The blow to Chirac of his own countrymen shooting down the E.U. constitution is so much worse than anything we (the United States) could ever do to him, politically. Unfortunately for the French people it appears Chirac is everything we thought he was (and that’s really bad) as witnessed by the fact he is plotting [...]
An interesting read on a Detroit high school that converted its desktops to Linux and Open Office. Windows or Linux desktop advocates alike can gleen some interesting info from this “experiment”.
David Sheets comes to the conclusion that no web browser is safe. But while we’re all focused on web browser security bugs everyone is ignoring what is possibly the number one perveyor of internet worms, viruses and malware – HTML formatted email.
So much for McCain’s brokered deal. The next item of business is John Bolton who the Democrats are blocking the vote on. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. The rule that it takes 60 votes to cause a floor vote, after passing through and out of committee, is a 3 years old rule [...]
It is now long kitchen knives that “serve no good purpose” in the UK. The push to ban them next is underway. And they call us crack-pots when we say gun control isn’t about guns, it’s about control. Seems our friends in the UK and Down Under are continually proving that we are right.
There is no good substitute for common sense, except maybe for well documented company policy. Kind of reminds me of the phrase “I keep working to make things idiot proof and they keep making better idiots.”
McCain’s manuvering of the judicial nominations is a slap in the face to Republicans and a knife in the back of both President Bush and Frist. His back room dealings, and frankly Frist’s lack of leadership in even accepting this “agreement” takes away from the Senate Republicans the option of getting rid of the judicial [...]
Why wear the perverbial tin foil hat when you can wrap your house instead?
If an employee of Pepsi came to a board meeting and advocated that a new proposal would be too good for Pepsi or take to much of Coke’s sales someone at Pepsi would go for that employee’s head. If Pepsi was the United States Government that “someone” would be John Bolton and Coke would be [...]
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Pointman is a Hoosier who works in the IT industry, is an amateur photographer an avid motorcycle rider, shooter and firearms collector.
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The masthead graphic "Road to Oakalla" was taken during a motorcycle ride to the Oakalla covered bridge on 23 May, 2007 with a Canon A85 digital camera (F5.6, 1/125 sec exposure). Additional images from the visit are in the Oakalla bridge gallery.
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