My RSS reader contained a [del.icio.us][1] bookmark to an eBook download of _[Agile Web Development with Rails][2]_ this morning. I’m sure quite a few other people noticed it as well, before the download got pulled offline.
Not to worry; I’m __definitely__ planning to buy the hardcopy book when it comes out - PDFs are nice, but […]
My last [two][1] [posts][2] dredged up concerns over self-censorship, especially when I talked about imagining myself in the shoes of a suicide bomber. I hope I made it clear that the exercise was entirely theoretical, for the purpose of making some sense out of such senselessness. But that’s not what I want to talk about […]
Now that I’ve posted [such a serious entry][1], I felt that I should explain why I believe that
>The most terrible thing in this world is the force that drives people to do evil things in the name of good.
My premise is extremely simple. I believe people only act when they feel justified in their actions.
_Justification_, […]
Today seems appropriate to discuss fear.
The term gets bandied about by politicians and warmongers quite a bit lately, but I believe these men and women are among those who need not fear. Certainly not as much as ordinary citizens, who reap no benefits of ‘advance knowledge’, Secret Service protection, or highly-fortified enclaves in which to […]
[Excellent, if not sobering, essay][1] about the current path of the United States. I hate to make light of the situation by comparing this plight to _Star Wars_, but I fear that somehow the machinations of power brokers have led us to this point in history, that the endless war of terror that appears to […]