Christopher Charles

Bruce Sterling on the future . Why isn’t it grand? Why isn’t it as fantastically grand as the spectrum of all possibility? Well, why isn’t t...

Shoal Creek Crossing It finally rained after almost a month, so I took a walk in the early evening. I walked down to Shoal Creek Boulevard a...

Rediscovering George Harrison I heard "Give Me Love" on KGSR a few days ago and haven't been able to get it out of my head sin...

Lucera, and trying to change my life I started a new blog (http://lucera-soft.blogspot.com/) for an open-source product I'm trying to cr...

I'm reading This New Ocean by William E. Burrows, the story of the space race between the US and the Soviet Union and came across this ...

The difference between Neo-Cons and the Kremlin The former are stupid and dangerous, the latter are clever and dangerous... I'm commenti...

He came to us on a beautiful day in fall and left us on a beautiful day in spring, and every day in between was a gift. I only wish ther...

Molly Ivins Calls Progressives To Arms I don’t know about you, but I have had it with the D.C. Democrats, had it with the DLC Democrats, had...

Three Years Gone, and Almost Three More Years To Go Monday is the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, as you probably know. The war ...

The Triumph of Conservative Economic Policy Max Sawicky (via Brad DeLong): The upshot is that the triumph of Republican-conservatarian econ...

Learning "The best thing for being sad," said Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only th...

In Memoriam Mr. Cracker April 1993 - June 25, 2005 He was beautiful. He had a gentle grace and dignity that made everyone love and admire h...

Only in Santa Cruz News from the land that time and neo-conservatism forgot: Headline in today's Santa Cruz Sentinel: Drug Suspects Roll...

More Old-School Thinking The very first step towards the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by ger...

The Future of Software Development - Open Source I think I've flogged Agile/XP enough , so let's move on to Open Source Software (...