Month: March 2006

  • Illinois’ 1st Congressional District Race

    I got tired of seeing Phillip Jackson ads (and having his fliers stuck under my windshield wipers), so I decided to figure out just who is running for the House of Representatives in this district. I’m still registered to vote in North Carolina, so one could say I have no horse in this race, except…

  • Civ IV – Problems and Play

    Well, I got Civilization IV running on my system, so I have wasted a lot of time, this weekend. Getting it to run was insane, however. For reference, I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 with the ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 (32MB) graphics card and a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. These are the steps I had to take…

  • There Goes My Life

    I posted a few days ago that I didn’t think Civilization IV would run on my system without a costly video card upgrade. Well, fortunately or unfortunately, thanks to the good folks at the Civilization Fanatics’ Forums, I found a driver for my current video card that fixed my problems and means I will probably…

  • Further Proof…

    … that about half the population will vote for about anything: the Miami-Dade County School Board voted 5-4 to fire six teachers and accept the resignations of 26 others. The teachers in question had all paid to obtain continuing education credits, rather than taking actual courses, and then lied about the credits by representing them…

  • Strange Dreams

    I had two very strange dreams, last night. In the first, I was trying to leave work at a nuclear plant (I watched a bit of the Simpsons right before bed) and couldn’t leave, because my license plate was no longer on file at the gate. Later, I couldn’t place a report when I called…