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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
I just finished reading the article "The Story Behind the Story" in this month's Atlantic Magazine where Mark Bowden goes through the backstory and context of the videos of now Justice Sotomayor. The article takes on the fall of real journalism and its replacement with political hit jobs. As someone ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
There have been a couple of actions taken by the Obama Administration that have left people scratching their heads. The first occurred soon after taking office when his Justice Department, instead of doing as everyone thought that they would and not continuing Bush's State Secrets claims, instead pushed the idea ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
It was nice to see Bill Clinton speak, there's just something about that guy. It was pretty funny when the crowd looked like it could keep cheering for hours when he got up on stage.
I also enjoyed seeing Joe Biden speak. There were some bits that were repeated out of ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
I really can't explain why, I just am. It's the whole issue with believing that something should go a certain way and then not really being confident that reality is going to follow through.
I'll probably spend the night watching the pundits talk for hours. Hopefully there will be some sort ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
I've been listening to some quarterly earnings conference calls for several businesses over the last couple weeks and something struck me during the last one. There are very defined rules for what can be said during these calls as well as most of the rest of the communications that ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Army's unmanned aerial drone kills for the first time.
A Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle engaged and killed two suspected improvised explosive device emplacers overwatching a major thoroughfare for Coalition Forces during a historic flight near Qayyarah, Iraq, in Nineveh province Sept. 1.
And of course that's Judgement Day in the Terminator sense.
And ...
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
I saw two posts today showing that the pendulum of reason is finally swinging back in the right direction. The first was over at Glenn Greenwald's Blog and deals with making good on the intelligence mistakes of the last several years. Only problem is that it's the Canadian Government that's ...
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
Went to see "V for Vendetta" sunday morning and was very pleasantly surprised. I felt the movie was even better than the book. They changed a few aspects of the story and simplified some plot points and toned it down a bit, which all worked together to create a ...
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
Bruce Schneier has an excellent article on why datamining for terrorists isn't statistically feasible.
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Saturday, January 21st, 2006
I'm starting to see a change in the feelings of the people around me in acceptance of using online applications. I'm hearing the same things over and over again.
Why do I have to install this again
I just need that file that's on the other computer
I really don't want to ...
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
Just as there really isn't a war on drugs, there isn't really a war on terror. Until communities can form militias and open fire on the enemy combatants on our street corners selling heroin we're not really at war. Of course everyone understands that waging war in the streets ...
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Monday, November 14th, 2005
With my linux setup I've been pushing the edge of what you can do on a laptop. I run vmware so that I can test Windows applications. VMware isn't the happiest with the setup though. It won't run bridged mode netwoking over a wifi nic. You have to use nat ...
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Thursday, September 15th, 2005
I was listening to the podcast of KQED's Forum this morning and the topic was the long term health effects of Katrina. There were some comments made during the show that got me thinking about the differences between the hurricane and 9/11.
I don't know if there was any measurable ...
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