http://www.jawfish.net/wp "We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:48:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The first part of this post back in September lamented that a friend, who is a level-headed sort of fellow, will still vote Republican even though he highly disapproves of the Iraq Mess and most of the other Bush Administration boondoggles, fiascoes, and self-imposed disasters. The disconnect between his policy ... http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/184 Not Just Another Bash-Microsoft Session Nice things will be said about Microsoft. (afterthought: today it was announced that Microsoft has started funding Apache, see end of this article for more) I ran across this MS research project page recently when I googled "intelligent adaptive interface." I was looking to see if anyone ... http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/182 All you biker boys and girls who haul your bikes on trailers or pickups have a set of ratchet or cam-lock nylon webbing straps to hold them down. They work pretty well inside a closed trailer or in the back of a pickup, but on an open trailer like mine ... http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/186 In Part 1 I showed some nice new motorcycle wheel chocks called Bike Shoes, installed on my trailer. They eliminated the problems with using tie-downs on the front of the bike. No more compressed suspension, loose ties, and jammed ratchets. And they make loading and un-loading he bikes much quicker ... http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/187 Update: I test drove a Smart coupe today on my daily driving loop. It is plenty fast on the freeway and merging, and did well in strong, gusty winds. The auto mode transmission still lurches, but not as badly. The paddle-shifters manual-mode work fine, even with quick downshifts. I had ... http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/176 George: Take your tax rebates and put 'em where the sun don't shine. You can't buy me for a smidgin of what I pay in taxes, year in and year out, while you spend like it's your birthday and Daddy is paying the bills. Instead stop wasting that money on ... http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/183 A review of the Zonbu desktop PC, written for everyday users. What do you hate most about personal computers? They're expensive and half the time make more work than they save. When something goes wrong it is so frustrating. Then I have to pay somebody to come out and help me, which is ... http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/180 ZOOM The Global Race to Fuel the Car of The Future by Iain Carson and Vijay Vaitheesswaran October 2007 Twelve Books or from Powell's            Overview ZOOM covers the history of the oil business and its growth into a tangle of giant industrials and oil-rich governments, followed by an analysis of what will happen ... http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/178 But only a few giant companies can build a Corolla. In the automobile business, hitting the price/performance point could be more challenging than designing a great car. Sure, it takes dedication, some very smart designers, and trainloads of cash to design and build those few hundred Bugattis. But with a corporate ... http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/170 There's no big mystery here: torture is immoral and unacceptable. Moreover, real professional interrogators agree that it doesn't work. Diplomats agree that it removes diplomatic leverage in world affairs. The entire democratic world, under the Geneva Convention since World War II, has resolved to never use it. It's ... http://www.jawfish.net/wp/archives/174