The Techwriter's Prayer

The Techwriter's Prayer

Dear Lord,

Please keep the malware writers at bay
So we can all sleep a little easier today
You know how much we need our rest
As our frayed nerves can very much attest

Spare us, O Lord, from red or yellow alerts
From nasty malware that give us the squirts
From added paperwork large and larger
It only makes the day that much harder

Keep us strong, O Lord, that we may
Come back to our shift on the next day
Please lend mercy to those who must
Extend thirteen hours on my mistrust

Before I forget, thank you for the pay
It bought me a brand new PDA.

Something Useful from Law School

If you want to legalize marijuana, you have to do it yourself. Apparently, if Congress is too scared of the Church or the tobacco lobby to legalize pot, you can do it yourself!

If you want to legalize marijuana, and there are enough people who believe that marijuana should enter the 21st century, you need 3,790,018 (people, signified by their) signatures petitioning the Comelec for a referendum, with at every legislative district represented by at least 3% of its voters, or at least 7,500 people per legislative district.

Of course you'll need something like 19 million signatures to ratify such a proposal, but stranger things have happened.