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I’ll confess that I’ve kinda drank the “Obama Change” Kool-Aid.  It’s probably my last-ditch effort of not becoming completely jaded by the Federal Government.
Then Tuesday rolled around.  On Memorial Day, Obama made the claim that one of his Uncles helped liberate Auschwitz.  Number of things wrong with that; his mother was an only child and […]

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This will be my last (solely) Microsoft-hating/bashing blog for a while, I promise.  A few years ago, Alan Weisman wrote a book about what would happen if mankind suddenly disappeared.  With my previous blog entry, it got me to start thinking.  Microsoft has really gone off it’s meds.  A number of things have happened recently […]

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Hey.  I’m back.  Did I miss anything?
Now that I am solidly in place at my new job, I feel I can take the opportunity to burn some bridges and take some loving (or not-so-loving) swipes at our good friends at Microsoft.  For those of you who don’t know, I had an interview with […]

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A while back I posted some forum messages to the Prelinger Archive about reviving the September 11 Television Archive.  It was a website that was developed very shortly after 9/11 and included all of the television coverage for 9/11-9/13 for FOX, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and other networks.  It disappeared in 2002-2003 and I was […]

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I just noticed while looking at my feed in google reader that there are annoying question marks in the text.  I think this has to do with my using double spaces in posting the blogs.  I’m going to try to find a way of cleaning it up in the next couple of days/week.  It’ll be […]

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Good lord.  I’m trying to set up a new way of banking for Jess and myself for once we get married.  I’m wanting to work with a bank with good online banking services and yet still have branches nearby.  Wachovia seemed a reasonable choice.  I looked online for reviews and I found several sites where […]

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I wrote a somewhat rambling post that, in a way, showed I was interested in seeing how far Obama could go in the campaign.  I think that with the idiocity that has emerged in the past month in all of the campaigns, that I need to revise my position.  I am, at the moment, not […]

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