My favorite (and the best) Internet Forum turns four years old on April 6. It’s managed by my best friend and web design partner, Ivan. AND … it’s got a slick new look, too! Congrats, dawg. Here’s to many more….

Cross-posted to my Opera Community blog at my.opera.com/jonimueller.

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Good. Another worthless thug is off the streets today thanks to Baytown’s Finest.

The officers did give the subject orders. He did not comply and the shots were exchanged,” Baytown Police Department Officer Lisa Rynearson said.

Police said Harrison, 18, was shot several times and died at the scene.

“I need to know why he was shot, how many times he was shot, what he was shot for,” said Nick Haynes’, Harrison’s cousin. [And get that shitting apostrophe out of that last name. It doesn't belong there. Didn't someone proofread this story?!]

Investigators said Harrison was going to drive them to an ATM so he could take their money.

What an asinine bunch of questions. Why was he shot? He raised his gun at the officer(s). How many times was he shot? He was shot “several” times and is dead. What more do you need to know? It’s called cause and effect, by the way. What was he shot for? Well, he was planning and in the midst of executing an armed robbery. Listen, this guy wasn’t exactly a Boy Scout, was he?

There’s apparently a new and groovy computer system in place at the Houston Municipal Court. But something went horribly, horribly wrong. What? Human nature intervened. Take people who have been doing something a certain way for 18 years and throw new technology at them and watch the devastation. It’s not pretty.

City officials said Monday’s performance of the computer system was better than a trial run in January. They said it could take between 30 and 90 days for the system to be at full speed.

Which begs the question, why deploy it now, then? Train them behind the scenes and roll it out in 30-90 days when all users are trained. Am I missing something here?