because they disagree - they're not as stupid as they seem - but because they are merely interested in getting while the getting's good. Where do you think that will leave you and I? Our children, and so on?

The New Deal Built The New World Order - Statist defined. It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt. And when it comes to the State, somebody always gets hurt. More often than not, though your average "statist" is hard pressed to see it, support of many government programs is about like saying, 'I want what the program gives, and I really don't care what you want. In other words, I'm willing to violate your natural rights, in order to get my way, and further, I'm willing to use coercive force to that end.'

One of the simplest terms in which to understand the State: It seeks to "take care of us" and in so doing, it divides us from ourselves, as we're no longer dependent on one another. Ironically though, the State can't even fullfill the promise of caring for us, and more often than not, does more harm than good ( a related article). So are Statists just stupid? No. At least not the powers that be that make a powerfull State possible - rather, they are power hungry. The rest of Statists are just delluded, and seduced with regards to the idea a powerfull State is a good thing.

Al-Qaeda Targets Smokey Bear in Terror Plot - Oh my aching terrorists.

The Politics of Obedience - The case is either thus, or you like your enslavement. And if you do, I wonder why. All that's taken, relative to all that's received in return, does not a preaty picture paint.

Big Bother Gets A Brain - Keep on thinking all the stuff about Big Brother, and George Orwell is just a joke. We are heading for big trouble folks. Thing is, it's only possible, because we keep allowing it. When are we going to say no? When enough people stop making money off of it? That's precisely when it'll stop, but by that time, it'll be too late. As you're lulled complacent, the barn door is closing. Better wake up and realize the price of freedom is eternal vigilence. Freedom does not come without sacrifice.

Our so called leaders are ever quick to tell us, 'We live in a different world. And since 9/11 things have changed.' But ask yourself what's really changed. I'll tell you what's changed. The government, the powers that be - the power elite rich - have the technology to micro manage our lives - for that matter, the world's - and they intend to do so. The so called 'different world' and 9/11 are merely the pretexts. I have no reason lie to you. Nor do most of the independent internet news sites. We're concerned citizens with the perspective to see it, and tell it like it is.

Quoting from the linked article: "This is coming whether we like it or not," said Jim Lewis, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It's not how do we stop the tidal wave. It's how do we manage it."

Don't you just love the way Lewis puts it. It's as if no one has any control over it. Like it's a monster, "whether we like it or not." What's behind such thinking? Do not our tax dollars pay for it? Is not there a big government push for it? Do we not have any say over what we pay for? How could it be, "whether we like it or not"? We have no say over our likes, and dislikes? It's a force of nature? A "tidal wave"? Like an act of God? I think something just tad less rightious than God is at work in this.

Armageddon, Shmarmageddon. And Cheesy Poofs - Is not believing the end of the world's coming, sacreligious?

Why Americans Must Support Kerry - Is Kerry our only hope of saving our country from fascism? Hermes Press thinks so.

Burning Questions, And Foregone Conclusions

Profits vs Society: Must We Choose?

Group Or The Individual - Martin Buber's individualism vs collectivism.

Three excellent articles in a series about the link between second wave feminism, marxism, and gun control - if you're "still not convinced", don't miss these articles: The Disarming Of Black America   Guns and Feminism   Guns and Communism

Capitalist, Sociopathic Society Killers (jump link)

The tech industry is going the way of manufacturing. This article tells the story. Quoting from the article, my comments as a tech professional, and would be social, political commentator follow.

Chris Disher, a vice president of consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton:

"There's just no place left to squeeze" costs in the United States, he said. "We need to look to other areas."

The trouble with the US brand of unrestrained, or perverted capitalism is the squeezing never ends. That's because unrestrained capitalism is an abomination of nature, logic. Unrestrained capitalism requires infinite growth - sounds like a cancer doesn't it? - and infinite growth, in a world of finite resources is impossible. This is not an opinion. It's a fact. Capitalists respond to such charges, screaming "Communist!", or "Socialist!", or any other sufficiently demonized and corrupted political, social notion they can think of. But their argument logically reduces to their being pissed off 'cause someone calls them on their repugnantly, self serving ethics - and no, Ayn Rand's idea of the virtue of selfishness does not speak to the unrestrained capitalist's argument. Hey, but kleptocratically screwing people out of their society is good work if you can get it.

