Be forewarned. This is a rant. I’ve seen my fair share of “African-American” comedies (or as Dr. Abdul Hakim Jackson would say, Blackamerican comedies). Actually, I’m not even going to limit this to comedies, because I’ve seen quite serious dramas deteriorate in a similar fashion. What I’m referring to here is […]

I’ve successfully compiled and installed the new X11 release 6.9. It works perfectly, with composite and acceleration on an iBook G4 with a Radeon Mobility 9200. This is definitely progress.
EXA is lightning fast, and all of this without a proprietary ATI driver.
Many people have complained about the decision to not make Xgl a […]

The United States plans to use “low-yield” nuclear weapons against Iran.
Here is the entire plan.
Some of you might argue, “How do you know?” Well, the writing is on the wall that they plan to attack Iran, just as any intelligent person knew that, before 9/11, the US already had plans to attack […]

Zahra turned two years old on Friday. It was quite a hectic day with relatives over our house. Taubah went all out with the food and decorations, mashaAllah. Zahra has WAY too many toys, and she knows it. You can check out some of the photos in the gallery. I […]

I finally finished an article for OneUmmah.net that I had been working on for a couple of weeks. It is entitled, The Path of Reason. Please read it and let me know your comments, suggestions, and questions.
If you’d like to be a staff writer for OneUmmah.net, send me your literary bio (I […]

We finally set our student blog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog)ging in motion, after 5 months of planning (http://www.lanterntorch.org/content/view/146/0/). I started contemplating this in July and had the site designed in August. The rest involved waiting on the iBooks so that we’d have computers to use and using the stick/carrot technique with the teachers.
All seems well. […]

The X.org foundation (http://www.x.org)
has release its long awaited 6.9 and 7.0 versions of X11. According to X.org (http://www.x.org) the two releases are identical in source except that R7.0 features a new modularization that will be the future of a slimmer, more efficient desktop GUI system.
It is available for download now, and most appropriately, they’ve […]

This time of year in America is always amazing to me. I wouldn’t miss it for the world; not because I celebrate Christmas, but because it feels SO good to NOT celebrate it. I remember, growing up, how stressed people got, how I would make sure my “santa” list wasn’t too much for […]

From this article
The biggest [reasonable] criticism of the Clinton administration was its sanctions on Iraq that led to the starving of countless Iraqi children. Sec. State Albright shrugged it off, while the Bush administration was quick to put the blame on Saddam for squandering oil-for-food money (which we all now know was a farce), […]

I’m finished with MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, and all the other proprietary messaging protocols. It’s WAY too much work to keep track of all of it.
If anyone really wants to chat with me, they can do it with jabber:
adibudeen@jabber.anywise.com
To find out more, go to http://www.jabber.org