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Investigative reporting at its finest — and it involves chocolate

Investigative reporting at its finest — and it involves chocolate

| December 23, 2006 | Reply

Over the past few years, the mainstream media has done a fair amount of sniffing over the arriviste mob of bloggers and how they aren’t real journalist, while ignoring their own propensity for bias, sloppiness, and logical fallacies. This made it all the more, ah, delicious to read one the best, most methodical examples of […]

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Blizzard blogging, part II

Blizzard blogging, part II

| December 22, 2006 | 1 Reply

As soon as the sun was decently up, I resumed my effort to get our driveway clear from snow. This photo shows what I had done yesterday for the area in front of our garage and front door: After another hour or two of eating away at the large drift across the top of our […]

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Blizzard blogging

Blizzard blogging

| December 21, 2006 | 2 Replies

[FINAL UPDATE: 5:17 pm on 12/21/06]: Last few photos. [UPDATED 12:10 pm on 12/21/06]: Yet more photos. [UPDATED 9:00 am on 12/21/06]: I’ve added more photos. [UPDATED 7:34 am on 12/21/06]: I’ve added photos. Well, we were planning to be in San Diego for Christmas (we being myself, my wife Sandra and our daughter Emily). […]

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Newest Contributor: Ruby Raley

Newest Contributor: Ruby Raley

| November 29, 2006 | Reply

I’ve known Ruby for a decade or so. She came up to me after I gave a session at a technical conference on the need for leadership in IT organizations and offered both cogent observations and useful criticisms. We’ve been friends ever since and just recently co-authored an article for Cutter IT Journal titled “The […]

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Sorry for the slow postings (redux)

Sorry for the slow postings (redux)

| November 29, 2006 | Reply

Well, the WordPress problem continues, so I can only post from my server system at home. Combined with the travel I’ve been through over the past several weeks, I haven’t gotten on here much. However, I’m not going anywhere until Christmas, so I’ll aim at posting daily here.  ..bruce..

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Into the Storm

Into the Storm

| November 18, 2006 | Reply

I get to have some interesting encounters in my job. For the last 18 months I have been campaigning first in the DoD and then in the commercial space to bring to market a new kind of software. It’s job in life it digest massive amounts of data and event information to come up with […]

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Brilliant little film (machinima)

Brilliant little film (machinima)

| November 1, 2006 | Reply

It’s called Deviation, and it’s “filmed” within the FPS game Half-Life: Counter-Strike. Since I have three sons who collectively have spent more hours and years playing first-person-shooter games than I can comfortably conceive, I find the film particularly amusing. ..bruce..

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Games much worse than tag

Games much worse than tag

| October 30, 2006 | 1 Reply

There’s been some controversy lately over the plans of a Massachusetts elementary school to ban tag. Elle Dee, over at this is by us, has started a thread named “Games We Played that were Much Worse than Tag“. Here was my own contribution: Back in 1958-60, our family lived in the West Kalayaan US Naval […]

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Housing Market – The Makings of a Rough Ride

Housing Market – The Makings of a Rough Ride

| October 30, 2006 | Reply

As per request, some additional information on the housing market in the US. Rather than pull someone else’s good work today, we are going to delve into the output of an interesting and unique piece of software that called “Hardtack”. Hardtack is a system that “strip mines” a variety of MLS databases (real estate multiple […]

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You Have Got To Be Kidding Me…

You Have Got To Be Kidding Me…

| October 28, 2006 | Reply

The Busher Reactor Under Construction in Iran – 2004, Digitial Globe Quickbird 2 As some of you may have guessed, I try to stay current on world events dealing with ongoing and potential military conflicts, especially where they involve ongoing or potential proliferation of WMDs. Cruising by one of the Arms Control Blogs, I see […]

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