Archive for September, 2005

Tough Time for Military Recruiters

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

3 Free songs from iTunes if you agree to be contacted by an Army National Guard Recruiter.
This ad has been seen making the rounds on the Internet.

A full size – readable screen shot is also available.
Not only is this ad in bad taste . . . the ad is asking potential recruits to enter their [...]

Ok, in the event that you were wondering . . .

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

I don’t normally do this, but . . .

You are a Social Liberal (78% permissive) and an… Economic Conservative (60% permissive) You are best described as a:
Democrat

Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid

It’s interesting, as I don’t subscribe to [...]

.MAC Upgrade

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

It appears by the message I received upon logging in this morning that Apple has finally caught up with the times and has upgraded .MAC users’ iDisk to half a Gigabyte. It’s about time.
As of this morning, I’ve seen nothing on the Apple .MAC site talking about this upgrade.
What’s next? Will they make [...]

Google Responds

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

The fine folks over at the Google Blog have responded to questions and complaints of political slant regarding the top Google results for the “failure” and “miserable failure” search keywords.
It’s interesting to note how the page ranking works in this process; but interestingly, the ranking of “failure” and “miserable failure” has been attributed to a [...]

Alive . . .

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Or something like it. Been busy with a high profile project at work and some major construction projects at home. More on that latter, for now my pillow is calling.

Look to the Europeans for Inspiration

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

Every time I think the US Government and large companies are trying to take another miles worth of personal freedoms and privacy, the Europeans remind me just how good we still have it:
According to this Yahoo News Article, the Dutch are assembling a database to open “Electronic Files” on all citizens upon birth “as a [...]


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