Bush Drafts Samuel Alito for the SCOTUS

October 31, 2005

I admit, I have no idea who this guy is. He’s apparently a judge though and that’s an improvement. I will have to dig deeper to find out where he sits and what his judicial decisions have been like.
Update: I should know more about this guy, but apparently I don’t. [...]

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Judge Brown on the Victory of Socialism

October 30, 2005

Thanks to Mark for this quote. As I said on his blog, beautifully yet brutally accurate and insightfuly. It’s a shame she is right.
Democracy and capitalism seem to have triumphed. But, appearances can be deceiving. Instead of celebrating capitalism’s virtues, we offer it grudging acceptance, contemptuous tolerance, but only for its capacity to [...]

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Custom Playlist: Voodoo and Driving People Crazy

October 30, 2005

The request has come from my brother to create a playlist. He thought it would be impossible. It was not. Here ya go, Tim. :-)
Request: Too bad you can�t buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.
“Too bad you can’t buy a voodoo…”

“Superman”, [...]

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Georgia Loses, Alabama Wins

October 29, 2005

The Tide won easily over Utah State, hardly unexpected, but more
importantly, Florida beat #4 Georgia. You know what that means, right?
Georgia now is 4-1 in the SEC leaving [...]

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Democracy in Action

October 29, 2005

I will be posting a new poll every Friday. We can call it “Polling Friday”. I’m a little late with it this week as yesterday was so busy I couldn’t even breathe.
This week’s question is:
Based on the indictment handed down yesterday by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, do you believe “Scooter” Libby was the [...]

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Bubble 2.0 – The Bubble Diagram

October 28, 2005

Web 2.0 is getting old and it hasn’t even gotten new.
There is concern that it is creating a mini tech bubble.
Check out this funny diagram from Barb over at her Social Software Blog.

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Blogmarks on Hold

October 27, 2005

The idea that was Blogmarks has been temporarily put on hold. Yesterday, there was a long period of time where it would take this blog 45 seconds-a minute to load. Uncertain what the issue was, I narrowed it down to Blogmarks.
The way it works is everytime this blog is loaded, the blogmarks plugin [...]

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Office 12 Preview

October 27, 2005

I was in Pascagoula when this was released and I’m finding it now. There are some early feature previews and screenshots for the next generation of Microsoft Office available here. I wish I had some contacts at Microsoft to talk to about the UI.
I did talk to some friends who brought up the theory [...]

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Quitting Smoking: Day 5

October 27, 2005

Hey people–
Good news, I guess. It’s been five days and I have not touched a cigarette. The worst of the withdrawal seems to have passed. My sleep patterns seem to have returned to normal. My heart only races immediately after putting the patch on. My cravings have subsided. They [...]

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Congratulations, White Sox Nation

October 27, 2005

Congratulations to the Chicago White Sox on sweeping the Houston Astros 4-0 in the World Series. Though I wanted Chicago to win the series, my one regret is that they couldn’t have won in 5 instead. After all, I had a bet with Patrick at the Phoenix Emporium… :)

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WordPress Misunderstanding [UPDATED TITLE]

October 25, 2005

This would be the one and only time I have publically opposed the WordPress team. Matt announced their new anti-spam solution, Akismat, which filters all blog spam [...]

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