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Thursday, April 06, 2006

With all the guffawing and orgasming going on around the blogosphere about Scooter Libby and the Valerie Plame affair, you’d think something important had come out of the “revelation” that President Bush and company has authorized Libby to leak “classified information”.

Some perspective is needed. Let me offer some. The following quote comes from a Wall Street Journal article about the events:

“As president, Mr. Bush has wide latitude to declassify information, and Mr. Fitzgerald makes no suggestion that such authorization would have been illegal. The filing doesn't say either the president or vice president told Mr. Libby to disclose the identity of Central Intelligence Agency operative Valerie Plame.”

Did everyone follow that? The President (that’s any President) has that latitude. And the filing had nothing… zero, zilch, nada… to do with Valerie Plame. And to reiterate one more time… declassifying information is something the executive branch does all the time, especially if such disclosures benefit their own policies. Criticizing Joseph Wilson’s assertions about WMDs and Iraq was neither illegal nor unexpected. In fact, I’d be more concerned if the President’s staff didn’t counterpunch.

Honestly, people. This relentless search for wrongdoing is tiresome, and trite. There are a great many things that bother me about the Bush administration, but this just isn’t one of them, because it’s such a non-story. And just because a group of people wants it to be a story doesn’t make it one.

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.: posted by Dave 11:18 PM



Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Dual-booting a Mac with XP? Yep. It’s called “Boot Camp” and it’s the next great thing from Apple. Thus, Apple now has the only machine capable of booting OS X, XP, Unix, and Linux.

As a developer, project manager, and programmer, I’ve said for a long time that a multifunction device would be great. I’ve used VMWare to accomplish this to some extent, but not in the Mac world. Macs just don’t play with PCs. Well, they DIDN’T until now.

How does this look for the long term? It makes Jobs look like a genius. It makes my portfolio look fat, with Apple stock increasing by a healthy 8%. It means that dedicated PC users will be buying Macs, and deciding for themselves which OS works best for their needs. And it makes “Write Once, Run Anywhere” a distinct possibility for the near future.

I’ve avoided the Macs like the plague, not because they aren’t good devices, but because they locked me into the Mac OS, and my world revolves around Windows and dot NET. Well, it looks like this set of circumstances is going to lead me into getting a Mac, for the novelty, if nothing else. And it’s the hobbyists like me that Apple is targeting. And I guarantee this is going to make them a good chunk of change.

The public beta is available here.

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.: posted by Dave 3:26 PM


Today's Favorite Letter to the Editor:

There is no free lunch. This is frankly a major reason why I am a Democrat instead of a Republican. There is no greater issue to me than our children's eductaion.

That's E-D-U-C-T-A-I-O-N.

Typo. Meet Spellcheck. Spellcheck. Typo.

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.: posted by Dave 2:45 PM



Tuesday, April 04, 2006



Yesterday, our little one turned .25 years old. Three months. Time escapes us. Here's hoping for millions more smiles like this one.

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.: posted by Dave 2:38 PM





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