2008 October

First, it was Harry Smith with his song on The Early Show. Next it was the huge maps in red, pink, grey, light blue, and blue to show where the race might be going, and now someone has gotten an idea from the Palin household – secession. It’s an idea whose time has come. [...]

One of the things I tend to take pride in is the open minded attitude I have about life. I try to live and let live, knowing that there are many ways to live a life, that my life has been far from perfect, and there is always more than one way to a [...]

While on the stump today, John McCain was spewing all the usual rhetoric concerning Barack Obama, and then, out of nowhere, told the audience that he would never push back the beginning of a World Series game for an infomercial.
See title.
John McCain is only not doing it because he doesn’t have the money to do [...]

At this point in the life of the operating system known as Windows (whatever flavor), you might think that all the basics would be worked out.
Not at Microsoft.  Code review must be something that these people think that they are somehow above. After 25 years of writing the code for a GUI operating system, most [...]

From ZDNet this morning, an article that speaks of the changes that must be made to Windows 7, in order to make it palatable to the masses, lists 5 things at the top of the heap.
Jason Hiner makes the case for big changes starting with speeding up the execution of code, noting that, shutting off [...]

The Question: Why did we allow someone like Henry Paulson, a George Bush crony, to control the largest cash giveaway bailout in history?
Take a look here, and see if you don’t agree. Also, remember, that Paulson was one of the ‘bad guys’ we’re supposedly fighting. He already got his golden parachute before he went to [...]

Finally, an article about the way that the attorney general of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has been running roughshod over the rights of people in his pet project of removing child pornography from the world.
It’s only about 120 days too late.
That’s about how long it has been since the ISPs in my part of the [...]

After looking at the news programs that proliferate on Sunday morning, it is clear that a change is needed.
Tim Russert was someone who would back down the politicians like Lindsey Graham (between his continuous distortion of the facts, and his Jim Nabors delivery, I want to smash a few rotten tomatoes in his face), [...]

During these last few weeks of economic chaos, I have learned much about the way the monetary system works. Much of it I had never really cared to know, as I felt it had less an effect on my life than other, more pressing things.
Well, I think it has become clear to almost all who [...]

It seems that that darling of the market economy, the pied piper of the monetary policy, the ultimate hero of the greedy produce-nothing-and-make-obscene-profits-while-doing-it nation of free marketeers, Alan Greenspan, when brought before Congress today, to answer for his part in the disaster that is the U.S. economy, could only sputter and moan about the unforeseen [...]