Dear Senator McCain,

This is too amazing to be true, but it is: Palestine-born US Citizen, and Intel employee Mike Hawash was arrested as a material witness by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force and is being held without access to a lawyer, without being chanrged, in solitary confinement.

Scoble's got a series of posts and replies relating to a bill in Oregon that would make it law that state agencies would have to consider using open-source software. The first post is this one.

Jason Kottke compares the unix philosophy and the Microsoft one:> If Unix development philosophy is small pieces loosely joined, Microsoft's philosophy is big chunks tightly coupled. Jason uses three words to describe how Microsoft keeps its developers: Friction, Inertia, and Marketing. FIM. I'm not saying that Microsft does not make some amazing products (not including Windows, at least to-date) but that (and this is from experience) it's an uphill battle to mix unix- and Windows-based applications in an environment, because the design philosophies are so different.

Another Apple rumor site.

Ok, I've kept quiet about this so far, becuase it's been blogged to death elsewhere. But I'm having fun playing with my $500 fantasy dollars and 1000 shares of monkinetic stock over at BlogShares.com.

Excellent. Missed lunch with fellow Pheonix blogger Bill Brown yesterday for lack of a map... made it today to the original Oregano's in Scottsdale. Good pizza!!

This guy spells out how to enable Rendezvous support for unix services, webservers, etc. Niiice.

Bill sent me a link to Command-Post.org, where they're aggregating blog posts on the war in Iraq. Lots of information there.

Ha! Today's PVP comic strip about killed me!

Dave invents the whitelist.

I'm having lunch to day with a fellow Phoenix blogger, Bill Brown. Coooool.

Another monk-ified blog: Monkuniverse.

Dave is doing a keynote at the Open Source Content Management conference (OSCOM) in Cambridge.

I recently gave a friend a resume to pass along for a linux sys admin position. It was a strange experience, thinking of myself as a systems administrator. But as I went through to tweak my resumee for the position, I realized that I've done quite a bit of it over the years (as any web developer must).

I've added a list of essays I've written on this site on thee right-hand side below the channel list, under "My Writings". Maybe someone will find it interesting.

I think someone was in way too much of a rush to get this story online. The entire text of the story (it's not long) is included twice!

I love looking at this blog, written in right-to-left persian script. I love that OS X renders it perfectly.

If you're an OS X developer, go get Hydra NOW.

Big surprise, I hacked on mygannt.py some more this weekend, and it's now called sgannt.py. Ostensibly for Simple Gannt (though it's not so simple anymore) but more because it sounds cool to pronounce it "scant". -)