I'm all for capitalism, in spirit, but, unrestrained capitalism defies the very reasoning behind people ever having formed societies to begin with. Unrestrained capitalist mentality spits in the face of the very foundations upon which civilization rests. You make your own logical deductions as to what such a scenario as unrestrain capitalism logically implies, concludes in.

For example, a beginning computer programmer in the United States might earn $60,000 a year, while the same job in India pays less than $6,000.

I'm pretty sure this is an exageration in an attempt to convince us the salary disparity is so rediculously wide that there's just no way US companies can afford to hire US citizens. I made 25k at one of my first programming jobs, and less than that in prior years. Off shore tech workers are probably making something more along the lines of 20k, and starting US programmers can make as little as I mentioned above, though mid to upper 30s sounds reasonable today. And H1B visa programmers - more of whom US companies scream for Congress to allow from off shore into the US - were very often making only a few thousand less than their US counterparts.

Proponents say that even though it does cause some job losses, foreign outsourcing will strengthen the U.S. economy by lowering costs and giving companies more flexibility to hire and fire employees as business conditions change.

Ha! No kidding.

By sending routine jobs overseas and boosting profits, U.S. companies can afford to focus more intensely on cutting-edge research and development, they argue. They say as American companies grow stronger, profits will trickle down to create new jobs in this country at everything from restaurants to car dealerships to universities.

First off, programming is not a routine job. Characterizing the computer professional industry as routine is a blantant example of deskilling supported by the State as evidenced by the dumbing down of public education, and supported by corporate America as evidenced by the article on which I'm now commenting.

As for "trickle down", we've already seen that "trickle down" is a fantasy. It does not happen. The rich grow richer, eating cavier, and whatever else, I personally would not know, as McDonalds throws out unsold hamburgers at the end of the lunch rush - so follow the trickle into a dumpster, 'cause that's about what such fantasy consists of. And I used to think homeless people could somehow live off buy one, get one free coupons, and sweepstakes entries. I wonder if my dentist will take Monopoly money. The only possible trickle down I can think of is into the government's pocket - so these wonderfull economics will make us all slaves to the state, because such an economy's predominately "banana republic" service jobs won't allow for otherwise. The reason trickle down does not work, is because basically, an unrestrained capitalist society is not set up for it, and rather, discourages it - note the McDonalds comment - so in essence, the trickle down argument is self-contradictory. Truth hurts man.

Which begs the question: who'll be buying those cars providing the alledged car dealership jobs? The security guards that protect the capitalist fat cats. And managers, supervisors - oh wait, supervisors are just sophistocated security guards (ever notice how a good percentage of a supervisor's job is convincing you that you're worthless without them, and otherwise obfusicating reality?). Golly. You know you've got your society on when you're one of the rich, suspecting, or suspected. Lovely.

Corporate American management, human resources types, and such, have raised to the level of art, confounding obfusication. The US' contribution to civilization is smoke and mirrors nonsense opitimizing the adage about never arguing with an idiot, 'cause they'll drag you down to their level, and beat you with experince. The reason the world hates America, is the same reason everyone hates a fool. I've seen management time and time again operate such that they are not interested in the facts, logic, but rather in convincing, no, tricking others into accepting their conclusions - it seems the objective is to vale bald faced coercion. When US "leaders" talk of leading "by consensus, agreement", this is what they mean - kinder, gentler coercion. What's even more demoralizing, infuriating - a condition they delight in inflicting - is they themselves seem convinced of their own foolery. On this, just a bit more.

If you're interested in understanding just where you might fit into this, ask youself how much your day to day life involves honesty, integrity, forthrightness. These characteristics have become nothing more than an advertising slogan. Do you react to such with the same? Do you initiate such interaction yourself? Simple as it may sound, these characteristics are key to understanding the difference between a "rat", and a person of character, and in turn, the difference between a just society, and an unjust society. It's just that simple. Once, watching the Chris Matthews show on MSNBC, I watched Matthews badger a representative of a key US Muslim organization. And I noted her reaction. The emotion in her eyes opitimized hatred, and I understand why. It's interesting to note, the US, corporate America, the proverbial powers that be, treat the world like they treat their own citizens. For some reason, we seem to like it a lot more than the rest of the world does, in which case the US drops the pretense, and sends in the Marines. When the US escalates into a full fledged police state, the preceeding ought to give you some idea of how it got that way. This is not a joke. I don't make this stuff up. It's painfully obvious to me. If you feel perhaps, even in the slightest, you've grown indifferent to such, I urge you - GET OFF THE PROZAC, or whatever else you're on. Learn to cope without, and prepare to be a rightious person.

