Monthly Archives: August 2007

Free Software and Social Justice

The Free Software Foundation has a petition on their website speaking out against Microsoft’s latest version of Windows, Vista. The objections are both environmental (the specs for Vista almost guarantee that you need to both dispose of your old PC … Continue reading

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Grills Gone Wild, Part 1

From the FedEx site, a message of great joy: “Left at front door. Signature Service not requested.” What’s up with the non-effort made yesterday? “Delivery exception?” WTF? They could at least call it what it is and put something like … Continue reading

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My Business Model Just Evaporated

The blog Pharyngula is a science blog focused on evolution and developmental biology written by a self-proclaimed “godless liberal”. He sounds like my kind of guy. He’s also He was being sued over a scathing review he wrote of Stuart … Continue reading

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More Tablet PC Fun

I’m starting to get the hang of the new tablet PC from the office.  for example, this blog entry is being written using the handwriting recognition box. Don’t get me wrong – using the keyboard is still the way to … Continue reading

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Who’s Up For A Road Trip on September 18?

I’ll be in Baton Rouge September 15-18 to give a seminar at LSU and go to the LSU-Middle Tennessee State game. I’m flying in and out of New Orleans because it saves you taxpayers a lot of money — see … Continue reading

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Concerts I’d Love To See

When I checked my Facebook page this morning I noticed that So had added Emmylou Harris’s “Red Dirt Girl” album to his favorites list. Since he was the source of all of those Warhammer 40K books Trip and I used … Continue reading

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Back in Maryland Again

I’m writing this blog entry from my couch using the Lab’s new Lenovo ThinkPad X61 tablet PC (link is to a user review and does not necessarily represent my views, etc.). It’s pretty darned cool, let me tell you, even … Continue reading

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