Archive for the 'Advocacy' Category

May 27 2008

This video should disturb you

Published by Diann under Advocacy,Personal

The trauma the little bay horse in this video suffers is absolutely heart-wrenching. It should NOT have happened. In my entire history with horses, horsemen, and cowboys alike (yes, I do count them as different beasts), I’ve never seen such a despicable, unadulterated lack of compassion. If this is representative of the rodeo industry as [...]

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Nov 12 2006

Moving to Linux

Published by Diann under Advocacy,Technology

Well, the day has finally arrived. I have fancy new Dell Dimension E521 with an AMD dual core processor and Windows XP Home edition included. I started with Kubuntu on my laptop about 4 months ago and although I have a looooong way to go, I feel confident enough to call it my default OS. [...]

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