Archive for October, 2004

If you can’t vote

by @ Thursday, October 28th, 2004. Filed under political perspective

Here (sorry-pdf) is a card with instruction on what to do if you have problem or are turned away while trying to vote. I doubt that I’d have a problem. From the amount of political physical spam-mail I get (I think the NRA sold my name to the Republicans and the ACLU sold my name [...]

Where’s my superbroadband?

by @ Thursday, October 28th, 2004. Filed under Technology

This is pretty obvious – if you have only one choice in high speed internet, how can competition happen? Remember that much of the telephone physical infrastructure was paid for by the us government. Why should it become the exclusive right of one telecom? In the case of cable, they should only have to share [...]

An Internet .TLD lesson…

by @ Wednesday, October 27th, 2004. Filed under Technology

What’s the difference between .COM and .ORG? ” From: Donald Povia [dpovia@georgewbush.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:26 PM To: Thomas Roberts; ‘Jon Seaton’; Ryan Krabill; Jennifer Williams Subject: i think She and I would look good together… Don Povia Washington State Field Representative Bush-Cheney ’04, Inc. dpovia@georgewbush.com Office: 866.660.BUSH Direct: 425.688.0148 Cell: 425.736.9186 Fax: [...]

Cisco’s stupid website

by @ Tuesday, October 26th, 2004. Filed under Uncategorized

Your website sucks. It’s really difficult to find anything. It looks ugly. It’s crowded. And the authentication system – it sucks. I get one chance to try my password and if that doesn’t work, I have to close all instances of my browser to try again. To refresh my password, I have to send an [...]

Routing for kids

by @ Monday, October 25th, 2004. Filed under Technology

Have you seen Peter Packet yet?

Behind the scenes at Google

by @ Monday, October 25th, 2004. Filed under Technology

From the University of Washington’s CSE Colloquium – it’s a Windows Media presentation of Behind the scenes at Google.

For anybody who’s interested

by @ Monday, October 25th, 2004. Filed under Misc

I accepted the product manager position at 11:00 today. Whenever my current group lets me leave (3-6 weeks I’m guessing) I’ll be a Senior Product Development Manager – Security Products. Whatever that means.

internal perspective

by @ Monday, October 25th, 2004. Filed under political perspective

Democracy, n.: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic… negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, [...]

old ladies and their cats

by @ Monday, October 25th, 2004. Filed under Humor

An eighty-year-old woman is rocking away the afternoon on her porch when she sees an old, tarnished lamp sitting near the steps. She picks it up, rubs it gently, and lo and behold a genie appears! The genie tells the woman the he will grant her any three wishes her heart desires. After a bit [...]

Comment on Zinger’s Writing

by @ Saturday, October 23rd, 2004. Filed under the spews of Evil Bastard

Either my standards have dropped significantly or Zinger’s writing is approaching professional quality. So, what gives? Up until this year Dr. Webdonkey’s news submissions showed a flagrant disregard of any attempts at editing and his grammatical style erred on the side of the unpublishable. Recently, though, Zingro puts Herr Palahniuk to shame in style, composition, [...]

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