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As I have aged, I have found that my grasp of the English language has become more and more limited. It has not become limited through some inability to learn, nor has it reduced due to the continual process of age and memory loss. Nay, it is as if my typing hands are […]

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Like peasants of old, scratching at the muck, discussing who voted for the King of England (insert Monty Python quote here), our faithless users wander about the digital landscape wondering why they don’t have quantum computers that can’t do their job for them without producing some sort of error and making them coffee all at […]

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I am not a big fan of westerns, per se. As a kid, I enjoyed playing cowboys and indians as much as the next white bread kid on the block, but as an adult (I spit a little whenever I say that dirty word), the whole cowboy schtick feels way overdone in the realm […]

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Just because an error is reproducible on a system, that does not necessarily mean it is the fault of the system. Users have undeniable talent at unintentionally using a system contrary to the developer’s intent. And somehow that is the developer’s fault.
95% of all problems are solved with a reboot. Even if […]

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My wife wakes up not feeling too well. We had a small pregnancy scare a couple weeks ago, so anything “not normal” tends to make us both freak out a little. She toughed it out like the soldier she is and I think all is well.
But then my daughter wakes up screaming. […]

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Big Media sucks.
Chicken and the egg, I guess.
Media doesn’t report on Ron Paul because no one hears about him, no one hears about him because the media is not reporting on him.

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From here:
Life at the Media Lab has reminded me once again that technology is most exciting when it upsets the status quo. Big-screen TVs and downloadable episodes of Late Night with Conan O’Brien are merely more attempts to control the means of distribution, something GE has been doing since the invention of the light bulb. […]

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