They also point out that outsourcing creates good jobs in poor countries, shrinking the huge gap between the world's rich and poor nations, and reduces inflation in the United States.

This is, as it were, the most phonie balona altruism I've ever heard. If corporate America, and our government were so altruistic, then they would not so ruthlessly denigrate the American worker. At any rate, engaging in altruism despite yourself, is foolish - Ayn Rand does speak to that issue, and she says just about the same thing.

Kleptocracy Sux - In an argument, bickering, so on, often it comes down to "us against them". What if the others you thought were a part of your "us", turn out to be "them", namely, the US government, and other powers that be, having convinced you they are working in your interest? Life is too short to be a kleptocrat. I'm sure this is one of Jesus' main themes :).

The above link describes kleptocracy in terms of major social institutions like the government, and the church - though I look at the church as sort of introductory spirituality. From there, one gets out of spirituality what one puts into it. For instance, if not for "the church", very few would know little, if anything, of Christianity.

But perhaps what's missing from the above linked article is a somewhat more abstract description of kleptocracy or kleptocratic behavior in action, so to speak, in society. The essence of such behavior is a, phony, pretentious air of authority, as it lacks a corresponding wisdom, knowledge, insight, and/or for that matter, ability - in short, lacking a correspondence with reality. The authority is bestowed, and maintained without any apparent requisite justification. There is something naturally corrupt about such, and those who are compelled to bend, or otherwise pretend, play along, and therefore uphold the illusion are themselves, thereby, in turn, corrupted. It is an ugly business for everyone involved. It is "naturally" repugnant. This same repugnant character can be sensed in such as affirmative action, reverse discrimination.

Perhaps the more important question begged here however, is why the need for authority at all? Isn't all authority in fact, kleptocratic? The authority figure is mostly a representative of the version of reality of the powers that be. For instance, there are many jobs in which there are supervisors, wherein there is no satisfactory answer to the question of what these supervisors actually do - no satisfactory answer other than that they act as representatives of a given standard of reality. I just find that really strange. And infinitely annoying. But nevertheless, it is a compellingly interesting subject to explore - just what are these "supervisors" up to? What is their role in society - obviously it's related to upholding kleptocratic reality, but what all does this consist of in more explicit terms?

One peculiar behavior seems to be the instillation of fear, and intimidation - as mentioned, very strange, and annoying, irritating. In this regard supervisors are, for want of a better expression, a sort of soft police force - an indeed peculiar workplace accessory. Not to mention, such is provocative. Is it any wonder, the occasional apparently unprovoked, or otherwise "out of the blue" office, or school shooting rampage - create an atomosphere of fear and intimidation, and get such in response. This is blantantly inept begging again the question: just what is it these supervisors do?

The perceptive supervised might note supervisors' veiled references to "breaking" their charges. This is not a new idea, and decades ago it was common place to hear the employed speak of their employer in terms of them, "either making or breaking," one. Such is nothing if not a form of psychological torture. But, an employer/employee relationship is a simple matter of an exchange of money for goods and/or services rendered. Just what has the employer/employee relationship to do with such as the employer "breaking" the employed? Yet, if one is paying attention, it becomes clear this is a part of an employer's behavioral repertoire, without regard for a given employee's performance - the motive appears clearly related to some Statist like conception of "compliance" for it's own sake, and nothing other than that - very strange indeed. If one's on the hunt for our nation's dictitorial, or fascist roots, one is hard pressed to find a better starting point. Such "training", in an environment as pervasive in the average person's life as their job, is not consistent with the ideals of a democracy, a "free country". It should be recognized that this is not a trivial, complaint - it cuts right to the heart of a problem that propogates, and self-reinforces in both directions between the highest political offices, and our work places and schools. While the workplace is not generally an appropriate context for intense philosphical, political debate, niether should it encourage mindless conformity, and other behaviors, attitudes that preclude the American democratic ideal. So called leadership that encourages, and/or demands following instructions, especially apparently illogical, confounded, or otherwise mindless instructions - a hallmark of "wizard behind the curtain", smoke and mirrors indoctrination - is not worthy of title, position, or respect in a democratic society - they are wittingly or not, traitors, pillars of fascism.

