I recently installed McAfee VirusScan 2006 and Personal Firewall Plus 2006. Around this time, I discovered that my ATI video card’s control panel, Catalyst Control Center, stopped functioning: it wouldn’t even open.
It turns out that Catalyst Control Center needs access to the Internet, and Personal Firewall Plus 2006 was blocking it, apparently by default. Click [...]
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” — Thomas Paine
“God is everything science has yet to explain.” —unknown
Sometimes CNN really outdoes themselves with their online polls (click for full-size):
Umm… WTF is that?
Mark Steyn has published a well-argued editorial piece on the failures of the United Nations:
Can the U.S. force the UN to reform itself? Look at it this way: With hindsight, the UN was most effective when it was least effective—that’s to say, the four decades between Korea and the Gulf War, when the Cold War’s [...]