Sunday, March 13, 2005

China will pay - the bennies of empire

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Recently I predicted (hey, I'm not alone!) that our party-days are numbered, that foreigners won't continue to fund our profligate w...

An intelligent discussion of the Italian hostage (Sgrena) shooting

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The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: Manning the Barricades The author of this Op-Ed piece is a former Marine captain...
Saturday, March 12, 2005

David Brin has a blog

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Contrary Brin David is one of the smartest and most interesting thinkers I know of. I was surprised to see he has a blog. I'll have ...

PLATO Notes, Microsoft Groove, and the curious history of software

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This is a bit more software-centric than my usual 'Notes' postings, but it's really not about a particular technical issues, rat...

What's worse than no privacy? Lies.

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A while back I posted on the (gross) errors that my shadow medical profile is likely accumulating thanks to a persistent billing error. I t...

Why going open source is not a trivial thing

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Mitch Kapor's Weblog: Should Groove Have Gone Open Source? If you work with software this is a quite important statement. Read it ca...

The Lefkow murders, mental illness, and jumping to conclusions

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ABC News: Man Claims to Have Slain Judge's Family Judge Lefkow's husband and mother were murdered by a mentally ill man unrelated to...

GOP theology: a return to basics

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Salon.com | The gospel of the rich and powerful Joe Conason complains about the Bush agenda. I do too, but there's not much new to ...

Faughnan's Notes needs a new home - Blogger doom

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Faughnan's Notes I've given up on Google's Blogger/Blogspot. They've had periods of reliability over the past four month...
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Patrick Leahy and privacy

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Senator predicts 'overdue' changes to privacy | CNET News.com WASHINGTON--Recent data mishaps at ChoicePoint and Reed Elsevier Group...
Friday, March 11, 2005

Remember Argentina: The US trade gap and the charity of strangers

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BBC NEWS | Business | US trade gap expands to $58.4bn ...The trade deficit makes up much of the red ink in the US's current account [de...

Phil Bradley's posts on search and net services: March 7-11

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Phil Bradley's Blog: March 7-11 Phil is a librarian, with a special interest in net search and design. I always enjoy following his ...

Blogger outage

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Faughnan's Tech: Blogger was a mess today! Blogger/blogspot has been out of order for at least the past day or so. I don't know ...
Thursday, March 10, 2005

The disadvantage of "free": no threats!

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Faughnan's Tech: Blogger was a mess today! A real mess. Sadly, Blogger is a "free" Google property. I can't threaten t...

Plagiocephaly and the law of unintended consequences

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Baby's First Helmet (washingtonpost.com) This is an intelligent and accessible discussion of plagiocephaly, aka 'funny looking baby ...