There are plenty of good analyses already on yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling strengthening eminent domain, in Kelo v. New London, a power granted in the Constitution that allows the goverment to seize private property. The power has been greatly expanded by stretching "public use" to include "public purposes" such as expanding the tax base. it’s […]
Great news for Ben Olsen, who was named to the US squad for the Gold Cup next month. After two injury plagued years, Olsen restablished himself in the DC United lineup during last season’s championship run. Its great to see him get a shot at returning to national team, where he was a regular before
Jon Udell’s column on tacit knowledge about computers touches on a trait that can be used to separate computer geeks from regular users. Computer geekds know how to and are comfortable figuring out how to do something with their computer (setup mail filters, reconfigure their desktop, automate repetitive tasks) and casual users are frustrated by
Over at deseretnews.com, their Real Salt Lake correspondent had this to say about United after this week: "After stinking it up for most of the season, MLS defending champion D.C. United stepped it big time last week." This, from a guy who covers a team who’s only achievement this season looks to be setting the
I haven’t blogged about it this time, partially because my dad isn’t trapped there this time, but after another bouth of unrest, Bolivia is on its 3rd president in as many years (i think). Populist political leaders have used the nationalization of the country’s natural gas industry to channel the dissatisfaction of ordinary Bolicians into
I’m back online! We’ve been settling into the new house over the last two weeks. Almost everything is unpacked and put away, although there’s lots of little stuff left to do like hang up pictures, organize books, finisih setting up the home theatre, and so on. I’ve mowed the lawn twice now, thereby tripling my
We may be witnessing the beginnings of a more mainstream backlash against Windows and the general frustration they inflict on average users. I’ll start by adding that I still have 2 windows installations used solely for playing World of Warcraft. My main machine dual boots to Debian Linux, where I do the occasional bit of
I haven’t updated in almost a week and I haven’t really put up anything significant in quite a while. It’s not really because my INTP brain is getting bored with blogging, but real life and work have been pretty busy lately. As a result, I haven’t had as much time to devote to writing for
So if you read my last post you saw that my sister’s now engaged! Her fiance Kevin, who she met nearly 3(?) years ago now but they didn’t start dating until the beginning of last year, surprised her with the big question during a trip to New York. I won’t spoil more details but will
Graph paper provided endless hours of distraction for me back in the day. Now, you can get various styles of graph paper as PDF – tons of styles. From boingboing.