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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Dear Senator Obama
Are you trying to lose our votes, or just revealing your interest in unrestrained Executive power now that you feel it is within your grasp?
Adjusting
I’ve noticed a number of retailers locally are refusing to take credit cards, or are requiring a minimum purchase. Large shops and chain stores aren’t, yet, but the pizza parlor, beer distributor, and locally-owned drug store are.
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As Cruel as Society Demands
I am not quite sure how this august panel of nine judges decides what constitutes a cruel and unusual punishment, unless it is by simply following the precedent rather than considering whether the punishment was properly enacted and in conformity … Continue reading
Remember, They Are Your Representatives
Dear Congressman Hall: Thank you for your thoughtful and considered response to the concerns expressed in my mail of February 15th this year. Unfortunately, I read this evening that the House passed a compromise bill (H.R. 6304) that contained language … Continue reading
Summer School
There’s been some concern among the professional educators about skills lost over the Summer since I was a small child, and that concern has not abated. Well, duh, of course some children are not as proficient in September as they … Continue reading
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Picking off the small, specific segments of the activist wing of the party
While Barack Obama currently has an edge over John McCain in the general election, he should take steps to remove the interest of those small, specific segments of the activist wing of the party in voting Republican. (One could view … Continue reading
Setting the Stage
I’m currently reading April 1865, an excellent book covering the events of the last month of the Civil War, which reminds us that how wars end is often of more consequence than how they start. It sets the stage for … Continue reading
Who Put the Fire in the Firefox?
Speed tests are showing a 2-4x improvement over Firefox 2 and 9x over Internet Explorer 7. Nine times faster than Internet Exploder 7! No more waiting on the Intarwebs! Get your Firefox today!
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Default Settings Set Expectations
>Browse with caret allows users to select arbitrary content with the keyboard and move through content as if inside a read-only editor. This allows copying arbitrary pieces of text to the clipboard. The F7 key toggles this feature on/off. I’m … Continue reading
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Google Maps Feature Request
Google Maps has topographic maps, and lets you enter multiple destinations for directions, avoid highways, and alter the route. So now I need the ability to save my itinerary so I don’t have to do that again. Oh, that’s right. … Continue reading
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Adobe, You Owe Me Money
I was wondering why my laptop was not idle when I wasn’t using it, because when I picked it up I burned my hand. Using the handy-dandy Task Manager, I saw that Mozilla Firefox was using 25% of this 1.8GHz … Continue reading
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All Kinds of Jargon
After reading The Austrian Economists site for a while now, I notice it shares some features with some papers Niall Ferguson posted on his website. Namely, name-dropping. I’ve been out of academia for 15 years now, since I graduated from … Continue reading
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Tired
One of Rick Klau’s shared items in Google Reader suggested that journalists today will need to know Photoshop, HTML, and a bunch of other crap to get a job. That may be so, but remember that computers are just a … Continue reading
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Beautiful Day
It’s a beautiful day out today. The wind chases fluffy white clouds across the sky. Leaves whisper in the breeze, counterpoint to the bullfrog’s basso. I can hear the sounds of baseball from the park. The girls are out playing … Continue reading
