What bothers me is not that “clean-room” procedures will actually be followed, since they are claimed. What bothers me is the justification for “early access” to begin with: “For years, journalists participating in the lockups have shown up at DOL … Read More
Crap like this is why we have a Tea Party. We deserve a Tea Party Candidate. Read More
This blog seems to be up and running again! Links are working! Everything is working. One of the valuable things I am taking from ITIL training is the confidence to STOP tinkering with things. I have developed a workaround for … Read More
Get yourself a cup of coffee. The time has come to speak of LGF. For those who do not know, Little Green Footballs (LGF) is a forum blog run by Charles Johnson, and which was influential and well-respected in its … Read More
Somebody has taken blog comment spam to the next level. Somehow, this comment made it past Akismet (the Cloverfield monster of blog spam defenders): Whenever I read one of your posts, my balls get even bigger. Naturally, the comment was … Read More
I want a “top posts” plug-in to work. I have hacked some of the back-end of this thing rather crudely, so I am fairly confident that I have broken a couple of things. That’s right — I used protomatter in … Read More
I am disappointed in some of the comments I see about Huma Abedin, wife of disgraced classless jerk Anthony Weiner. Anthony Weiner mixed up his personal and professional lives, and did so in a really offensive way. The original actions … Read More
There’s a blog, Political Calculations, which is immensely satisfying to a highly political data junkie such as myself. So it’s a good blog, but the proprietor really hoses his interpretation of this graph: [government spending] has literally “gone vertical” during … Read More
Well, Apple, I certainly hope that the purpose of this patent is to lock away the technology. Hint, hint. A patent application filed by Apple, and obtained by the Times, reveals how the software would work. If a person were … Read More
Infamous columnist Robert Fisk has an interesting piece on the uselessness of Obama: Amid all these vast and epic events – Yemen itself may yet prove to be the biggest bloodbath of all, while the number of Syria’s “martyrs” have … Read More