At a time like this when so many people are fighting over the meaning of California voter’s passage of Proposition 8 that took away the rights of gay and lesbian people to marry, it is important to look athow far we have come in the last twenty years. When I was a teenager in the 1980′s I could not have imagined this happening. I was a huge fan of Keith Haring and stood in line with friends to get his famous Swatch. I also attended an AIDS fund raiser in his honor at the Palladium in NYC shortly after his death. Seeing him honored in this way feels great.

In today’s Washington Post (page A19) Christine Todd Whitman, former Republican Governor of New Jersey and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, reprises the central thesis of her book, “It’s My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America“. In her book, she warns the Republican party that  Read more »

Now that cooler weather is upon us the computer room door is open and all three of the critters have taken up residence on the loveseat.

I am not religious myself, but I know the comfort and solid foundation that faith can bring to some people and seeing someone discard that foundation does not bring me joy. On a more selfish note, every person leaving the LDS church over this issue is one less voice inside the LDS church who can petition for change from the inside.

ARM and Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu®, today announced that it will bring the full Ubuntu Desktop operating system to the ARMv7 processor architecture to address demand from device manufacturers. The addition of the new operating system will enable new netbooks and hybrid computers, targeting energy-efficient ARM® technology-based SoCs, to deliver a rich, always-connected, mobile computing experience, without compromising battery life.