Anyway, on Tuesday night, I parked in my usual spot and was having a cell phone conversation with my editor on this story, informing her of all the progress I had done so far. She seemed very excited about it and told me she couldn’t wait to read it.
I hung up the phone when I [...]
Greg Mankiw comments succinctly on what I see as the hypocrisy of most people who propose imposing minim wage restrictions on countries as a requirement of free trade (how free trade and restrictions go together is beyond me).
Robert Reich says that, as a requirement for free trade deals, we should tell developing countries to “set [...]
Hilarious - here comes the sexual harassment lawsuit.
Ron Paul lucidly speaking on the effect of paper currencies and the Federal Reserve’s interest manipulation on actual wealth.
“This deficit shows that much of our prosperity is based on borrowing rather than a true increase in production”. Couldn’t be stated any clearer.
From the New York Times:
European governments are preparing legislation to require companies to keep detailed data about people’s Internet and phone use that goes beyond what the countries will be required to do under a European Union directive.
In Germany, a proposal from the Ministry of Justice would essentially prohibit using false information to create an [...]
An official UK report has revealed that almost 439,000 e-mail addresses and telephones were tapped in the UK in just over a year. The number was released by the Interceptions of Communications Commissioner - I kid you not, they do have that office - so we can assume that if anything it might be [...]
Politics.
That’s the only possible reason why Children of Men, Alfonso Cuarón’s careful examination of where current politics are leading us, is being passed on for any relevant Academy awards while Babel, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s tepid brew of facile conflicts and contrived connections is receiving nominations left and right.
Its characters’ problems do not stem from the [...]
A new bill has been introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives calling for ISPs to record each and every step you take online, and punish by prison your internet provider if they dare not snoop on you.
A bill introduced to the US House of Representatives would require ISPs to record all users’ surfing activity, [...]
Some senior administration officials still relish the notion of a direct confrontation. One ambassador in Washington said he was taken aback when John Hannah, Vice President Cheney’s national security adviser, said during a recent meeting that the administration considers 2007 “the year of Iran” and indicated that a U.S. attack was [...]
I started testing out Parallels desktop on my MacBook Pro yesterday. The original plan was to use it to boot from my Boot Camp partition, so that I would be able to do Windows development without having to let go of all the other things I do in MacOS. That didn’t go to well. [...]