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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
  NYT Fashion & Style: Never heard of steampunk?
 
  MoDo on RoLo
Maureen Dowd critiques the recent Fox interview with Rush Limbaugh (love fest that it was). We have a limited appetite for Dowd but found this very much on target.
 
Monday, November 09, 2009
  The Fourth Kind of Palin
We'd trust Politico to give Palin more than a fair shake, so it's tough to say this was a hit job.
 
  RAM prices up
This is just one example of a trend we've been seeing. Chip manufacturers had ramped up production for Vista only to have it fizzle. Windows 7 has the same high memory requirements as Vista and all indications are that it will not be a repeat of the Vista debacle.

DDR2 memory prices are averaging about 50% higher than a year ago.
 
Saturday, November 07, 2009
  OpenOfficeMouse
Slightly cheaper than the MSFT Office Student software.
 
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
  Bogus Twitter arrest after G20 protest
 
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
  Memo to Media Matters: Fox News neither red nor blue, it's yellow
We have been changing our view of Fox News. While acknowledging some obvious coincidence of interests, Fox News strategy is plainly driven to increase viewers rather than towards any long term interests of the Republican party.

This type of yellow, mercantile journalism is ultimately good for neither the country nor journalism.
 
Monday, October 12, 2009
  Ooh, ooh: Turnip tool
 
Saturday, October 10, 2009
  BSOD with Microsoft Security Essentials
We had previously installed the new security suite on WinXP machines and this was an attempt to use it on our Vista powered primary machine. Upon installation the computer installed updates for Silverlight and MSFT Visual C++ with the BSOD result on restart. It took several restarts before the computer was able to check for a solution online. At this time it appears the problem has cleared itself.

We found the events but no usable information in the system logs.

Update: Maybe not over yet. Vista indicated there was a problem with Flash Player (probably not a coincidence this came with the Silverlight update) which we attempted to solve by uninstalling the player and reinstalling it. Then there was a problem caused by sticking the Readyboost flash drive back in the computer. It has been in the computer for some time with no problems. However, there were files on the disk that made it bootable so we removed them. We are still wading through this.

One day later: It appears this problem has been cleared.
 
Friday, October 09, 2009
  Google and Microsoft move on real-time search of Twitter
Extremely important move to maintain relevancy of search functions. We are sure Facebook is watching this closely with an eye towards monetizing any relationship or function.

The social networking platforms seem prone to high noise factors and a large degree of fickleness. The search providers should be prepared to deal with these issues.
 
Monday, September 28, 2009
  Fall guy appointed at NY Times
We found nothing wrong with the Times's judgment in not jumping on this bandwagon to a beat set by a right wing chorus. They carried an AP story that covered the essential news points of the day.

The paper's judgment can be faulted for not providing the analysis that can set apart a newspaper's style of journalism from all the other supposed alternatives: The ACORN sting story needed perspective. Reflexively responding to the right's calls of bias does nothing to maintain the intellectual integrity and veracity of the paper. The charges of bias are just as politically motivated as were the videographers.

ACORN now has a chance to remake itself and develop a deeper community base (they'll pay a penalty for stupidity and lose federal dollars). But some other unintended good may come of this, also.

The legislation that will deny federal contracts to ACORN could just as easily deny contracts to Blackwater/Xe, KBR and Halliburton for their misdeeds.
 
  Telco immunity back in the game?
This is a few days old but good news all the same.
 
  Ahmadinejad as myth-buster
The fact remains that a world without him and Michael Ledeen would be a better place.
 
  Apple demonstrates "Freedom of the press belongs to the owner of the press"
Apple has created a closed system and people are buying into the "nanny" system by the millions.
 
Friday, September 18, 2009
  Spy case bears watching
The analyst had a high security clearance but there was something about the program involving the 902nd Military Intelligence Battalion that kept him returning, after an accidental discovery, to the material that he did not have authorization to view.

The 902nd has previously been involved in domestic surveillance of anti-war protesters.
 
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
  How many high-fives does the Van Jones score warrant?
He called Republicans "assholes": Repug use of words like Hitler and Nazi is so much more genteel. Shucks, why not pack a gun to up the warm, pink and fuzzy factor?

He signed a goofy petition; Shrub's machinations around 9-11 were so bizarrely stupid as to invite contemplation of the absurd.

Obama cut loose a low-level functionary in a patronage job rather then let the matter become a distraction. There was no missed scoop. All the President had to do was dig in his heels to make this story just one more bit of spittle off the foaming mouths of the shout-machine.
 
Monday, September 14, 2009
  "Norma Rae" inspiration dies
Brain cancer took Crystal Lee Sutton. She lived modestly despite what others thought the movie would have brought her.
 
  The Bush Legacy
Couldn't run the wars he started (Iraq and Afghanistan- the other isn't a war) and screwed-over most of the people he governed.

Obama has been a disappointment but he'll have to solidly peg the "Fail" meter to outdo his predecessor.
 
Saturday, September 12, 2009
  Whitfield Diffie on wiretapping
Diffie has probably forgotten more about information technology than most of us will ever know about the subject.
 
Friday, September 11, 2009
  Loudmouth Wilson learns what Limbaugh and Hannity already knew
It's good for the money.

It seems he could use it.
 
Thursday, September 10, 2009
  Corn and Pinkerton on Bloggingheads.tv
More contentious than usual as they cover health care reform and Obama's address to a joint session of Congress.

Pinkerton's argument that "death panels" exist because doctors will be paid gives one of those opportunities to ask for that person's medical coverage: The kind of coverage wherein doctors work for free.

The pairing remains one of the best on Bloggingheads.
 
iconoclastic will do, thank you.

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