http://www.brianporter.ca/ranting.html The rants and ramblings of a grumpy man; thousands of words of intolerance. en-us Copyright (c)2003-2010 by Brian M. Porter webmaster@brianporter.ca webmaster@brianporter.ca http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-07-16.html You know the folks I'm talking about ... the unhappy ones who nevertheless 'know' just what you need in your life. These are the people who think 'you should' are two words that form a perfect union as long as they are coming from their mouths. brian@brianporter.ca Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:47:00 PDT http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-06-21.html Life after death is an unknown, of course; however, what to make of those eerily consistent reports relayed by people who are returned to life after clinically dying? brian@brianporter.ca Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:06:00 PDT http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-06-07.html Raising children is not as much about the children as I thought it would be: It's just as much about learning about myself ... and in a way that gives me a second chance at the things I missed the first time around. brian@brianporter.ca Mon, 7 Jun 2010 15:52:00 PDT http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-05-31.html The final push to the end of the sessions for the new CD, and the electric magic that resulted in one of the latest songs. brian@brianporter.ca Mon, 31 May 2010 16:11:00 PDT http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-05-10.html It's a fine line, sometimes. How far into justification does one go with the soldiers of past wars? They knew their role, didn't they? They know what their importance was, don't they? brian@brianporter.ca Mon, 31 May 2010 16:11:00 PDT http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-05-05.html What brave new future awaits us when there is no such thing as 'minority population'? brian@brianporter.ca Wed, 5 May 2010 16:47:00 PDT http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-04-28.html Really ... if these are the biggest problems we ever face, then I guess we're doing all right ... brian@brianporter.ca Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:06:00 PDT http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-04-26.html I can hear the reply already: If it bugs you so much, just turn it off, right? brian@brianporter.ca Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:36:00 PDT http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-04-14.html A friend, in her blog, painted the picture of those folks who just seem to like to argue for no reason at all ... and then I experienced one of those unpleasant people myself. Now I'm left wondering how they got that way. brian@brianporter.ca Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:03:00 PDT http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-04-01.html The fact we are the most dangerous and destructive (not to mention populous) of big non-insect creatures is proof we aren't that smart. brian@brianporter.ca Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:15:00 PDT http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-03-23.html Holy crapoli ... universal health care comes to the United States! brian@brianporter.ca Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:31:00 PDT http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-03-16.html Prison camp free markets, Marxist theory ... and the reality of how and why wealth is really redistributed to the less capable. brian@brianporter.ca Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:42:00 PDT http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-03-10.html Mostly through trial-and-error, but also through flashes of insight and some planning, the Infrastructure Generation created the infrastructure of application development--engineering, testing, documentation practices, as well as the communication protocols and processes of the Internet 1.0 that made Web 2.0 possible. brian@brianporter.ca Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:52:00 PDT http://www.brianporter.ca/rants/2010-03-09.html The sordid tale of my less-than-stellar athleticism. brian@brianporter.ca Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:51:00 PDT