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Businessweek’s article might not be front page stuff, but it is cool when my dad and mom hear about Open Source. That only happens when biz week writes about it. It’s not like they read slashdot.

Now, how do I get some of that money?

This story has me outraged! I can’t believe that a web site would put a “cookie” on my computer!

The National Security Agency’s Internet site has been placing files on visitors’ computers that can track their Web surfing activity despite strict federal rules banning most of them. These files, known as “cookies,” disappeared after a privacy activist complained and The Associated Press made inquiries this week, and agency officials acknowledged Wednesday they had made a mistake. Nonetheless, the issue raises questions about privacy at a spy agency already on the defensive amid reports of a secretive eavesdropping program in the United States.

This is so stupid I don’t even know where to begin. It’s your computer. If you don’t want “cookies” from “big brother” or anyone else, don’t allow them! You control your computer not the NSA.

I hope they don’t log what IP address I’m coming from! What’s next, knowing what pages I visited on their server? This could be bad!

This is an attempt to make a mountain out of a molehill and would not be “news” at all if the media wasn’t trying to pile on the Bush administration.

Oh lazy web, help if you can! I posted a squid problem to the squid users list for help with a proxy issue. You can find it here.

That’s how you know things are bad, I would rather stay up till 3:00 a.m. trying to figure out the problem then admit that I’m stumped. Well, after 3 nights of that, you see where I’ve gotten ;)

The Open Source Motor Control (OSMC) project seems like just the fit for me. Cheap, Open hardware for hacking together a X,Y table and doing a little laser cutting :)

What’s wrong with being a “me too”?

Blogs have peaked in “coolness” but they still do all of the things the made them sweet in the first place. You know, sometimes it’s just to hard to get around to doing stuff. I was writing my own blog from scratch back in the day. More important things came up and the blog was dropped (I still have the schema for a killer PostgreSQL back end). This was before things like WordPress were around and setting up a fully functioning blog only took 20 minutes :) My blog would have never been as sweet as what the WP team has come up with. Many thanks to them and many blogs to come!