The local paper ran James Lileks’ op-ed about Hamas’ announcement it had abandoned the terms of the truce with Israel. Lileks opens his op-ed with this bit, “Hamas Abandons Truce After Israeli Strike” read the Yahoo headline on the Associated press story. A reasonable reaction. Hamas had just been pushed too far. They send out…
August, 2003
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These are pictures I took at an Aug. 12, 2003 anti-war protest. Here’s a basic crowd shot. There are a few more people off to the left of the frame: These are all pretty generic statements, “Work for peace” – “A veteran for peace” – “They lied to us” – “No more wars” One of…
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I’ve complained several times that the current RSS aggregator I’m using — Radio Userland — doesn’t have any way to categorize the dozens of RSS feeds I’m monitoring and, unfortunately, what looks like the aggregator with the featureset I want is only available on the Macintosh. The upside is that people seem to be developing…
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Last year I wrote about ActiveWords, which is hands down one of the best Windows utilities I’ve ever used. ActiveWords makes it easy to trigger relatively complex sequences of events just by typing a keyword into any text entry box. I mostly use it to handle many of the repetitive tasks that are involved in…
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Autism is a still poorly understood developmental disability that likely is neurological in origins. It is not caused by evil spirits, Church members had wrapped the boy in sheets to keep him from scratching himself and others, but the boy was allowed to sit “any way that he feels comfortable,” Hemphill said. “All I know…
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A few weeks ago, Macrobyte added a WYSIWYG textbox editor to Conversant. Works really nice, and the addition has made a lot of my users happier. I, on the other hand, really don’t like WYSIWYG boxes for routine editing, although it does come in handy in some situations. One of the nice things about Conversant…
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I completely agree with this Arstechnica posting, I’ve never sent out a virus email in my life, yet I’ve recieved dozens of email messages from well-meaning antivirus systems to tell me I have, simply because the systems take the forged From header as gospel. Indeed, for my own Inbox, the combination of these automated replies…
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Here’s a hilarious take on the capture of Ali “Chemical Ali” Hassan al-Majid in Iraq this week, Coalition Troops Capture ‘Conventional Ali’ (2003-08-21) — The Iraqi general formerly known as ‘Chemical Ali’ was captured this morning by Coalition troops. However, Ali Hassan al-Majid is now officially known as ‘Conventional Ali,’ since it is common knowledge…
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I don’t know much about organizing or pricing academic conferences, my wife is in charge of organizing a big-assed four day conference with thousands of attendees from around the world. She has some thoughts about BloggerCon’s pricing (her conference’s registration fee, by the way, comes in at less than $100 for four days).
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I’ve always been a fan of Michael Fumento, even when I disagreed with him, so it’s extremely disappointing to see Fumento lose his cool in this fallacy-filled attack on bloggers and blogging. Fumento has a legitimate complaint about a handful of bloggers, but choses to react with ad hominems and hasty generalizations about bloggers in…