The linked article describes the main problem of kleptocracy. It is basically, authority, as in authoritarian as opposed to authoritative (which is itself surely, in most cases an illusion). Such precludes reality, and instead opts for what authority deems reality. Could there be any surer road to abnormality - socially, psychologically, even physically?

Kleptocracy is so easy to instill in folks because of our willingness to readily accept a version or depiction of reality as reality itself, as opposed to what it is - a representation of reality. As such, reality is not what it is, but rather reality becomes what one says it is. But even as we accept a static, inadequit, kleptocratic representation, version of reality, many (even most?) sense the incongruence, but rather than do anything about it - for instance make attempts to reconcile perceived incongruency - go on pretending, and are therefore suffering from a kind of psychosis. I wonder if those, assuming there exists such, who do not recognize any incongruence between the static reality representation, and reality, are also deemable as suffering from this same psychosis, or is recognition a neccessary requisite?

So kleptocracy is a version of reality. More simply put, it is a context, a set of assumptions on which our, generally speaking, mentations, actions are based. That is, kleptocracy is a type of context. What distinguishes kleptocracy from any, shall we say, other arbitrary reality version is that kleptocrarcy is enforced, or artificially imposed. And most importantly (and repugnantly), this is done to the benefit of those effecting the imposition.

Psy-Ops, Terror - A lot of the stuff in the article sounds a lot like the modern corporate workplace. What's yet to be done is a proper, thorough, explication, distillation of the techniques, and a means of documentation. 'Cause in a world of such ubiquitious littigators as that of the US, such a law suit cannot be far off. I submit that such, the problem, and the eminent consequences are just another of the many functions of the feminization of America - are you a "pussy whipped" girly-man? - most likely (are women, as they self-tout, "nurturing" or merely expert, in hand that rocks the cradle fashion, psychological terrorists, and increasingly State, legislativly supported "usefull idiots" (handy usefull idiots catalogue), with self-serving, vested interests?). This applies to corporate America - as its increasingly feminized, kinder, gentler, friendly enemy leadership, insidiously lulls, while the powers that be puppet masters remain unseen, iron fists in velvet gloves - and perhaps more importantly, to our public education system which confounds, and subjugates young minds rather than teaching them. Practically any person in a position of authority - law enforcement, management, supervision, education - has implicitly - at least ethically, philosophically, and if you watch, in practice - subscribed to a doctrine of containment, and control with regards to their fellow citizens, and are as such, instruments of betrayal in service to the powers that be. It's time to strike back. These are the targets. We must build the explicit evidence, and a coherent argument, and demand an end to a system that serves it's own ends rather than the people on whose behalf it supposedly exists.

The first step is knowledge. The authorities tell us "it's for your own good." The implication is they know better than anyone else what's good for us. But if, like a child asking, in seemingly infinitely regressing fashion, "Why?", you call these figures of authority on it, you'll find there is no good answer. Ultimately, when pressed, they exhibit contempt, threat displays, revealing the truth - the "why" is, 'Because we (authority) can, and will.' Once you understand this, you know what you are dealing with, even as the authority figures themselves often do not. The little known fact is, our "leaders" can't do anything, without followers.

Solitary Purdah - A related, interesting, short article.

Specific Workplace Psy-ops - Some insight into what your boss walks around thinking about all day.

Individual Power - Advice on better education.

Declaration Confusion - Thoughts on government.

"Obscure"

Dopamine Addiction - An Introduction - Do I have ADHD or are you so tranced up on dopamine, you need a magic spell to tie your shoes?

Dopamine is to chronic, what adrenaline is to acute. Both are neurochemical responses to fear. While adrenaline seems to more properly correspond to state of nature, fight or flight situations, dopamine stimulation lends itself to the under siege mentality of the average person in simulated state of nature, simulated survival of the fittest capitalist society. However, where adrenaline brings clarity, acute awareness, chronic dopamine stimulation brings an extended standby mode state of consciousness, with a false sense of well being, lethargy, and virtual inability to think. The state is in fact quite pleasurable. Is it any wonder people like being chronically frightened? What does this say about represive political regimes, dicatorial work environments, dumbed down schools, and the wide array of social situations that encourage conformitiy over thought? It says, people like these things, because they like the correponding dopamine stimulation.

