To Those of You Paging Out for On-Call Support
You’d better have a damn good reason for waking me up. Ask yourself this: “Is somebody dying?” No? Then it can wait until morning.
You’d better have a damn good reason for waking me up. Ask yourself this: “Is somebody dying?” No? Then it can wait until morning.
With the office abuzz with rumors that IBM might purchase Sun, I’m tempted to ask myself if I really needed any reminders why I don’t read trade pub...
As previously mentioned, the school district needs to trim about $18.5 million in order to avoid a tax increase.
Really it’s not the shift in noon that I’m against — though there is a certain rightness to being able to look up at the sun and say, “a...
It seems to me that accidents would increase during the transitional period surrounding the switch between Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time. And apparentl...
I’ve added Google Friend Connect. I see that Feedburner says that there are 164 subscribers today, so I expect to have more than two members on the site. ...
The Big Sister had an informed response to the President’s suggestion that we send our children to school all year. They’d have to buy air condition...
Apparently President Obama remarked on education yesterday. For decades, Washington has been trapped in the same stale debates that have paralyzed progress and ...
John Battelle made some comment about Facebook and Twitter that Rick Klau shared in Google Reader the other day, and which I’m too lazy to find the link t...
During a depression, wages are sticky downward. That is, they do not drop quickly, though prices do. Instead, jobs are lost. Fine. I’m going to pretend I&...
The Arlington Central School District is treating this budget planning a bit differently than the past few, because of the severe fiscal pressures. This is a go...
In Sleeper (1973), there is discussion between Miles and Luna over belief in God. Luna starts, asking Miles. Miles responds in a typically Allen fashion. After ...
Why aren’t there more local millers in Tanzania? Or, why is international aid or investment required in order to process cassava, as this story on Marketp...
I’ve found that I put off going to work because I know the Internet connection there is limited.
I’ve just started John Keegan’s The First World War, on a topic of which I know little other than the abbreviated, over-simplified summary found in ...