Bush Pulls Away from Kerry in the Polls

August 31, 2004

Mr Kerry is imploding. His entire campaign, self-built on Vietnam, is coming down around him. The very medicine he served up as a weapon is turning on him and, as the Republicans launch their convention in New York, Kerry finds himself at a staggeringly profound deficit in the approval polls, where he was neck in [...]

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Daschle Throws Support Behind Bush

August 30, 2004

Ummm, okay. The top Senate Democrat, according to a story filed by Matt Drudge, has just released a new campaign ad that supports Bush and seeks a coat-tail ride. Have things gone that far down with the Democrats that they seek to capitalize on the Republican President??

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Rampage on Teenie-Bloggers

August 27, 2004

No, I dont’ want to read poetry on a website.
No, I don’t want to look at sites filled with meaningless propaganda.
No, I don’t care about your shoutbox filled with people that apparently know you. If you intend the site for your “peeps” then make sure I can’t get to it. Otherwise you’re wasting my bandwidth.
No, [...]

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Blogging the Republican National Convention

August 27, 2004

Chris Beauchamp produces a list of new media journalists at the RNC next week.

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Creating Ongoing National Public Psychosis

August 27, 2004

Since the attacks of 2001, this country has gone from crazy to super, uber-paranoid. The best way to achiueve control over a person or entity is to instill fear, which in turn, produces dependence. As horrific as the attack of 9/11 were, they have proved a point pronounced by limited-government types for years – the [...]

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RSS as the New Search Mechanism

August 27, 2004

Jeremy posted a great link about the new direction for searching the internet. He makes the argument that web searching (Google, Yahoo, Etc) has become an obsolete method of scouring the net for information. It is obsolete due to inconsistent web page structure and non-standard ways of structuring relevant data. On the other hand, feed [...]

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CD Recommendation

August 26, 2004

I’m not sure who your favorite band is, but mine is U2. I just purchased “In the Name of Love”, a benefit/tribute album by various artist. I highly recommend it. I’ve had it in my CD player for three days now. Pillar presents a hard-edged version of “Sunday Bloody Sunday”. If you like like [...]

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Cyber Sleuth

August 25, 2004

The vast majority of today has involved confiscating a users computer and rummaging through it for evidence? Why, you say? Recently, our group was tasked with ensuring enough hard drive space for an upcoming Office 2003 SMS push. This users computer was reported by SMS as not having enough space. Upon investigation, it was discovered [...]

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Godfather Martini

August 24, 2004

Quite good.
Over the rocks:
1 3/4 oz of Scotch
1 oz of Amaretto
2 will give you a good buzz if you are a welterweight.

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I’m Someone’s “Secret Mentor”

August 24, 2004

Well, this was quite a fascinating surprise. I recieved a message today from someone who shall, for his own piece of mind, remain anonymous. He is a mentor over at Sitepoint Forums who I, in my days as an Advisor, had voted to bring on board as a mentor.
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Sexiest Olympic Athletes

August 24, 2004

According to uDate, a survey of members found that the sexiest female American athletes at the Athens games were:
Amanda Beard, Swimming 26%
Misty May, Beach Volleyball 21%
Mia Hamm, Soccer 19%
Jennie Finch, Softball 12%
For the men, the list is:
Michael Phelps, Swimming 42%
Jeff Nygaard, Beach Volleyball 21%
Blaine Wilson, [...]

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