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MarchMar 26 Wednesday 08
Updates and stuff about things
Well, I've sent out my first resume. We'll see how this goes. I've found another listing online for a job that I'll probably be applying for this evening. At first I was kind of bummed, but now I'm looking at this as an opportunity, and its lit a bit of a fire under …
MarchMar 24 Monday 08
Infrastructure
photo © Michael Jastremski for openphoto.net CC:Attribution-ShareAlike
MarchMar 23 Sunday 08
Sugar plantation ruin on the Island of Nevis
photo © Ev Nucci for openphoto.net CC:PublicDomain
MarchMar 21 Friday 08
ugh
So I found out yesterday that I'm losing my job. They're doing a realignment, and mine is one of the jobs to go.
I've just got to look at this as an opportunity. It could end up being the best thing that ever happened to me.
Hungarian presentation in Essen
photo © Christian Schmitz for openphoto.net CC:Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
MarchMar 19 Wednesday 08
Nonsense of Indecency
Reason Magazine - Nonsense of Indecency - The words you can never say on TV, except when you can
In most of the places where this column appears, the four-letter words it contains will not be spelled out. Instead they will be rendered as initial letters followed …
The Fed's New Tricks Are Creating Disaster
The Fed's New Tricks Are Creating Disaster - Frank Shostak - Mises Institute
The Federal Reserve is trying a range of new tricks to push new forms of lending as a means of preventing what they fear may otherwise be a major collapse in financial markets. What all …
Black Guy Asks Nation For Change
MarchMar 18 Tuesday 08
Indie labels bypass iTunes, give digital sales a shot
Indie labels bypass iTunes, give digital sales a shot
It's easier than ever for bands to get their tunes where fans can buy them. Anyone with a computer, a guitar, and a microphone can now label him- or herself a "singer/songwriter," churn out some songs, and have …
RIP Arthur C. Clarke
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Clarkes Second Law, from Profiles of the Future (1962)
Dear Democrats of Pennsylvania,
I know it's still a month away, but I'm asking you all for a favor. Please do not vote for Hilary Clinton. I'm not too keen on Obama, but we can't have another corrupt Clinton administration. The Clinton's make the Bush junta look remarkably ethical and principled. …
MarchMar 17 Monday 08
What's This "Linux" Thing and Why Should I Try It?
What's This "Linux" Thing and Why Should I Try It? | MakeUseOf.com
Lately, Linux has been receiving quite a bit of notice. Between the ASUS EeePC, the One Laptop Per Child project, Dell's new Ubuntu line, Intel's Classmate PC, and Everex's Green PC, Linux has been …
Pic of the day
I think I'm going to start posting a photo that I like from the web every day. It will get me some more posts, and provide something interesting to look at.
This photo comes from here. It's a church in Slovenia.
