October 20, 2009
* Not all filetypes can be tagged. Microsoft Office documents and JPG images can be tagged in Vista, but RTF (Rich Text), PNG and my beloved .txt files cannot be tagged. This limitation, in a word, blows. But let’s move on.
This is friggin’ retarded. Why even bother adding tagging if you can’t tag most of your files? IDIOCY.
September 8, 2009
there is no place in the Constitution,” he said, “that talks about you ought to have the right to get a telephone, but we have made those choices as a country over the years.” - this is incorrect; the 9th and 10th Amendments give citizens the right to own telephones, as well as a broad interpretation of the 1st (free speech and free assembly).
September 4, 2009
There’s also a pretty basic game theory element to this. War seems like an environment wherein the opposing forces will not cooperate under any circumstances, but in reality is akin to an iterated prisoners’ dilemma. There are rules to war…Defecting from this invites retaliation…Successful players are going to be able to respond to defection gracefully and intelligently- with enough retaliation to ensure that defection is an undesirable strategy, but with enough moderation that it does not, itself, invite retaliation.
September 1, 2009
My font - my real handwriting isn’t quite this bad, but it’s a near thing.

My font - my real handwriting isn’t quite this bad, but it’s a near thing.

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica - Sweet mother of crap, this is awesome. AWESOME.
August 22, 2009
August 21, 2009
August 20, 2009

Is there a laptop in the house?

evangotlib:

So a lot of folks were disturbed by my post last night about the pilot using my laptop and wi-fi card to find a new route.  I would have explained last night, but we didn’t get to Dallas until after 1am and I went right to sleep.

There were two or three different lines of storms in the west and south that were effecting all Newark outbound air traffic.  There is no mechanism on a 737-500 to look at weather.  The radar they have only works in flight, and even then it can’t show what’s happening outside of about 50 miles.  …

August 19, 2009