I support the complete privatization of Social Security, and would favor a lot more radical plans than the Bush administration is likely to propose. Even then, I can’t imagine any sort of meaningful reform will be enacted until it is far too late and the system is on the verge of collapse. The thing about…
December, 2004
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Watching the video and reading the stories coming out of Asia and Africa of the recent tsunami’s has been a bit surreal. It was hard enough to comprehend a single terrorist attack killing almost 3,000 people. Death on the scale of hundreds of thousands of people in a weekend is far beyond what I can…
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I haven’t posted a fan letter about Conversant in awhile, but since Macrobyte just implemented a number of upgrades/new features this is a good time to re-visit my content management system of choice. The thing that continues to excite me about Conversant is how it well it balances the power/ease-of-use equation. Over the past six…
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Just like the fundamentalist and evangelical Christians, we atheists have to endure a lot of idiocy from self-righteous, idiots who call themselves atheists and make the rest of us look bad. Fox News’ Brit Hume reports on one of these folks, An effort to boost Christmas Tree recycling in Chicago has come under fire by…
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Although it is far from perfect, Mobipocket remains my preferred ebook reader for the PocketPC. After playing around with it for most of the day, I am also impressed with the Mobipocket Creator 4.0 Home Edition. It has a nice drag and drop function that lets you take HTML files, drop them into the software…
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Boing! Boing! points to Mike Brotherton releasing his scifi novel Star Dragon under a Creative Commons license. Brotherton has text, RTF and HTML versions of the novel on his web site. For those, like me, using MobiPocket Reader on a PDA, I’ve created a MobiPocket version of Star Dragon. Update: This can now be downloaded…
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I take a lot of photos — I’ve averaged just under 7,000/year for the last several years. I’ve been looking for a good program to track, organize and edit all of those photographs for the past couple years with little success. The basic problem was everything that had the power to do what I wanted…
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I have a reputation at work as the gadget guy — I’m always showing up at meetings with some new gadget that I’ve purchased or am demo-ing. My view is that life is short, and anything that can help me finish more tasks in less time is always worth a try. Last March I bought…
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(You’d think, by the way, that for that additional $5 the folks at the mall could have given us more than a 187kb JPEG.)
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This Boing! Boing! link is fascinating, I think, because it really highlights just what partisan hacks the authors of that particular blog have become. Here’s the short version — a kid in India uses his cell phone to take video of some girl giving him a blow job. Someone posts a copy of the video…