This post on Gideon’s Blog is really interesting. He’s really into a lot of the minutae of politics – to a level that I don’t have time for but find fascinating. I completely agree with him that Congress should just recess between now and January 2009. The current federal government is incapable of writing and [...]
Notice how the title of this post is properly capitalized: All the Meaningful Words of a Title are Supposed to be Capitalized. I am in the middle of reading a technical document at work. It’s the latest of several documents I’ve read at work that are badly written. One of the most annoying things I’ve [...]
snarfed.org writes about running shells inside of Emacs.
Not sure how to categorize this. Maybe I’ll add a “business” category or something. Anyway, as I’ve stated on this blog and elsewhere, I think cubes and “open” work areas are a Bad Idea (TM). Cubes have even been disowned by their creator. …headphones help.
Even heard the phrase “practice makes perfect”? I suppose if you accept a number of assumptions and generalizations, you might consider this to be true. Better, though, is the following phrase: Perfect practice makes perfect Practice doesn’t do you a lot of good if you’re practicing doing things the wrong way. If you spend 10 [...]
I wish sherriffs across all the border states would do this same thing. We need more of this: and less of this:
This just in! I have renamed my blog to be “Bloggo Ergo Sum”, and I have moved it to it’s own domain name: bloggoergosum.com and bloggoergosum.us. Enjoy not having to type that ‘~’ character!
United Nuclear – Site Stats Here we go. This page describes in more detail the action that the CPSC is taking against the company.
This is a travesty. Anyone who cares about the problems due to our reliance on a commodity provided in large part from states that could easily be called our enemies (I believe they would be if we didn’t need their oil so badly) should write letters to their senators, congressmen, and any other individuals that [...]