According to my referrer logs, a lot of people (at least once a day, usually twice or more) land on this site looking for information on Andrew Bird, more especially lyrics. I am planning on including a separate set of pages dedicated to Bird's music and lyrics, since he is one of my favorite artists and I think his music kicks you-know-what. So if you are looking for lyrics, you will (hopefully soon) have come to the right place.

[UPDATE: New section for Andrew Bird lyrics, the link will remain posted in the navigation section on the right side.]

A few months back I purchased a license to Paul Wilson's O/R mapper (aka WORM). The documentation leaves a bit to be desired, but Paul is a busy man, and for the price you simply can't beat it; he does have a forum on his site dedicated to this particular tool, containing a year's worth of his answering questions about WORM's capabilities and the means for utilizing such, and while his website is searchable (he uses Google to do the work), I wanted to have offline access to the entire forum. I could have written him and asked if he would be kind enough to provide access to all of the data, but I know that he is usually so busy and might not have time for something like that. So, I wrote a screen scraper to get all of the content, and then I spat it out into a single web page, then printed it to PDF. This PDF contains, I believe, all of the posts starting in January of 2004 up to and including any from yesterday (January 15th), listed in chronological order of the original post.

I will update this file as time goes on, especially if I know other people find it useful - so do let me know.

When I read the results of a recent poll by Cornell University, I could not believe what I was reading. Yes, 44% of those polled felt that there should be a limit on the "civil liberties of Muslim Americans." WHAT?! I'm sorry, but this is a sad commentary on the state of the people of this nation, if this poll is relatively indicative of the feelings of all Americans. Even worse, the fact that it was "found that Republicans and people who described themselves as highly religious were more apt to support curtailing Muslims’ civil liberties than Democrats or people who are less religious." I would describe myself as "highly religious" and do lean towards Republican values more so than Democratic ones on numerous issues, but I do NOT want to be categorized with people that wish to discriminate in such a way.

Discriminating against someone based on the fact that they share race, creed, color, etc. with a group of people who are committing terrorist acts does not really address the root problem. This all begs the question, why are we not doing more to combat the reason the terrorists are trying to kill us in the first place? I mean, don't get me wrong - I don't believe the so-called 'terrorists' are justified in their activities. However, I do see that it may be easy for those people to find fault with our foreign policies and arrogance as a country - I sometimes wonder if we could be a bit more diplomatic in the way we handle things.

Well, I don't even know what to say other than this is unbelievable. So much for equality.

This guy makes me ill. Take responsibility for your actions and the associated punishments. Ditto for Mark Hacking. How in the world do these people think they can weasel out of the consequences for the actions they took by exercising their will? Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.