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Article 24

Today I get the dubious honor of joining several of my friends who've been involved in traffic accidents, recently. It could have been worse. I was stopped at a red light, behind an SUV, when I heard...

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Article 23

This week, SCCC is conducting a nation-wide protest against various state bans on concealed carry on college campuses.Details of the protest are up on the Students for Concealed Carry on Campus web...

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Article 22

Last night I was watching an episode of Family Guy that TiVo had recorded recently. About halfway through the episode, a banner for "The Simpsons" was shown at the bottom of the screen, and Marge...

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Hating TiVo

So, apparently TiVo's terms of service state that they won't prorate your last bill if you decide to cancel the service. They make that clear on their web site.I canceled my service. It wasn't because...

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I have not learned to stop worring and love proprietary software

I took Krystina's Macbook Pro into the Apple store last week since it had been having several problems recently. After an hour of testing things to figure out precisely how to replicate the problems, I...

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HR 6304

The only thing that disappointed me more this week (in politics) than Obama's silence regarding H.R. 6304 was the support that he voiced for the bill after it passed in the House. Both the ACLU and...

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spooky image editing possibilities

As long as I'm here...A couple of months ago I was talking to a friend about an image editing application that could remove portions of an image, and then fill those areas back in using information...

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Article 17

I spent a few minutes during my lunch break to call Maria Cantwell (202) 224-3441 and Patty Murray (202) 224-2621 and Obama's presidential campaign to ask them to stop the effort to make telecoms...

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Article 16

Discussions of Supreme Court decisions often remind me of a quotation of Benjamin Franklin's, after giving up a vegetarian diet: "So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it...

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The U.S. Healthcare System Has Collapsed.

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Ubuntu

I've generally been dismissive of Ubuntu in the past, and thought that Shuttleworth had some funny ideas. For instance, he made a lot of tech headlines by suggesting that the major GNU/Linux...

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Article 12

Happy birthday, sweetestkiss!

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Article 11

Glenn Greenwald wrote today:Our basic Constitutional framework is being continuously assaulted while the lawless Surveillance State expands without limits, all justified by a condition of permanent...

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Fighting Sexual Harassment on the Subways

A few days ago, I was reading a blog entry on Salon.com. Kate Harding was criticizing NYC Transit for undertaking a campaign to combat sexual harassment on the subway by encouraging women to report...

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The Plan

The PlanIn the beginning was The Plan.And then came The Assumptions.And The Assumptions were without form.And The Plan was without substance.And a terrible darkness fell upon the face of the Workers....

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3ware controller migration

Yesterday I had to move drives from a very unreliable 8000 series 3Ware controller to a new 9000 series controller. My preference is to use software RAID whenever feasible because I know that disk...

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Article 7

crankygirlie posted a link to a special comment by Keith Olbermann, and I laughed my ass off. I haven't been paying attention to Keith much lately; I keep reading that he's been making an ass of...

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SSD

I finally got around to reading Anandtech's very long article about the current crop of SSD drives. I feel like it was pretty educational, which is good because it took a long time to digest.In its...

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Article 5

Can you even say "tea-bagging" on TV?

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