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Paul Boutin has started writing a new column for Slate. In his initial offering, he argues that geeks should stick to coding around laws rather than lobbying to change them. I’m not sure I agree. It’s unlikely that geeks can beat the power brokers at their own game, but making people aware of the [...]

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As we contemplate starting a whole new war in Iraq, it’s worthwhile to look back on last year’s war in Afghanistan. The United States (with NATO backing) appears to be trying to disengage, despite the fact that there’s already an immense power vacuum in Afghanistan and removing international peacekeepers would certainly lead to a complete [...]

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Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick has a love story praising the innovative stuff coming out of Microsoft. The stuff he talks about doesn’t sound particularly innovative to me, although the OneNote application for note taking does sound pretty neat. More importantly though, it’s stupid to talk about Microsoft’s innovation without talking about the innovation stifled [...]

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The St Louis Post-Dispatch has a long article today about the options for governing Iraq once we’ve invaded and kicked out Saddam Hussein. Basically, the article dismantles the plan put forward by the hawks in the Bush administration — that there’s a suitable Iraqi government waiting in exile for the day they can begin [...]

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The NYT Magazine has a long article this week on Scott Ritter, who doesn’t really seem to have a lot of credibility left.

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How come nobody ever told me that when I wrote invision I meant envision.

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It’s tough being the most powerful man in the world. You win some. You lose some.

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I have to believe that one of the scariest trends for anyone who programs is the migration of jobs to offshore development shops. Frankly, I don’t put stock in any numbers that I read in forecasts from Forrester or any other analyst, but the bottom line is that IT jobs moving overseas is the real [...]

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The new Homeland Security bill, which ballooned from about 40 to nearly 400 pages after it returned from the conference committee, has a number of time bombs in it that are threats to freedom and privacy. For example, the bill says that you can go to jail for disclosing anything that’s a threat to [...]

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My RSS feed has been broken for some period of time. It’s fixed. (Looks like I need to add it to my aggregator so I can make sure it’s not broken.)

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