Monthly Archives: March 2010

Racial epithets or epitaphs

I already noted how Michael Steele said “racial epitaphs” when he clearly meant “racial epithets.” Now Doris Kearns Goodwin seems to have committed the same blunder. Listen to the NBC Meet the Press podcast from 3/28/10 at 35:48

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Michael Steele gaffe on MTP?

Did RNC Chairman Michael Steele condemn “racial epitaphs” or “racial epithets” on NBC’s Meet The Press on 3/21/10? If you listen at 27:40 on the Podcast, it sounds like he says “epitaphs.”

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Big Read and Good Read

I’ve discovered two web sites this week I’m excited about. They both have “Read” in the URL, but it’s just a coincidence. Honest. First is the Big Read, a site devoted to Luke’s Gospel readings for Lent and sponsored by … Continue reading

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What are Joel and Jeff up to?

So what kind of community are Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood launching? Podcast #85 has all kinds of saying stuff without saying anything. Then I get my joelonsoftware email where Joel says good bye.

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Problem with ColdFusion ListQualify function?

Here’s a ColdFusion/Oracle problem that took way longer than I thought it would. I wanted to exclude a couple names from a result set an pass the names in a single-quote, comma-delimited list: <cfset tempexcludelist =”PHIL,DON”> <cfset VARIABLES.excludelist = “(“&ListQualify(tempexcludelist,”‘”)&”)”> … Continue reading

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Observation about ABC’s This Week

No matter who’s hosting, George F. Will always gets the first question in the roundtable.

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NBC Meet The Press podcast screwup 3/14/10

The MTP episode podcast released on 3/14/10 is the 3/7/10 episode. What’s up with that?

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Welcome attention … or a hack in the making?

I’ve complained once or twice about a lack of readership. Well, just in the last few weeks I’ve had four subscribers and three comments. Was it the change in theme? Was it the addition of my site to my Google … Continue reading

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Shun Virtual PC 2007 if you want Ubuntu

I wish I had read the Ubuntu forum posting about Microsoft Virtual PC before wasting an hour+ of my life trying to get Ubuntu 9.10 to work on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. Everything installed fine, but I could get the … Continue reading

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arcster unmasked

When I started this arcster.com adventure, I was paranoid about privacy. Now I’m more frustrated by a lack of readers than a lack of privacy. I haven’t quite gotten to the stage of accepting the axiom “You have no privacy, … Continue reading

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