Monday November 08, 2004

Buster's Blog

It isn't a real blog. Not even a real fake blog. It doesn't have any chronological navigation. Buster from the Arthur kid's show has blog. At the end of his new show they show a screen shot of the website and I noticed the graphic "My Blog". What is the 'market penetration' of an idea when even kid shows make use of the concept?
( Nov 08 2004, 08:43:05 PM ) Technology Permalink [Trackback]

email to president bush

I'm just wondering if you are familiar with the definition of the word fallible?

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Friday November 05, 2004

re: problems

This is an excellent rant on "problems"; that a problem is half-solved once accurately described. This is an issue I frequently have with my children. While I'm driving "look at that"; look at what? The classic "the computer isn't working" by which is meant "the browser has stopped responding". Too many other examples to list. I am constantly on them to provide me with specific information, so I can attend to what interests them or resolve the issue they are having.

The internets is slow.
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More Secession Fun

• My Modest Proposal
• New North America
• Canada 2.0
• Vote Maps: Note the comparision to 2000. How much of the (little) difference is due to redistricting?
• purple, by county

( Nov 05 2004, 08:16:31 AM ) Politics Permalink [Trackback]

Thursday November 04, 2004

re: purple haze

with some people pining to secede, I thought this map was interesting. The country isn't so divided as the red/blue maps portray. Someone did a red/blue by county, which I haven't seen. If you know the url for that, pass it on.

Update: here is the county map I referred to (via Crooked Timber et al). Interestingly Crooked Timber also shows a population map alongside/below.

Update 2: Another interesting map.
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Saturday October 23, 2004

the best dead blog of them all

Browsing through my bookmarks I rediscovered Gary Hart's Blog. He stopped posting back on March 15th 2004, which is a real shame as he had many good things to say. I particularly liked Where's Bobby? (Kennedy), Democracy By Combat, and Where do we go from here?. They are all good, really, follow the first link (to the main blog page) and read them all.
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Wednesday October 20, 2004

TCJUG: Advanced Hibernate

I attended the TCJUG meeting tonight. The presentation was billed as "Advanced Hibernate" but I noticed that the first slide said "Enterprise Hibernate". There were a couple nice (configuration) tips, but mostly it was basic hibernate and an example of how Hibernate meets the requirements of Scalability, Reliability, and Availability.

Afterwards I got to meet Kurt Wiersma and Will Gayther. Will, do you have a blog I just couldn't find? We had a nice chat. Maybe next time I should arrange for a beer gathering at the local Old Chicago?
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Re: Push Me Pull You

Almost 4 weeks ago Greg Wilkins posted some interesting ideas. I want to think some more about them before I comment. But I've had precious little thinking time of late (meaning the last 4 months or so). Or perhaps my thinking apparatus is just seriously on the blink. In any case, I'm keeping this article high in my consciousness until I can produce some meaningful commentary on it.
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