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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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A while back, my brother on his blog wrote the following about my blog about the future of search:
http://sentientsearch.net/2008/05/05/oh-dear/
Well…some of the points he mentions are good and I happen to agree with the spirit of them.  However, it’s always good to know when, as far as how search will progress and what the next step […]

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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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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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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 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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Of all places, Popular Mechanics published an article about the fact that Social Networking is killing web search. The article was, in my mind, not as “deep” as it could have been but sparked a good blog idea. The article reads as though incorporating Web 2.0 social-based content is more about adding social […]

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