Larry’s blog entry links to both a video and a transcript.

On the De Anza College campus yesterday, I happened onto a pile of leftover Easy Voter Guides.  While in general I think it was a well-prepared and useful guide, I did find one suggestion in it rather funny.  Under “How to Decide Which Way to Vote on a Proposition”, one method they suggest is “Find [...]

In a 60 Minutes interview, President Musharraf of Pakistan said of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto “for standing up outside the car, I think it was she to blame alone — nobody else. Responsibility is hers.”
Am I crazy, or wouldn’t it be reasonable to put at least some of the blame on [...]

The U.S. Congress has enacted various legislation and regulations intended to encourage energy savings. Some of the better known programs are the EPA’s Energy Star program, and the DoE’s Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products. In some cases, though, poorly thought out legislation or regulations may backfire.
Last night I decided to buy a [...]

If you buy a Sony PRS-500 Portable Reader System (PRS-500), you can get 100 classic books “free” as ebooks. These are books that are in the public domain, so Sony doesn’t have to pay royalties on them, though Sony slaps DRM on them. I thought it would be nice to have a copy [...]

Now that the four million dollar subsidy of the San Jose Grand Prix is spent, the promoters have dropped it like a hot potato.  What a surprise!  It is claimed that the reason for discontinuing it is downtown construction, but that’s clearly a load of BS intended to let the city save face.  Such events [...]

Yesterday I received a mailed notice from Monster.com, stating that their database had been compromised, including my contact information. Fortunately I had not provided them with any information that I consider sensitive.
Given how many such cases of personal data theft or loss are reported, I wonder how many are covered up, and how many [...]

The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding fine!
Judge Kimball has ruled in SCO v. Novell that SCO does not own the Unix copyrights, and therefore most of SCO’s claims against Novell are dismissed. SCO has to waive claims against IBM and Sequent, and also owes Novell a lot of money (in [...]

The day after the bridge collapse in Minnesota, an article in the San Jose Mercury News reported that Caltrans claims the bridges in the San Francisco Bay area to be safe.
While I have a lot of respect for Caltrans, I don’t actually find that very reassuring.  I suspect that if the officials in Minnesota had [...]

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