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No Services Windows

posted Saturday, July 30, 2005 8:38 AM by mitchell
It's certainly one of my pet peeves...especially when I'm running something memory intensive. Here's some interesting reading on running windows with only two (that's 2!) of the default services. Read More
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Robot Nannies

posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 3:34 PM by mitchell
My favorite science fiction TV show, Andromeda, (created by Gene Roddenberry, you know, of Star Trek fame) features lots of cool stuff. One of the items that pervades the show, but you don't see, are nanobots. They are used for everything from repairing Read More
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Asteroid Headed for Earth (and it's not Hollywood's idea)

posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 7:32 AM by mitchell
Art predicts life? There's an asteroid headed for our lovely planet. Of course, it's not supposed to be a problem until 2036. They're talking about a reconnaissance mission and "nudging" the rock out of a dangerous orbit. Fascinating. Read More
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Definition: Hero

posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 7:13 AM by mitchell
Oliver North has the definition of the hero: "In this era of hyper-sensitivity and political-correctness, words no longer have meaning. Those who are good are too often portrayed as evil; indefensibly wicked acts are made less so by the way they are Read More
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Google Scholar

posted Monday, July 25, 2005 7:28 AM by mitchell
Interesting new Google functionality... Read More
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Targets

posted Saturday, July 23, 2005 7:25 AM by mitchell
VDH has yet another well reasoned article up at the National Review Online: And Then They Came After Us. Here's a money quote: Third, Islamicists are selective in their attacks and hatred. So far global jihad avoids two billion Indians and Chinese, Read More
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Fold 'n' Drop Window Interaction

posted Friday, July 22, 2005 7:54 AM by mitchell
Slashdot has a link to an article on an intriguing human interaction paradigm.    Read More
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Chocolate's Good for You?

posted Friday, July 22, 2005 7:50 AM by mitchell
My wife will be so pleased. Read More
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Truth Tour Indeed: What the MSM Isn't Telling You

posted Friday, July 22, 2005 7:43 AM by mitchell
Michael Graham has something interesting to say over at the NRO...here it is, important enough that I've reproduced it in it's entirety: I just spent a week in Iraq and Kuwait cultivating a skill that I, as a talk-show host, have found nearly impossible Read More
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Discipline: It's Survival of the Fittest

posted Friday, July 22, 2005 7:14 AM by mitchell
You can get the whole story on the hate mail and the response from Ma Deuce Gunner, but here's the relevant part of MDG's response: In it you ask: "So what is the point of excessive discipline and exercise?"Discipline:IED's.  It takes discipline Read More
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The Gipper, They Ain't

posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 8:02 AM by mitchell
Exactly. VDH (Victor Davis Hanson) said it much better than I ever have, but I've said it plenty myself: "...their celebrity is used only as a gimmick to give credence to silly rants that if voiced by anyone else would never reach the light of day." Read More
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Hollywood's Monopoly Stinks

posted Monday, July 18, 2005 9:15 AM by mitchell
Can't they just make movies? “David Koepp, who wrote the screenplay for War of the Worlds, says the Martian attackers in the film represent the American military, while the Americans being slaughtered at random represent Iraqi civilians.”   John Read More
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Secure RSS

posted Saturday, July 16, 2005 7:50 AM by mitchell
Very cool! But only if you are using FireFox. Read More
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Lessons of the Past

posted Saturday, July 16, 2005 7:33 AM by mitchell
VDH has his next article up, Our Wars Over the War, and it is an insightful commentary on the current state of Western ambivalence. Any student of history can recognize the allusions he makes to past events, and, once seen, should understand their portent. Read More
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Flip Wilson (Read Between the Lines)

posted Friday, July 15, 2005 7:59 AM by mitchell
Ann Coulter pretty much has the skinny on Wilson, Plame and Rove. And, without invective and vitriol. Read More
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rec.driving.alt.energy

posted Friday, July 15, 2005 7:25 AM by mitchell
My Hydrogen Fuel Cell car is only a few seconds (geologically speaking) away. Here's my car. :-) Read More
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Harry Potter Sneak Peek

posted Friday, July 15, 2005 7:18 AM by mitchell
I don't want to delve into the controversy surrounding this book, but this story of the boy who had it all and returned it because it was the "right thing to do" speaks volumes. This is a kid who will grow up knowing the difference between right and wrong. Read More
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Styled Form Controls

posted Friday, July 15, 2005 7:04 AM by mitchell
From GamingHeadlines.co.uk comes this primer on quite nicely Styled Controls. Read More
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.NET Delivery book review

posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:27 AM by mitchell
Excellent review of Expert .NET Delivery Using NAnt and CruiseControl.NET, by Marc Holmes on Slashdot. Looks like an excellent buy. Just before getting deployed I was exploring the need for creating an automated build, debug, deploy scenario, and this Read More
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SportsCenter Unwittingly Gets It Right