More Political Essays

While the subject matter might suggest otherwise, my political, philosophical interests, opinions are much more broad.

As you make your way in this world you've inheritited, here's some advice - and these days, it's about the best you're ever gonna get:

Behavioral psychology describes behavior as a function of rewards and punishments. People want to be successfull, and feel good about themselves. Figure out early on whether you are going to judge your success or failure based on external rewards, punishments, or based on a coherent foundation of right and wrong, whether based in religion, ethics, or both. Otherwise, people can be made to feel good about themselves, successfull, for behavior of any sort, including murder, lying, stealing, etcetera. You name it, as long as there's an authority figure to say it's alright, good, or otherwise issue reward, without a neutral, impartial, consistent, coherent measuring stick, virtually any behavior can be made to seem justified. Decide early on, now, whether you are going to follow a fool - because today, virtually all leaders are fools - or you are going to think for yourself, and judge your success or failure, what is reward or punishment, in terms of more consistent, stable sources of reference.

Lesbians, Pedophiles, and Law & Order - Television is one dangerous appliance. Most of us realize, on some level, TV is just something we do - to pass time, be entertained, get informed. And we're all infused with the warnings that too much television is not good for us. Few of us realize exactly why, aside from the lack of exercise, or other constructive behavior. It's more than that though. TV is full of stories, and every story has a moral. The trouble with TV is too many of its stories' morals, are not moral. And we learn these immoral morals all the more thoroughly because they are subliminally transferred. We're taught without even knowing it, so we don't even know we've been programmed, or something's passed through our minds' filters, so we can't even edit it out, screen against it. Before we know it, we've got an entire set of values we really never chose, but nevertheless seem quite normal. You can imagine, this is especially true, if you watch a lot of TV - just sitting there, like a zombie, being programmed by the box. Pretty soon, you even start looking to the TV to tell you what to think.

Lately, a Law & Order SVU actress - the one that stars as the female detective (May West's daughter) - has been appearing in those little, "The more you know.." PSAs telling us that, if you're watching TV that makes you blush, your kids probably shouldn't be watching. I don't buy this "blame the victim" approach to television programming. If it's on TV, people are going to watch it, and be affected by it whether they like it, or for that matter, even know it or not. Most people watch TV to be entertained, not as critical psychoanylists. That's the whole point I've posted this material. People keep complaining about television content, and they keep answering with, 'If you don't like it, don't watch it.' In other words, it's your fault they are brainwashing you.

Michael Moore's Gun Control - This guy's pretty cool. But his gun control politics are equivocating, and misguided.

Police State Prelude - The media and the police are making it increasingly difficult to avoid their brainwashing.

Sniper Mania - Number One With A Bullet - My Richmond home boy's perspective on the media, as the sniper circus comes to town.

"History Repeats Itself" - What the hell is that supposed to mean :)?

From Barter To Bankruptcy - Understanding Money - A commoner's guide to understanding money - no really, read this short article, and understand how our money system works! It's very important, especially in present times, that you do.

Def Con God

Why Johnny Wants War - Because Johnny is greedy, maladaptive, impatient, and unimaginative. Deal with it :).

9/11 Thoughts

Tech

Microsoft Hatred Statement - Every tech person needs one.

Douglas Adams (Towel Day!) - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, the Durk Gently character; Celebrate author Douglas Adams on Towel Day.

Artificial Intellegence/ALife - There've been some developments in the field.  Also in the field of biology.  I took off on a little adventure - though a bit brief - and learned the latest trends, and you can see how the two fields are related.

Die Spam!  Die! - Adventures in getting spam-free (as opposed to getting free spam).

The Dreaded Reply-To Munger - Don't let some pesky sys-admin (personally I think all system administrators secretly worship Hitler - I think all that control just goes to their head (well, true for some of them). I should write an article about this). tell you that you can't mung your Reply-To email header.  If for no other reason, do it for spite. Just kidding - don't piss off your sys-admin. But, for personal mail, I say, mung away.

Be Your Own ISP - About personal web servers, and how to set one up.  Very easy to understand.  Anyone can do it.  It's really neato man.

Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Bryan Hoover, Warren Excellence Computing Systems