The local paper has an op-ed today about the status of the war in Iraq by Diether Haenicke. Haenicke spent about a decade as the president of Western Michigan University (the university I attended as an undergrad and currently work at). Haenicke also has a unique perspective on the war in Iraq as he spent…
November, 2003
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This is my weblog devoted to covering developments related to the Lord’s Resistance Army. The Lord’s Resistance Army is a rebel group based in Sudan that carries out attacks aimed at destabilizing the government of Uganda. The LRA is similar in many ways to groups like the Khmer Rouge. First, It engages in wholesale brutality…
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At the top of the list of stupid ideas that just won’t die has to be the idea that taxing e-mail might be an effective way to deal with spam. This is a bit like telling someone that the way to treat a migraine is with a shotgun blast to the head. Yes, it might…
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Last month I wrote about my disgust with people who, like me, are opposed to the animal rights movement but said some rather noxious things about Pamela Anderson’s fears that she may die within a decade from Hepatitis-C. An even bigger problem, however, are those in the animal rights movement who believe that it is…
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The other day I took Emma and Colin to visit my grandmother who is currently in her mid-80s. On the ride back, Emma had lots of questions about how and why people die. Specifically, she’s noticed that she has an abundance of grandmothers and great-grandmothers but just a single living grandfather and no great-grandfathers. She…
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I’ve been using Mozilla Firebird as my default web brower for months now, but hadn’t really had time to delve into the various extensions available for it. But then Seth Dillingham pointed to the EditCSS extension and I’m hooked. EditCSS appears as a sidebar that contains an editable version of the CSS of the page…
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Ximeta has an interesting external USB 2.0 hard drive that can also be connected directly to a LAN . . . sort of. Ximeta’s drive is Network Direct Attached Storage, which limits the environments in which it can be used as well as how it can be used. First, the drive is more-or-less for environments…
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Here’s an interesting weblog post by Lt. Smash criticizing a Tom Tomorrow comic about warbloggers who support the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. I think Tom Tomorrow’s argument is ridiculous, but not for the reason that Lt. Smash does. I think it’s pretty clear that Tom Tomorrow is making fun of what might be called…
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Although I am still not much of a fan of Fox News, one of the things that is admirable about the network is its spontaneity. On CNN or MSNBC, frankly you pretty much know what the talking head is going to say next. This is in marked contrast to Fox News which, at least to…
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So McDonald’s does not want people to use the term “McJobs” to refer to low end, menial jobs that have little chance for advancement. Well, of course, what better way to make sure people don’t use the term than to issue press releases and make statements so that every news media outlet around reports on…