posted Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:35 AM by mitchell
Anybody else notice that the camera shots of Kenny Rogers at the All Star Game are a testament to irony? Due to folds in his jersey, instead of reading Rangers, the letters showing read "ANGER." Read More
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Bypass Compulsory Web Registration

posted Wednesday, July 13, 2005 8:33 AM by mitchell
Now why didn't I think of this? I've always consciously avoided sites requiring me to register...now, I don't have to worry about it. How can you not love a site "hosted by 'nearlyfreespeech.net'" and with a blurb stating "77677 sites liberated?" Read More
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New .mobi domain

posted Monday, July 11, 2005 8:04 PM by mitchell
(from Reuters): AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Consumers will soon be able to recognize Web sites specially designed for use by mobile phones by the new ".mobi" suffix, which will be introduced alongside the popular ".com" and other top-level domain names. Read More
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Arizona school will not use textbooks

posted Monday, July 11, 2005 7:54 PM by mitchell
Darn! I was born 20 years too early! Read More
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Beam Me Up Scotty, Part 2

posted Monday, July 11, 2005 11:04 AM by mitchell
And I thought I was kidding when I used that title before. Apparently, not: Teleporting a person would require a machine that isolates, appraises, and keeps track of over a trillion trillion atoms that constitute the human body, then sends that data Read More
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(No) Man is an Island

posted Monday, July 11, 2005 7:03 AM by mitchell
For all of you who have ever dreamed of owning your own island and creating your own nation, there is hope. (Donne's Meditation) Read More
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Beam Me Up, Scotty

posted Sunday, July 10, 2005 6:59 AM by mitchell
A few years and NASA will deliver warp drive from it's antimatter rocket research. Of course, you should hang on to your wallet: "Of course, making the antimatter can be expensive." Read More
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Same Old, Same Old...

posted Saturday, July 09, 2005 7:45 AM by mitchell
Victor Davis Hanson posted his latest article. Certainly worth a read. Here's the closer: It is our task, each of us according to our station, to speak the truth to all these falsehoods, and remember that we did not inherit a wonderful civilization Read More
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Ollie Revises Williams

posted Friday, July 08, 2005 9:38 AM by mitchell
Ollie wins with a KO in Round 1: How can Williams possibly compare these men to the vicious, amoral, barbaric terrorists we deal with: Williams doesn't specify, but "the first several U.S. Presidents" must include George Washington, John Read More
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The Thin Red Line

posted Friday, July 08, 2005 7:33 AM by mitchell
I'm fairly certain, being an avid student of military history, that the recent attacks against Britain are nothing short of brainless on the part of the terrorists. The British are not the kind to just fall over and play dead. Their history is replete Read More
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Programming: Geek Art or Science?

posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 7:53 AM by mitchell
An interesting blurb on Slashdot on whether or not programming is art of science (includes link to the article). Here's the most interesting quote: "...art is craft plus a special degree of inspiration." If that doesn't explain programming, I'm not Read More
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Litigation Reaches Astronomic Proportions

posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 7:47 AM by mitchell
On the tail of my recent post regarding NASA's crashing of a probe into a comet comes this story of a Russian woman's lawsuit: NASA's mission that sent a space probe smashing into a comet raised more than cosmic dust - it also brought a lawsuit Read More
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Immortal Words

posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 7:08 AM by mitchell
I thought that, in the spirit of the days recently past, I'd share these immortal words with my small group: It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale Read More
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NASA Fireworks Show

posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:53 AM by mitchell
The title of the article sounds suspicious, NASA Probe Successfully Collides with Comet, and, admittedly, it threw me for a loop. I suppose it did it's job though since I went on to the read it! Why anyone would deliberately want to crash into a comet, Read More
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If I Only Had A Brain

posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:17 AM by mitchell
A blurb on Slashdot alerted me to this: The Ray Kurzweil Reader is a collection of essays by Ray Kurzweil on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, radical life extension, conscious machines, the promise and peril of technology, and other aspects Read More
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Hanson: American Zen

posted Sunday, July 03, 2005 7:25 AM by mitchell
Victor Davis Hanson has another excellent article ready for your perusal at the National Review Online. He certainly seems to have a way with putting things in perspective. Read More
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Chairman Ann Shoots Straight

posted Saturday, July 02, 2005 3:34 PM by mitchell
Ann Coulter has an excellent commentary on the recent SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) ruling regarding the display of the Ten Commandments. When will the court realize that the aggressive promotion of a god-less society is tantamount to professing Read More
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The Borderless Empire of Allah

posted Saturday, July 02, 2005 11:20 AM by mitchell
Interesting and informative article at Pardon My English. Read More
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