MarkTaff.com

1. Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man... take my pound of flesh and sleep well.
(News/Liberty)

... haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests ...

2. Joomla! Creative Commons Tagging Plugin
(Software/Joomla!)

I've decided to finally publish the plugin I wrote that tags my articles with a Creative Commons license. Simply add a tag like to an article to tag it as GNU GPL version 3. Available tags are: cc-by ...

3. The Price of Liberty is...Hot Dog Gruel?
(News/Liberty)

... likely to be a rough day. Before I continue, I should digress for a moment and talk about my experience with the courthouse security folks with regards to my concealed pistol. I found some instructions ...

4. Spring Quarter 2009
(News/College)

Well, spring quarter started on the first, and it was actually trying to snow on the way to campus (really, no April Fool's)!  This March went in and out like a lion.  I hope that "spring" begins to behave ...

5. Will The DC City Council Ever Learn Their Lesson?
(News/Gun Rights)

... cannot be banned, whether the city likes it or not. The city needs to accept the Second Amendment reality and stop this nonsense.” Since DC is using California's gun list (which has already been ruled ...

6. Go Johannes, go, go!
(News/Aerospace Engineering)

... the list, perhaps a couple of thousand more with some good luck and an extended mission. Not only will Kepler find many planets, I expect it to find many Earth-like planets (small rocky planets approximately ...

7. Jury Duty
(News/Liberty)

I have been summoned for jury duty in King County Superior Court.  Initially, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to do my duty.  Moments later it occurred to me that the court would most likely want ...

8. 404 File Not Found
(News/Meta/Joomla!)

... then customizing a search link to return matching articles.  I remove certain tokens that are of little value in a search, like articles, prepositions, etc.  Clicking on the "I Feel Lucky" link executes ...

9. Pacifica First Impressions
(News/Computers)

Pacfica finally arrived from FedEx Monday afternoon.  Of course, like a kid in a candy store, I had to start playing with it right away. openSUSE 11.1 was recently released, so I set about preparing to ...

10. Blessings of Freedom
(Meta/Quotes, Aphorisms & Epigrams)

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. Thomas Paine ...

11. Old Testament God
(Meta/Quotes, Aphorisms & Epigrams)

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell  ...

12. No Nads Nickels a No-show
(News/Gun Rights)

... This lady is too scared to be in a park where most likely less that 5% of the people might have a legally concealed pistol, yet she seemed just peachy testifying in a room where quite possibly 80% of the ...

13. Don't Ban Guns, Ban Nickels
(News/Gun Rights)

... will exempt Seattle from having to comply with Washington’s model preemption act, so that Nickels can run Seattle like Richard Daley runs Chicago, which is the mayor’s home town. On Monday, December 15, ...

14. Credits & Licenses
(Meta/Meta)

... GPL or Creative Commons license.  Any photograph lacking such copyright or license is hereby licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License, unless accompanied by ...

15. Back to School
(News/College)

... was doing quite well in Calculus and Chemistry, and reasonably well in German, I decided to drop all of my classes.  I didn't even want to get out of bed in the morning; school seemed like a prison sentence. ...

16. Gun Control Lobby Now Attacking Vets
(News/Gun Rights)

... ticking time bombs. Millions of American men and women have served courageously under fire only to come home and find hysterics like Sugarmann ready to strip them of rights. Sugarmann, in a remarkable ...

17. Morris Embarrasses U.S.
(News/Gun Rights)

... People like Morris, who support those laws, must take their share of the responsibility for the violence visited upon her son.  I can only imagine her grief if the thugs had killed him, knowing that ...

18. Current Users
(Category)

Questions that users migrating to Joomla! 1.5 are likely to raise  ...