Archive for January, 2005

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20050131-1359

Monday, January 31st, 2005

This BBC report just made my day. Bill Gates is “’struggling to concentrate’, ‘not a natural leader’, ’struggling to keep control of a confusing world’ and ‘an unstable man who is feeling under enormous pressure.’”

20050131-1232

Monday, January 31st, 2005

Given the murder of that family in New England, this sort of report is disturbing.

Any number of places are reporting that SBC is planning on buying AT&T. Makes me feel rather sad. AT&T has done good things and bad things like any other corporation, but it really is, as the NYTimes states, an icon that is now [...]

20050131-1137

Monday, January 31st, 2005

Oliver North quoted an Iraqi governor who in just a couple sentences captured the transforming power that women hold: “Women voting will change everything. No woman who carries a child for nine months wants that child to grow up to be a suicide terrorist. They want the politicians to give their children something to live for, not die for — [...]

20050131-1053

Monday, January 31st, 2005

In Germany prostitution is legal. Not only legal, it is a “normal,” tax paying industry which has access to official databases of job seekers. Yes, the scum who run such things can call you up if they like the sound of your resume and try to get you to work for them. Now Germany is also in [...]

20050131-0745

Monday, January 31st, 2005

William brought this article to my attention. I’d heard about this guy’s research from other places, and it really doesn’t surprise me. Like most (good) work from an economist, this conforms to the “it makes sense once you say it” rule. This article has more detail than the one I had seen, and I find the fact [...]

20050130-1150

Sunday, January 30th, 2005

I hate shoveling ice. It is far too heavy.

20050129-1910

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

So I moved Mom over to the new post page I wrote yesterday. Seems to work well. Turning off fancy quotes was fairly trivial, only took me about 5 minutes to find it. I think the complaints about it I saw online (none of which told me where to look) where just MSWord users griping.

PVI wrestled Good [...]

20050128-1741

Friday, January 28th, 2005

So I realized today why I’m having trouble with single and double quotes for my mom’s poems. WordPerfect, like MSWord, isn’t using real quotes. It is using “Fancy” or “Curly” quotes. Now I just need to learn how to turn that off. :-)

Once I have that working, I should be able to trust my code to create [...]

20050128-1534

Friday, January 28th, 2005

Just a short note, I just read the latest installment of Exercise Your Wonder by Dr. Howard Glicksman over at Access Research Network, a nice repository of some Intelligent Design papers, books, and other resources. I highly recommend Dr. Glicksman’s articles for anyone who actually wants to think about exactly what materialistic science claims has evolved. Dr. Glicksman presents a [...]

20050128-1506

Friday, January 28th, 2005

news

Lest you thought otherwise, the end of the two cases in Florida do not signal the end of th attacks on marriage. Findlaw reports on some of the continuing battles here. What a messed up world we live in when we have to worry about “sex change operations” and their effect on the validity of a marriage. Some states [...]

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