- “Making Work Pay Tax Credit”? If the government REALLY wanted to make work pay, they’d eliminate the income tax. #
- I love Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters comls. So far, they’ve shopped in Fry’s Electronics & Best Buy. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/choosepc/ #
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“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”
—Warren Buffett
Tags: dollars, inspiration
- Dell Latitude 2100: Netbook for Education with a Touch screen. Sliding the netbooks into a rack is a great idea. http://tinyurl.com/kj9vlg #
- Interview with Chris Costello, creator of the Papyrus font – http://bit.ly/nn1rv #
- The Onion video: Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire – http://preview.tinyurl.com/pq62xd #
- Reading “Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives” by Joel Spolsky – http://bit.ly/q087E #
Last night I had a fairly involved dream. It felt real. I thought it was real, right up through the moment I awoke. Here’s what I remember of it.
Tags: cameras, Digital SLR, dreams, DSLR, retro
- UPS (United Parcel Service) is the world’s largest package delivery company. It was founded in 1907 by a 19-year-old and an 18-year-old. #
- “The most important thing you learn in college is how to learn on your own.” – Steve Yegge, Practicing Programming http://bit.ly/MYL7q #
- “The saying ‘practice makes perfect’ is inaccurate, as any music teacher will happily tell you. Perfect practice makes perfect.” #
- Laptops bring lessons, maybe even peace – I participated in the first OLPC G1G1 program. It was the first netbook. http://bit.ly/UBc0L #
- Microsoft has its good points, but the worst of Microsoft can be stated with two letters: IE. Please switch to Firefox, Chrome, or Safari. #
- Microsoft would be the world’s best company if they made Internet Explorer open source & included Firefox with Windows. Not going to happen. #
I had this problem, and it took me an unusually long time to fix. I believe the cause is that the network we use here at home changed settings. We changed from WPA to WEP, or something like that. So even though I modified the settings in the Network Preferences Pane to WEP, it still didn’t work. AirPort would say it had no IP address, or a Self-Assigned IP address. And I had no internet connectivity.
- In vim, all I know are the basics, like :wq. “How I Learned to Stop Killing Myself and Learn Vim” http://bit.ly/uBilP #
- “We learned nothing from Vietnam coverage. The media led us right into the 2003 Iraq War.” Panel on the role of media: http://bit.ly/11ozoJ #
