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Well, it’s Halloween again and it is time for my annual freak-out.  Is it ghosts?  No.  Is it zombies?  No.  Is it clowns?  No…well, yes, it is but it’s not the point of this blog.  No.  I had the glancing memory of it today that I normally have around this time of year and it […]

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I’ve been using Twitter as a way to vent more recently than I’ve been using the blog.  Why?  It’s infinitely quicker and if it’s not perfect or well crafted, oh well.  However, if you’ve been reading my past couple of tweets, I’m rather frustrated about the current effort to bail out the financial industry.  Bear […]

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I am biased, so everyone will jump on me as saying that a president doesn’t have to have served in the military to be commander in chief or a senator doesn’t have to be a doctor in order to pass health care legislation can go ahead and pile on.  However, I think there should be […]

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In my current job, I’m having to learn about the language Python so I am once in a while forced to go onto forums or read forums as a result of a google search to figure out the ins and outs of the language.  I dread doing this because people just become real idiots on […]

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Well, Jess woke me up Monday morning with the sad news–George Carlin died.  I remembered the first time I saw him perform on HBO.  It was the Jammin in New York concert.  He was incredible.  His political commentary was edgy, his situational humor was great, and he spoke with rhythm and energy and used the […]

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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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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 love Digg.  It’s a place where I can get a quick view of what is going on in the world politically, socially, and technologically, all of which is driven by a polling system that determines what is important and what isn’t so I don’t have to.  I also like The Onion…once in a while.  […]

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I read an article today about MIT’s new energy initiative that is giving researchers free reign to develop solutions to the problems dealing with solar energy.  With all of the power problems the world is facing in the next 20 years, these researchers working on alternative power supplies could end up being the same as […]

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Two news stories have emerged this week of people (read: a$$holes) who have done something outrageous to either "make people think" or "provoke discussion".  In the first instance, a pentecostal pastor posted a sign in front of his church linking Obama to bin Laden.  In the second instance, a Yale "performance artist" (which, if not […]

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