Experiences with Airport Express

So last weekend I got an Airport Express, solely to stream music to a stereo.

My iMac doesn't have a wireless card, but I do have a DSL modem with wireless capabilitity.

The setup assistant is really dumb. It does absolutely nothing if you don't have a wireless card. Plus, when I installed it, it deleted my copy of iTunes!

I finally realized that to connect the two I couldn't connect the computer through the router to my modem, I had to connect it directly to the modem. I can't make them peers on the router because then nothing works. It's like the modem refuses to do DNS on more than one computer. Anyway, I'm probably going to end up hardwiring it.

This post probably didn't make much sense. Oh well.

Rebuttal: Lifting the Censor's Veil on the Shame of Iraq by Bob Herbert

Um, Bob, your point is . . .

This column focuses on an individual, Aidan Delgado, who was in Iraq and experienced many "dehumanizing" events. The main thing is that he has pictures. He has pictures of bad things that American soldiers were pretending to do do dead Iraqis. Okay, so what? What does this have to do with censorship? In fact, he uses the word "censor" only 3 times in the course of his column. One of these uses was in the title.

He claims that the war we see on the media is "censored and sanitized." Yeah. "3 American soldiers killed in Iraq!" "More American Casualties in Iraq!" etc . . . That's sure censored and sanitized, focusing on the death of Americans in Iraq every day.

The "agonizing bloodshed and other horrors that continue unabated in Iraq," as he calls them, are mostly performed by the Iraqis. The American soldiers wouldn't be getting killed or killing Iraqis weren't attacking.

He says that if the"censor's veil" was lifted, "support for any war that wasn't an absolute necessity would plummet." Yeah. That's exactly what happened in World War I, huh. Hundreds of thousands (not hundreds) of American soldiers died. That war wasn't an absolute necessity. Public support for that war was rather high, in fact.

So at the end, his point has changed from so-called "censorship" to an investigation of the war. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you supposed to stay on the same topic throughout a piece of writing?

This guy also works for the New York Times. I'm scared that I ever even considered wanting to get that paper. Editorial excellence. Hah!

Bragging

I - I can't help it anymore. I've been holding out, but I can't resist. I have to brag about this: SAFARI WAS FIRST TO PASS THE ACID2 TEST! HAH!

The Future of the Internet

Soon, a bunch of horribly designed, ugly websites will be popping up all over. This is because of the many people taking a so-called "Web Design" class who will soon finish. Now, I'm sure there are web design classes that don't teach old, archaic techniques, but still . . .

In Mesa Public Schools students of the web design class are taught to:

• design their web pages for one browser (guess which)
• use markup that represents style, not structure
• use tables for layout
• not use PNG graphics because "they aren't supported"
• make their sites generally ugly
• kill innocent civilians

Okay, maybe not that last one, but the others are true.

The thing is, these kids think they know how to design webpages now. So, of course, they'll find a way to put them online. And get pirated copies of Dreamweaver.