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Phil Carter: Comparing the junior officer evals of Bush and Kerry

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I just noticed something odd: the book Programming Apache Axis, which Amazon.com says O’Reilly was to have published on March 1, isn’t mentioned anywhere on oreilly.com and is being reported as not yet released. (OK, I lied, the animal on the cover is mentioned on this page.) I’m hoping it’s a good book — I’ve [...]

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Remember the other day when I found an AP article that described the practice among radical Sunnis of taking offense when their homes are raided? In this letter home from the Green Zone, we learn of an even more inexplicable aspect of Iraqi culture:

It is ingrained in the Iraqi psyche to keep a close [...]

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Something to think about next time you head out to Wal-Mart for some household necessities. Really this is an article for people who think that organized labor is an outmoded concept.

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Anybody know how to write a regular expression that matches only if something isn’t between to other things? For example, I’d like one that matches “Dick Cheney is incompetent,” or “Dick Cheney seems incompetent,” but not “Dick Cheney is not incompetent.” In other words, match all sentences that begin with “Dick Cheney” and end [...]

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The new Mozilla Thunderbird logo is very, very nice.

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A java.net weblog entry today discusses RDD — Resume Driven Development. Don’t say you’ve never used this methodology …

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Dan Bricklin is investigating the options available to the small scale entrepreneur wanting a career in software development. I’ll be monitoring his process closely.

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I’ve been reading Iraqi weblogs lately, and I thought I’d give a brief survey of the ones I follow, in case anyone else is interested. They come from varying perspectives, and I find all of them fascinating. Some of them I find more depressing than others. One thing you’ll find is that the Iraqis [...]

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The ugly truth about information technology is that many IT projects are horrific failures, and it seems like the bigger a project is, the more likely it is to fail. Russell Beattie comments on a botched CRM upgrade that in essence killed AT&T Wireless. Why offshore? Because at least you’ll spend less [...]

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