August 2004
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An Unexpected Patriot
"If a person is selected to a team like this, it shouldn't even be a question in your mind….It should be an honor to accept. If you grew up in the USA, you need to think of all the things the USA did for you — how it…
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XP Pro and iTunes
I recently downloaded iTunes and have been giving it a test run to see how well it works. All in all, I have to say that I'm impressed. I rarely buy music these days, but when I've wanted something, I just jump over to the ITMS and pick…
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Toolbar Frustration
I'm trying to build a toolbar icon for Firefox. The strange thing is that I can create the toolbar icon itself (ie, when I drag it out of the pallete of potential toolbar items to put it on the toolbar), in both small and large varieties, but I…
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Gone Googley
It's official. The IPO of the millenium is done. The strange thing is that no one quite seems to agree on the results. At least one publication thinks that the IPO was a failure, yet in the same article, they mention that the company made around $1.67 billion…
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Student Insurance
So our fourth-grader comes home with a brochure about insurance. I recognize that we don't live in the best part of town. I understand that a lot of the students in that school may not have insurance of any kind, and for that I can see the usefulness…
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Freedom of Choice
It seems that the governor of Illinois is planning to do more digging in the can of worms that is the prescription drug trade. By trade, I simply mean the process for getting the drugs to people who need them – not that he is involved in drug…
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Repetitive Events
I find it interesting how certain events can repeat year after year (or even more frequently), and yet people still attend in droves. It's not so much the people who visit for the first time that have me puzzled – it's those who go time after time after…
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What About Taxes?
Another batch of statistics is out – this one showing the percentage of our income that goes to different expenses. What I don't get is why the government can leave out the largest expenditure that any of us are likely to have – taxes. In the last year,…
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Truth in Advertising
Watching the Panthers game last night, we saw some of the new Miller commercials. The commercials appear to specialize in honesty. The problem is, the honesty is so hard to find that you might miss it. First, the commercial talks about taste preferences, and then moves to taste…
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Sour Grapes
New research has surfaced that sheds some doubt on particular quotes from the Quran. I don't know enough about any language to offer insight into the interpretation, so I'll leave that to someone else and I'll just look at the conclusions in this particular article. Other information, as…