Archive for April, 2007

I watched the first round of the 2007 NFL draft live last night. The Raiders were the worst team in the league last year, and they took quarterback JaMarcus Russel from LSU. Before the draft started I didn’t know much about this year’s class. Let me tell you: I think that Russel dude is one [...]

You’ve probably noticed the new advertisement at the top of my sidebar. I also think it’s kind of annoying, but don’t worry, it’ll come down after May 6. For that is the day that the final voting will take place in the 2007 French presidential campaign. Root for Nicolas Sarkozy, the conservative candidate in the [...]

WordPress just went over 900,000 members. I was surprised at how long it took to get here from 800,000. March-April was slow. When will it reach seven digits? May? June?

I recently read George Orwell’s book Animal Farm, a satire on communism. A bunch of farm animals decide they don’t like life under the leadership of farmer Jones (who is compared to the old Russian Czar). The animals take over and leadership is taken by the pigs, who are very clever but don’t have the [...]

Web browsers

The other day I was deleting some programs from my computer and I accidentally deleted Firefox, my web browser. So I had to download a new one. I really like Firefox, but instead of going straight for it, I did some research and shopping around and narrowed it down to the “big 3″: Firefox, Internet [...]