Justin's Journal

Americans Enslaved in Japan During WWII are now seeking compensation through the civil courts, however, it seems that our own country is blocking their efforts.

He says he was told the peace treaty to be signed with Japan would spell out how he could proceed in a lawsuit against the Japanese companies. But in what the veterans see as a double cross, the final treaty specifically prohibited any such lawsuits against private industry, apparently out of concern that they would hurt Japan's efforts to rebuild after the war.

If I may be very blunt, then we were sold down the river, says Tenney.

I know what is done is done, but I would think that every legal avenue available to these men should be researched by our current government officials to attempt to find a way to satisfy these gentlemen's claims.

Posted by Justin Thyme 08:12:08 PM | Permalink for Entry 3809509.

Prior to forwarding that e-mail warning about the latest virus or sick and dangerous joke that make up today's urban legends, you may want to consider the fate of Rose Lambert.

Posted by Justin Thyme 02:35:20 PM | Permalink for Entry 3764872.

Some criminals really get what they deserve. I just can't figure out why they tried to sew them back on.
<ed. note:I had to change the pointer of the story from the Netscape server to the Excite.com server due to the URL of the article on Netscape breaking the HTML validation of this page.>

Posted by Justin Thyme 10:38:47 AM | Permalink for Entry 3745554.

And speaking of Microsoft and licensing, What's with Microsoft's upgrade ultimatum? It seems that Microsoft wants to make sure that its large customers keep current with their software upgrades and in turn guarantee a revenue stream in perpetuity. Nice, if they can pull it off but a lot of companies are going to experience a huge hit on their IT budgets due to not only the licensing cost but also the expense of upgrading all their computers and keeping their users training current.

Posted by Justin Thyme 06:00:18 AM | Permalink for Entry 3686986.

Microsoft's Craig Mundie is not just sitting around after his May 3rd speech at the New York University Stern School of Business. In a ZDNet commentary, News: Mundie: Why open source is still questionable, he congratulates himself on his own speech and then reiterates it for the rest of us.

When comparing the commercial software model to the open-source software model, look carefully at the business plans and licensing structures that form their foundations. This comparison leads to the conclusion that the commercial software model alone has the capacity for sustaining real economic growth. Intellectual capital has always been, and will remain, the core asset of the software industry, and of almost every other industry. Preserving that capital--and investing in its constant renewal--benefits everyone.

I guess this isn't as bad as the "Open source is un-American" attack once coming out of Microsoft.

Posted by Justin Thyme 05:52:30 AM | Permalink for Entry 3686933.

Due to the fact that I've a friend that goes by the name of Da Worm, this headline caught my eye.

Worm tries to attract intelligence agencies' attention U.K.-BASED SECURITY SOFTWARE vendor Sophos has warned of a new variant on the Love Bug worm which, as well as infecting users' machines, seems designed to attract the attention of the Echelon surveillance system. Sophos added that it has found just one example of the worm in the wild.

One of these days maybe people will learn how dangerous some email attachments can be.

Posted by Justin Thyme 11:17:19 AM | Permalink for Entry 3674255.

I've been discussing Geocaching with some friends of mine. It seems not everyone is all keen on the idea of a staged treasure hunt with a handheld GPS. Some folks feel that the caches these folks are planting to be found are no more than litter. After talking to a number of land managers and park superintendents of land that published caches are located on I think I've got to agree. Not one of the persons I talked to that was charged with overseeing the land had been asked permission for the cache to be located on their property. Folks, that's the definition of litter.

I still think that Geocaching is a neat sport and a way to get people out into nature that might otherwise sit at home on the couch. I think it's a wonderful activity for a family to participate in that would allow parents a chance to teach their children something about respect for nature. Just get permission if you decide you want to plant your own cache.

These folks in charge of the lands are very approachable and can help you plant the cache in a location and in a way that will be least intrusive on the environment. There are a lot of endangered plants that can be damaged by people trying to locate a cache if the location of the cache isn't thought out ahead of time. A park ranger knows where these plants are growing and where the dangerous terrain is. Ask them for help.

Posted by Justin Thyme 09:06:22 PM | Permalink for Entry 3585636.

Hmm, I just got most of my pages to validate and had my CSS validated a few days ago but it doesn't now. Anyone have any idea why that would happen?

Posted by Justin Thyme 05:59:14 AM | Permalink for Entry 3576977.

Ohhh! CNN.com - Shooting of actor Blake's wife treated as homicide - May 6, 2001 It sounds like Baretta may have pulled an OJ. I hope he doesn't own a white Bronco.

Posted by Justin Thyme 08:22:05 PM | Permalink for Entry 3525098.

From the Miami Herald: Elections overhaul is approved. It looks like Florida may have learned their lesson from the past election and are overhauling their entire election process. Included is a provision to deny state matching funds for donations from out of state for statewide candidates. I like this.

Posted by Justin Thyme 08:18:39 PM | Permalink for Entry 3525050.

I've been using Opera - the fastest browser on earth! for my browsing lately. That is the main reason for the lack of updates to this site. The little 'blog this button isn't available to me in Opera. Other than that it is a very good, standards compliant browser that is available for wide variety of platforms.

Posted by Justin Thyme 10:19:03 AM | Permalink for Entry 3492869.

Okay, I told you I'd let you know my logic behind implementing HTML that would break some older browsers. I think this website, The Web Standards Project: Fighting for Standards in our Browsers, can present my case much better than I can. Basically it boils down to time. By implementing CSS and a standard design across my site I can save myself a bunch of editing time when I need to make a change across my entire site.

It is time consuming to try to keep everything updated on this site. Some times things just don't get done because this site isn't bringing in a dime and I've got to budget my time to things that will bring in some money or will keep my wife and kids happy. The easier it is to update this site the more often I'll do it and things won't get as stale as they have been lately.

BTW, notice the forums section in the menu bar to the right. Until I get a comment system operating on this site the forums are as good a place as any to comment on my entries.

Posted by Justin Thyme 09:46:15 PM | Permalink for Entry 3473348.

I'm in the middle of switching the design for my entire site over to using cascading style sheets and heading toward HTML 4. This will break some of the older browsers. I apologize for that but it has to be done to move in the direction that I'm wanting to move toward. I'll try to explain why a little later but right now I'm wrestling with some gremlins. My HTML is not validating and I can't see where the problem is.

Posted by Justin Thyme 09:06:25 PM | Permalink for Entry 3472899.