Religious Nuts and Star Trek

On numerous occasions, I have run into religious nuts. People who seem to quote passages from religious texts as if its fact. I suppose this is true for just about everywhere there are a certain group of people who run their daily business based on the prevalent religious text in that area. Now there is nothing wrong is basing your life on a book or whatever else you believe in. But to subject other people to your religious beliefs is not nice or...

2011 US Economy: “Economic Re-Arrangement” may be more accurate a description of the state of the U.S. Economy than “Recession”

For the last 3 years, there has been a regular barrage of news on the recession, news of jobs improvements, news of non-farm payrolls rising and falling and generally a whole lot of people and politicians on TV saying a whole lot about the state of the economy. One term almost everyone seems to agree upon is that the U.S. is in a Recession. I somewhat disagree. While recession may be an accurate economic classification, perhaps what the U.S. economy...

Attacking Libya: An Unsound Decision

The U.S. is once again participating in an armed conflict with a country we really should not be interested in interfering with. The problem with meddling in other nation’s affairs is that you never know what the outcome of doing so will be. For example while Saddam was by no means a nice guy, under his rule there were no terrorists and other weirdos. The majority of people in Iraq were safer and happier from what I gather from various blogs...

namebench: A free and easy way to speed up your internet browsing experience

Its not everyday that you find a software that makes your life better. This was exactly the case when I tried namebench. Its a free software that began as a 20% project at Google. It hunts down the best DNS server for your computer at the precise location where you run the software. DNS servers supply information to your computer about the locations of websites and how to go get to it. In general, the faster the response from a DNS server, the faster...