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So for the past couple of days, I’ve been thinking about the range of possibilities for Republicans who are dissatisfied with President Bush by trying to put myself in their shoes. It’s obvious to me that President Bush has done a horrible job, and I think that many Republicans have their doubts about him as [...]

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Courtesy of Jeanne d’Arc, something to think about:

The second thing that bothered me, even though it was coming from people who felt the power of that call to progressive values and didn’t try to spin it away, was the emphasis on Obama as a “star.” Folks, this isn’t American Idol. I do not want to [...]

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So one of my coworkers asked me if I had an example Struts application he could look at so he could get a feel for Struts. He’s an experienced Java developer, but doesn’t seem to have had much experience with J2EE. I had the Struts source on my hard drive, so I emailed him a [...]

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Novelist Jane Smiley has had several letters published in the New York times over the past few years, and she confesses to writing the paper every day. Out of the hundreds she must have sent, nine have been published. Clearly she needs a weblog, where you can blather every day and get published every time.

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Scott Rosenberg makes a good and obvious point about software today — it decays. In response to an economic argument that software does not decay in the same way that manufactured goods do, he points out that installations of software do become more and more iffy over time. Beyond that, hardware marches on, as does [...]

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Andrew Brown: Where the money went. A must read.

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So today I was surprised to see Google return a “service not available” error when I attempted a search. I was so surprised, in fact, that I wanted to take a screen shot of it. I didn’t have my favorite free screen shot tool installed on my computer at work, and I didn’t remember how [...]

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You know you’ve really arrived in the software industry when the trade mags think it’s important that you’ve changed jobs.

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One of the picodebates in the world of weblog syndication is whether aggregators belong in your email client (like NewsGator) or in your browser (like the aggregator that’s going to be built into Safari). The Mozilla group seems to be voting for email, given that Thunderbird is going to include an RSS aggregator in the [...]

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Think Mozilla isn’t gaining traction? Check out this anecdote.

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