Tuesday, September 30, 2003

The Presidency Wars

This article in the New York Times by David Brooks (recommended by my favorite blogger Andrew Sullivan, sheds a little light on all the political heat we see nowadays, and makes the case for calm, for civility and for knowledge.

Friday, September 26, 2003

Once more we cry "monopoly"?

Microsoft-haters, abetted by the sleazeballs at AOL, Sun et al, now have an issue they can jump on. See News: Report: Microsoft dominance poses security risk. The study in question was paid for by the same folks who invited know-nothing congresspersons and judges into the software industry a couple years ago. What government lackey really has the knowledge to actually create software and systems any better than Microsoft (or Linux developers, or Sun developers)? Yes, security is a problem and yes, MS is the prime target -- mainly because it's used by so many, and because the company is successful. While it may be true that the ubiquity of MS operating systems is part of the problem, it's also part of the solution -- i.e., fix a hole in one place, and it's fixed everywhere. Why should MS suffer for its success? I don't like everything MS makes, either, but I DO have choices, despite the Gates-bashers.

There really is good news in Irag

If only someone will print it. The dominant media really focuses on the negative. But why? Oh, umm, could it be political bias? Daniel Henninger's piece in today's Opinion Journal addresses this.

Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Compatibility of Weblogs and ISSN

This is an interesting article by Joe Clark, not only about problems of ISSN registration for web logs, but about the validity of web logs as publications. An ISSN number is the number assigned to periodicals listed in an exhaustive encyclopedia used by libraries. Apparently, and I didn't know this, many web logs have ISSN registration. As of late, the registrars have been turning down registrations for various arbitrary and/or irrational reasons, and Joe's article examines this, while making the case that blogs really are publications -- it's just that now they're in the rabble's hands.

Saturday, September 20, 2003

Back in Business

Watizit Creative Idea Generation Tool is back in business for your creative idea generating pleasure.

Friday, September 19, 2003

Wesley Clark

Today's entry from www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish talks about the Clark "approach" to Iraq, which basically means we trust the people we can't trust and don't trust the people we can. Is THIS what the democrats want to hand us as a viable alternative to George Bush? I'd never vote Democrat anyway, given the way the party continually tries to stack the judiciary, but Clark appears to be evidence of true desperation. I would say it goes beyond mere appearances if it weren't for the support of the Clintons. Their involvement makes the whole candidacy appear very curious. As wrong headed and power-hungry as those two are, they're not stupid, so what gives?

Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Cholesterol 229 -- diet and exercise required, doctors say.

Residents of Elkhart Indiana were stunned Wednesday morning to learn that Dave Dufour, software salesman, actor/director and raconteur, was found to have a cholesterol count of 229. Dufour could not be reached for comment, but a source close to the Dufour family said "He's too goddam fat, is the problem. I mean, the guy is honey-ham on stilts. Just look at him, for Chrissake."

Less charitable acquaintances, who refused to be named, referred to him as "tubby", "lard-ass" , and "Al Roker, the early years."

Dufour, currently in seclusion, plans drastic measures.

Monday, September 15, 2003

Daniel Drezner's Blog

Just another blog recommendation. This one was recommended by Andrew Sullivan, whose blog is one I read absolutely everyday -- at AndrewSullivan.com. Drezner is very, very good as well, although I find I'm not in TOTAL agreement with him all the time.

Sunday, September 14, 2003

The case for vouchers

Is there any question our education system isn't working when this kind of thing can happen? The Smoking Gun: Archive

Friday, September 12, 2003

Here's the Dave Barry column that caused such a ruckus with the telemarketing association. Funny stuff. Herald.com - Your Miami Everything Guide

Thursday, September 11, 2003

Barry Column Turns Table on Telemarketers

Yahoo! News - Barry Column Turns Table on Telemarketers -- This is perfect justice for an industry that gotten out of hand. I think people certainly have a right to sell, but before we had the Indiana version of the do not call list, we were getting inundated at home as well. How many of these people do you need to hang up on before they get the message that this kind of marketing (a voice-version of spam, because they block THEIR numbers from you so you have no one to complain to) is unacceptable?

Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Yahoo! News - LET SLIP THE TORT LAWYERS

Yahoo! News - LET SLIP THE TORT LAWYERS Disgusting and so, so, morally wrong I am stunned even the lawyers involved can feel good about this.
Blogger is not working as well on this new server as it did on the other one. Something funny about the FTP connections. It's throwing errors at me, but DOES seem to be publishing at the moment, although the settings seem unorthodox. Oh well.

Tuesday, September 9, 2003

Du4.com is back, partially.

My site is back, sort of, other than some clean up and reactivation of some of the navigation stuff. Also WATIZIT is at this moment non-operational, so don't try it just yet.
What happened was, we moved to a new server recently, and some things are still discombobulated. Check back in a week when my show at ECT is open and I have a little more downtime to mess with this thing. Also, continue to check Paige's Blog as it has now moved to Indiana University and the life of a college freshman girl is very interesting.
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