Larry’s Log

Well, the state legislature did it last night:
Democrats and Republicans united Friday to strip away the Confederate battle emblem from Gov. Sonny Perdue’s flag referendum.
State lawmakers instead created a single, two-flag contest next March in which voters could indicate their preference between the current state flag raised by then-Gov. Roy Barnes two years ago and [...]

Stupidity and incompetence does much more to damage the United State’s reputation abroad than any secret imperialistic designs. For Pete’s sake, haul the stuff off into the desert to get rid of it. Keeping this stuff around the civilian population can only lead to opportunities for mischief.

An awesome thunderstorm just raced through Fulton and DeKalb counties here in Georgia dumping a huge amount of hail across the area. Hail is piled up about two feet deep on I75 at West Paces Ferry Road in the southbound lane and completely blocking traffic. It looks like the hail stopped up a drain and [...]

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It looks like it might boil down to a single referendum and the choice of the old "state’s rights" flag won’t be among the choices. The flag to the left is most likely going to be voted on, up or down. If the new flag is approved by the legislature it will be raised immediately [...]

I couldn’t help it. It was the first heading I thought of when I read Steve Ballmer’s remarks on the release of Windows Server 2003.
Ballmer joked about the ribbing Microsoft had taken in the past about Windows Server’s capabilities compared to those of Unix systems and mainframes. Referring to previous efforts at server operating systems, [...]

It looks like Mark is trying to start a panic. I don’t think I’m going to let it get to me. If I try to dump everything that I have left at once I’m going to hurt the stock price for those who still have a position in those stocks. I don’t want to do [...]

It seems that not only does your use of illicit drugs support terrorism but also your contributions to open source software enables terrorist states. This is about to become as cliché as “for the children.”
Oops: It appears that I have spoke too soon. Evidently someone on the POSSE project was enough of an anti-war activist [...]

In the next to the last day in the Georgia state legislature the Georgia Senate voted to approve a new, temporary state flag and set things up for Georgians to vote to possibly return to the post-1956 state flag that included the Confederate Battle flag in the design. However, due to a typo in the [...]

When my oldest son started driving I bought him a cell phone. “What”, you ask, “How can you afford to give a cell phone to a teenager?” It was a Cricket phone. This service offered only local calling with no roaming and unlimited air time. It is the perfect service for a suddenly mobile teenager. [...]

It’s out of my reach for now but I think I found the car I would trade my truck in on.

I’m still playing around with Blogshares and while looking for some decent buys I came across Steve Sabo’s No Matter What You Heard. This is a ‘blog about the independent music scene and it’s a very interesting read.
Steve combines music reviews with commentary on the industry and he appears to me to know this topic [...]

Thank you, Chris, for pointing out the possible answer to all the world’s problems.

It’s been a beautiful week here in Lawrenceville. The sky has been clear and the temperature range has been from the mid-60s in the morning to just touching the 80s in the afternoon. Working from home has been less than productive so far this week but, oh, so enjoyable. My wireless network has at least [...]

I think I’m hooked on Blogshares. I bought 1,000 shares of Zsa Summons You at 1¢ per share and I’m just wondering if linking to her site will increase it’s value. It will probably take someone other than me linking to it for it to happen but how often does one have the opportunity to [...]