Archive for August, 2006
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
DailyTech - Department of Defense Study Urges Open Source Adoption
DailyTech - Department of Defense Study Urges Open Source Adoption
Well, I do Microsoft app’s by trade and software like Excel and SQL Server keeps me employed, but you have to take a look at the massive groundswell of a movement that Open Source and Linux are generating.
There shouldn’t be any question that once the “dinosaurs” […]
No Comments » - Posted in Tech by Garrett Tedeman
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Motorola to push Linux-based handsets in 2007 | TG Daily
Motorola to push Linux-based handsets in 2007 | TG Daily
No Comments » - Posted in Tech by Garrett Tedeman
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
H.L. Mencken - On Lawyers…
Quotes
“All the extravagance and incompetence of our present Government is due, in the main, to lawyers, and, in part at least, to good ones. They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. Every […]
No Comments » - Posted in Politics by Garrett Tedeman
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
The H. L. Mencken Page - A Mencken Cornucopia - guide to H. L. Mencken resources on the Web
The H. L. Mencken Page - A Mencken Cornucopia - guide to H. L. Mencken resources on the Web
The classic literary critic and scathing social pundit would have a lot to say about the current United States:
On Evolution:
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he had descended from Man…
On Lies:
All men […]
No Comments » - Posted in Politics by Garrett Tedeman
Sunday, August 13th, 2006
Excel - In Cell Bar Charts - New Technique
ยป Lightweight data exploration in Excel
This is a surprising simple but effective technique using the =REPT() function. Haven’t heard of it? Well, read on…
No Comments » - Posted in Finance, Tech by Garrett Tedeman
Sunday, August 13th, 2006
Wired News - A.P. - U.S. Soldiers Are Sick of It
…Especially this: Depleted Uranium. The metal is 60% as radioactive as natural uranium and 2x denser than lead. It is used as armor penetrators by tanks and guns in Iraq.It is also the mostly likely cause of what has been termed “Gulf War Syndrome” which affects an estimated 30% of the 700,000 […]
No Comments » - Posted in Politics, Tech by Garrett Tedeman
Saturday, August 5th, 2006
New Home - Have Moved to 1400 N Lake Shore Dr., Apt 7T
Yep, now a homeowner! Click here for map.
http://wikimapia.org/#y=41908092&x=-87626266&z=19&l=0&m=a
Wikimapia.org uses Google Maps to show “interesting” locations, 1400 was selected as one of the specific buildings on the Gold Coast, but here’s a better one, the Giza Plateau and Pyramids in Egypt:
http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=29976145&x=31133623&z=16&l=0&m=a
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
The Onion - Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More Power To Self
Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More Power To Self
