Reactuate

I was reading Mrs. du Toit’s post on why she took her kids out of public school and what the problems are. I posted a comment, but here is a recap.

Lot’s of good stuff. I totally agree. We never put our kids in the public school system and only put the eldest in a private [...]

It’s the current controversy on the blogosphere. Kim Du Toit’s rant on The Pussification Of The Western Male. After reading a couple of related responses including the one from Kim’s wife and Spoon’s I thought I’d add my two cents. In the interest of being erudite.

His tone is a rant and he uses semantically loaded [...]

I just spent 30 minutes fulfilling a request of my sons to do something should have taken about 2 minutes. He wanted to transfer files from our Windows ME machine to one of our Macs. If they had both been Macs it would have taken a couple of seconds to do the connection. Mac OS [...]

Being a fan, I’m amazed about Nicole Kidman’s new love. You know Lenny Kravitz is one of those guys who guys just don’t understand. Women seem to think he’s hot, but I think the guy is just bone ugly. Now he bags one of my most beautiful women.

I just don’t get it. Guess he must [...]

Got my PowerBook back, but I missed most of a day at work. It was shipped Airborne Express with there Express shipping, which they guarantee will be there before Noon. It arrived at around 3. After I called and asked where it was. They said there was a delay this morning and they were running [...]

Couple of weeks back I was looking at lowering expenses and one of the things I looked at was getting rid of our landline. Both my wife and I have cell phones and it seemed a little ridiculous to pay $50 a month for a land line. Well, we ultimately decided against getting rid of [...]

I dropped two blogs from my NetNewsWire subscription list since election day. Scripting News and Daring fireball. I also almost dropped another because of their stupid left wing politics.

I kind of need to suck up to Dave Winer, because I want him to change a spec he controls. But after his thrid stupid comment about [...]