This week the Supreme Court will take up the case of a man convicted for a rather minor count of marijuana possession. How they eventually decide the case will determine whether or not the Court continues to gut the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizures. The case is pretty straightforward. Charles McArthur’s estranged…
October, 2000
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According to CNN, some French Christian leaders are urging people in that nation not to celebrate Halloween claiming, among other things, that it is Satanist and detracts from the Catholic All Saints Festival. The only problem there is that the Roman Catholic Church originally created All Saints Day to get people to stop celebrating a…
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Jon Udell has another article raving about Groove. When you join a Groove shared space, you get all the stuff, and it looks the same to you as it looks to everybody else. It’s no more effort to invite a colleague behind a foreign corporate firewall than it is to invite a colleague in the…
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It seems like it took forever, but I finally managed to kick the bronchitis that’s plagued me since the end of September. Basically for the last 6 weeks my life has been get up, go to work, come home, collapse on couch, repeat. This weekened I got home Friday around 6 p.m. and didn’t leave…
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About a year ago I signed up several of my smaller sites to carry ad banners served up by Teknosurf which later became Advertising.Com. I was kind of surprised they were even interested since the page views for the three sites couldn’t have been over 1,500 per day combined, even on very good days. Finally…
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Yikes. The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft will begin an experiment next month renting Microsoft Office at Internet cafes in New York City’s Times Square. According to the report they’re going to charge $2 per session for using Microsoft Office. That ridiculously high fee looks even worse when you consider that’s on top of…
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The other day I ordered some books from Amazon.Com — mainly because the local stores take forever to order books from some small publishers through their distributors, while Amazon.Com usually ships them out to me in less than 48 hours. For the most part, I find the discount Amazon offers is usually offset by the…
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In Michigan, where I live, the group opposed to a voucher initiative that will be voted on November 7th is saturating local radio and television stations with ads denouncing the voucher proposal. According to the anti-voucher ads, vouchers will destroy education in Michigan, cause taxes to skyrocket, and any number of other horrible problems. The…
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Writing for MP3Newswire, Richard Menta claims that Radiohead’s recent debut at #1 is due in large part to the album being available on Napster 3 months before it was scheduled to be released. According to Menta this sort of music never shows up on Billboard charts usually. Sure, that’s why Nirvana had such success with…
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The first time I paid for software online and downloaded the program to my hard drive rather than go to a store or wait for it to arrive via UPS, I thought it was an interesting novelty. Today I pretty much consider it a necessity. I ran across a program today that I really wanted…