I spent Saturday photographing and videotaping an anti-war protest in downtown Ann Arbor this weekend that marked the first anniversary of the U.S. invasion last year. I’ve got hundreds of pictures and quite a bit of video to go through, so I’ll be posting images and video from the protest all week (including the closest…
March, 2004
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My alma mater, Western Michigan University, made the NCAA tournament by winning the Mid American Conference championship only to get blown out 71-58 by Vanderbilt in the first round (this after being 1 point favorites prior to tipoff). The upside was that since they were in the NCAA tournament, my daughter’s school had a WMU…
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Here is a very nice freeware version of locate/updatedb for Windows. Still in beta, but much better (obviously) than Windows lame search function.
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For some reason, this plan by SanDisk to sucker unsophisticated users into spending way too much to store their digital photographs, really gets under my skin. This gets me so angry, in fact, I’m tempted to stop buying SanDisk products. Basically, SanDisk is going to push small flash memory cards in the 32-64 megabyte range…
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The local anti-war group, Kalamazoo Non-Violent Opponents to War, held a protest on Saturday, March 13 to call attention to the number of people killed in the year since the U.S. invasion of Iraq began. They created life-size silhouettes to represent the dead, In the middle of the parade of silhouettes was a banner asking…
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This weekend I was thumbing through some computer gaming magazines and came across a profile of Garage Games. Basically, when Dynamix flamed out, some of the developers who had worked on Tribes 2 reached an agreement with the Sierra subsidiary to cheaply license and sublicense the Torque engine that powered Tribes 2. This is cool…
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So apparently Al Qaeda is taking responsibility for the terrorist attack in Spain, saying that it was done to punish that country for allying itself with the United States, specifically for Spain’s support of the war against Iraq. But wait a minute — that makes no sense at all. As we all know, the war…
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James Billington, who was last seen claiming that the Internet is just another dehumanizing extension of television, is at it again, this time dissing Google and the Internet, While some compare Google’s reservoir of six billion documents to the ancient library at Alexandria, it often feels like the shallowest ocean on earth. “Google can be…
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Like Jim Roepcke, I’m at a loss as to what to say about Seth Dilligham’s posts about his family’s recent loss. It’s just unimaginable to me the sort of pain that his family must be experiencing, and he and his family are in our thoughts.
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Dave Winer tries to offer an objection to a common argument against gay marriage — that if you allow gay marriage to happen, incestuous marriages between consenting adults are bound to follow, There are good technical reasons for disallowing marriage between relatives for genetic reasons. But if they chose to marry with the stipulation that…