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I like owning my own domain name. I also like hosting my stuff on an always-on, always-available, remotely-accessed server. In particular, I like having a server that I can write custom code for and post it and test it. For this reason, I am keeping...
So, I have been thinking lately about trying to help people, particularly in relation to the current proposals for an economic stimulus package. I believe that the people in our government are expressing true concern about individuals in our society...
I've been thinking lately about all the hoopla about cheaper medications in Canada (I know: I'm a little late on this, but I still think I have an interesting point to make). Canada forced drug companies to sell their drugs at certain, low rates to...
I woke up this morning with a craving for a specific song by the group Carbon Leaf. I discovered this band when the song "Life Less Ordinary" from their Album "Indian Summer" came with an MP3 player that I bought. I liked the song, and ultimately bought...
I was listening to the December 1st broadcast of the Michael Medved Show, and the topic of nationalism came up. This was in relation to the recent tragic bombings in Mumbai. Specifically, nationalism is necessary to rally people for a collective cause....
I read a great book a few years ago called The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. This book talks about how companies can build up their teams through showing the 5 big things that cause teams to work less effectively. I don't remember 4 of the dysfunctions...
I've been getting a lot of material lately from various Democrats in Utah. One thing I notice is how conservative Utah Democrats are. This is a good thing. But it also means that the differences between Republicans and Democrats in Utah are even more...
One of the problems that I am seeing more frequently than ever in Democratic politics is a hidden meanness. I was finally able to put a name on it when I got a robo-call from Claralyn Hill. She's a Democrat running for State Representative here in Utah....
If carbon emissions are really hurting the environment, then trees are cleaning up the environment, and just writing a book can help the environment. So can building houses and furniture.
Trees breath in carbon dioxide and sunlight and breath out...
McCain regularly talks about ear-marks, and how he wants to stop them. Barack keeps saying that the waste that they represent is worth ignoring. Now, what does this have to do with Rudy Giuliani? Reducing ear-marks is precisely the way to drastically...
A year or two I got to thinking about how I negotiate my way around complete strangers
in the store. I tend to use the phrase "sorry" a lot as I stop my cart,
try and get around people, etc. When other people say "sorry",...
I was listening to Michael Medved recently, and he made what seemed to be an off-hand remark about our economic crisis: The problem is Government Spending, not sub-prime loans. Basically, because the government is borrowing money, it is harder for the...
I regularly hear about Barack Obama's plan to help our energy crisis, and it is basically to reduce consumption. This sounds good, because if we use less, the resulting higher supply will cause prices to go down, and we will produce less greenhouse...
When we create an enemy out of someone, we usually become their enemy as well. Some would say this applies to the war on terror, which it does: The terrorists made an enemy out of us, so we made an enemy out of them. But this is not the point of this...
So, I downloaded the newest CTP (Community Technology Preview) of Windows Vista. My apartment complex has such a narrow pipe to the Internet, it took forever (literally, several days at a high of about 20K/sec, and lows of 5 K/sec or less). But I wanted...
Intel made a 64 bit processor a few years ago (the Itanium), but it was
nearly incompatible with 32 bit code. It would emulate a 32 bit Pentium
processor (probably using the Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer
[HAL]), so you could run applications written...
I have been having a lot of fun just installing Windows Vista Beta 1, and wanted to document all the hassle involved.
Preparing For the Installation
These are my initial machine specs
AMD64 3000+ processor
160 GB SATA hard drive on a RAID controller....