Cav's Place

The concept of a resource-based economy has been most notably promoted over the past few years by the Zeitgeist Movement and I find myself largely agreeing with it despite having issues, occasionally big ones, with the other concepts they promote. However, while the Zeitgeist movies helped me iron out some details, I have been thinking […]

On January 18, the Internet united to fight against SOPA and PIPA. However, the fact that everyone had their sights on that battle meant that their big brother, ACTA, which is an international treaty that has flown under the radar all along, seeming like a distant threat to all but those who were at the […]

Just realized yesterday that I won’t exactly have enough time for a non-personal post this weekend, so I’ll need to write two of them next week. However, I found myself getting carried away in a comment I posted on Facebook right after I woke up yesterday, where I ended up listing the basics of my […]

Two power failures in less than 24 hours, each of them lasting four hours and ten minutes. And this is otherwise a reasonably good area as far as the power grid is concerned, not showing up on any of the maps that highlight the places where such problems are frequent. But, of course, such things […]