First of all, happy new year. Not sure what 2008 will bring but if nothing else it will bring a lot of political commercials. Oh, wait… That’s not a good thing. Oh well. Anyway, I’ve been going round-and-round with a technology advisor’s group I belong to. This group is stocked with well-off, staunch conservatives who […]

The RIAA, in its infinite wisdom, has now decided to go after one Jeffrey Howell arguing that ripping songs from a legally purchased CD is illegal. My first question is how the hell did Mr. Howell get “caught”? Anyway, this entire issue is a subterfuge to the main point that most consumers have no awareness […]

The Mitchell Report is out and it set the sporting world on fire. It unmasked a number of players as having taken part in steroid abuse but, then again, not nearly as many as was rumored to be included. I wanted to be interested in this story but I just couldn’t get myself to care. […]

Now that I’m getting older I find that I have these flashes of long-past memories that remind me of events and experiences now nearly forgotten. Just in case the ever-shrinking world happens to reach this person, I wanted to let an old Army roommate know about what happened after we parted ways. Among others assigned […]

My background is in game development having owned the first (and largest at the time) game testing company for 13 years. On the personal side I’ve been a gamer in squads and clans going back to their birth. On the audio side I’ve been involved from the very first days of PC audio. I currently […]

Well, I’ve finally done it. After years of resisting it, I just got my own hosted website. I’m still not sure what I’ll do with it but for now it’ll just be a launching pad for this blog (which you can get directly at https://slashcomment.com) and maybe my family tree. I wouldn’t have bothered if […]

Former chief liar or White House press secretary Scott McClellan is finally writing a book and in it he specifically points to George Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Andrew Card as all having full knowledge that they were sending McClellan out to, as he states it, unknowingly lie about the involvement of Rove and […]

I’ve decided Congress should go ahead and declare war. They should declare it because this enemy strikes fear into the hearts of every American. It’s an insidious enemy that strikes without warning, without fear, without any heart or morality. It doesn’t strike with the backing of a government. It destroys families and bankrupts many it […]

Digital media is supposed to be better is it not? One of my biggest gripes about it is that the industry, across the board, refuses to acknowledge this fact and keeps trying to apply old methods to the new media. What I mean by this is that I’m tired of being told that songs, books, […]

The new PC version of Call of Duty 4 arrived today. The single player version of these games has always been exceptional while I have never liked the multiplayer version. The current game is no exception. It’s complete chaos. From the moment you land in a server it’s a mess. You take 5 steps and […]

Two weeks ago I noticed that the graphic I have on this blog wasn’t loading. It’s stored on my personal web space with Comcast while the blog is hosted fully on Blogger.com. I had just gotten a note that Comcast had upgraded their personal web service from 25 MB to something like 2 GB so […]

I don’t quite recall where I first saw this discussed but it resonated with me pretty heavily. The President of the United States takes the following oath of office: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my […]