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Morning reading
Check out Steve Chapman on terrorism and Arnold Kling on McMedicine.
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Obama gets interesting
Firstly he has stopped wearing American Flag pins. While to some degree the president serves a double role as chief executive and president of the fan club I think this is a good thing. There’s nothing more hollow than a red Aids ribbon or the yellow “Live Strong” wristbands. It’s good to have someone running that doesn’t find meaning in 17 pieces of flair. That doesn’t mean his ideas are any good, but there’s more to loving America than wrapping oneself in internal marketing.
Secondly he apparently has a serious person as his chief economic adviser. All in all a good sign for him. Not that I’ll be voting for him, but he’s at least showing signs of being interesting, which he hasn’t up to now.
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The move is complete
I’ve even got the packing about 3/4 of the way done. Photos of the new place to come soon. The new place is wonderful.
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This is funny
I forget how I came across this, but check out Why Marrying For Money is Never a Good Idea.
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The house is mine
The closing went as planned. Ormewood Park here I come!
It recently made Creative Loafing’s Best of Atlanta as the up and coming neighborhood. More details and pictures to come.
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Throw your dreadles in the air
Somebody warm up the defibrillator, this is going to kill several of you. It’s reasonably safe for work (due to language)
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Quick link roundup
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Of particular annoyance
So I call T-Mobile to see how to use my Blackberry as an internet connection since I’ll be without the cable for a couple days. The first tech I talk to was nice. She calls me on my land line so we can continue setting everything up.
All is good so far. She then transfers me to their special Vista tech support department. While I’m waiting for Vista support to pick up, I hear a horribly loud screeching sound on the other end and I’m disconnected. T-Mobile is a phone company mind you.
I call back, speak to a tech, who tells me I have to add a $19.99 package to my plan. The first tech made no mention of such a thing.
I’m calling back and hopefully I can bypass this nonsense.
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A weird story
Combining characters from The Departed, Mississippi Burning and Donnie Brasco. In real life no less.
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Tuesday night rapid fire
- Robert Kaplan on private military contractors
- John Robb on private military contractors – one thing he doesn’t mention (and I don’t think he has mentioned it before) is that there could be many, many problems with highly trained combat forces under no particular command, they would make quiet a crime crew. It’s unlikely with the current stock of PMCs, but it might be with the next generation.
- Solar Power is becoming a vested interest
- For some reason validator callout extenders won’t work with a custom validator with the standard Visual Studio code, but it works with this code.
- Nazi War Criminal was found in Metro Atlanta. Why must events like these be the only time Atlanta makes national news?
- Building a tree fort as an exercise in project management
- DNI on leaving Iraq
- A client of mine was in the AJC today, I did the Atlanta Arrangements site late last year.
- Secret Geek has a nice post on the Principles of Scale
- Tyler Cowen on income inequality. I wonder if anyone is actually worried about this. No one seems to be, but everyone thinks everyone else is scared stiff. One thing to bear in mind is that the bottom is fixed at zero