There is a large corporate IT department with zero network downtime. Their upgrades happen on schedule, and their security is always up to date. Every member of the department gives the credit completely to their strict adherence to a religious rite traditional in the department ( Read more... )

75% Bill Richardson
70% Chris Dodd
65% Barack Obama
65% Mike Gravel
63% John Edwards
61% Hillary Clinton
58% Joe Biden
58% Dennis Kucinich
44% Rudy Giuliani
44% John McCain
43% Ron Paul
42% Mitt Romney
41% Mike Huckabee
40% Tom Tancredo
40% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Not a bad quiz viked from kalwein Didn't turn out quite as I

Sometimes I get pretty depressed (frequently right after reading a newspaper or following the news on the net) and it sometimes affects my productivity at work. But thanks to advances in modern medicine this sort of problem may soon be solved for many of us. Of course, "I'll make a monkey out of you" may be more a threat than a promise by then. ( Read more... )

My family has been in this country for rather a while. I had 17 ancestors in the American Revolutionary War. While American history has never been my preferred area of research, I've done a certain amount of reading in the area. And it wasn't fun while it was going on. Definitely something you don't start on a whim, or because of momentary ( Read more... )

Ran into a long, but IMHO very worth reading, blog article here Hostile Takeover laying out - in more detail and with more references than I would get around to - some of the root causes and effects of too long a "probusiness" mindset ( Read more... )

This is sort of a duplicate post, since sombrereptiles found and posted it originally.

Finding yourself on youtube.Over the years I've done a lot of demos, and had my picture taken quite frequently by members of the audience. But aside from the occasional press footage, I always assumed they would sit in a scrapbook somewhere under "what I did ( Read more... )

Found this while going through old bookmarks. It has to be one of the nicest stress-relievers on the web, guaranteed to bring cheer to Americans who love what their country is supposed to stand for, and happily it is increasingly a real-world simulation.http://www.yeeguy.com/freefall/

WIntertime - it's too cold to do anything anyway (not as true as it used to be) and it's easy to get out of shape. Given that I spend 3 hours plus a day commuting, I have limited time for extracurricular activities. Some aspects of my current job are social - so I ended up at around 20 "office parties" in December. Result: net gain of around 20 ( Read more... )

This story about the US Gov planting propaganda stories in Iraqi papers should be taken as just another example of our beloved current administration giving the Iraqis all the benefits of their interpretation of Democracy that we enjoy at home.

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