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John Udell has the king of all posts on the Dan Geer dust up, the present monoculture in desktop computing, and related matters.

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I honestly have no idea whether George W Bush is going to be elected to another term, but I have some extremely anecdotal evidence that tells me that he may not. You may or may not know that I grew up in a small, ordinary town in Texas. I’ve been working on my parents for [...]

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Christopher Hitchens is well known for his iconoclastic obituaries of popular public figures, so when I clicked on the link to his obituary of Edward Said, I expected something the lines of his demolitions of Mother Theresa or Princess Diana. Instead, I read something quite different.

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Following up on a link from yesterday, Dan Geer says he was forced out as CTO of @Stake for signing onto the report critical of Microsoft that I mentioned.

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Remember when I said you ought to keep an eye on a Google News search for Valerie Plame’s name? Looks like that search is about to start yielding new results.

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The Texas government, in its infinite Republican wisdom, has decided to decentralize its system for handling surplus textbooks. Instead of returning them to the state education agency and letting it distribute them, they’re going to implement a computer system that will let schools publish their surplus numbers and let other schools arrange with them to [...]

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Morgan Stanley’s Stephen Roach has a report on the fallout of China being falsely blamed for the decline in employment in the American manufacturing sector — a massive tariff. Never mind the recent articles that seem to prove conclusively that increased productivity is responsible for the manufacturing sector shedding employees, blaming China is a lot [...]

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The Nokia 7600 looks like the coolest mobile phone ever, and of course we won’t be getting it in the United States anytime soon.

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Yahoo Messenger has shut out Trillian. I had read not long ago that this was going to happen, and I learned first hand this morning that Trillian had finally been given the boot. The only reason I use a client like Trillian is that the greedy scumbags in the IM world refuse to pursue [...]

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The Slacktivist has a great post contrasting the faith of Johnny Cash with that of George W Bush, in response to a Washington Times column that just doesn’t get it at all.

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