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Wasting Money on Impeachment in the Eleventh Hour

dveaner @ July 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet

At the beginning of this month I got a press release from ‘Peace Now Ithaca’ that invited people to come downtown for a rally with street puppets and balloons to celebrate US Congressman Maurice Hinchey co-sponsoring to the House bill bringing 35 articles of impeachment against George Bush.  Congress voted 251 to 166 to refer [...]

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Annoying Windows

dveaner @ July 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet

According to a report in ZDNet Microsoft designed User Account Control (UAC) in the Vista version of windows to deliberately annoy users.  “The reason we put UAC into the (Vista) platform was to annoy users–I’m serious,” Cross is reported as saying last April at the annual RSA security conference in San Francisco. “Most users had [...]

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I Hate (Commercial) Flying

admin @ July 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet

I like iPods.  They are expensive, but you know what you are getting.  They are simple to use and the iTunes interface is a seamless way to get media onto the device.  You don’t have to buy music from iTunes, but if you want to it is well priced, offers instant gratification, and is very [...]

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