a crank's progress

I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to get along, as Rodney King pleaded.
Continue reading “how far have we come and how far to go?”

The Seattle Times: Erik Lacitis: Standing by their SUVs: Listen to these nice-sounding people tell why they’re proud they live life large

The Seattle Times had a column about SUVs and the people who love them.
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Paul Holbrook’s Radio Weblog

Paul Holbrook tries to defend his bad science on computer/OS comparisons. If he had focused his complaints to slow browsing (ie, complained that all Mac browsers are crap) I might have let it go.

and I’m not sure how he was used to using Windows 2000 a few years ago, as he asserts. Oh, well, OS pissing contests are the most tedious of the genre . . . . .

He oughta try OS X, since he has an iMac. I have it running, and while it’s not without warts of its own, a mix of proven Apple applications (ie MS Office, et al) and a raft of Open Source stuff is hard to beat.

I seem to be in the Geritol demographic. KING.ORG and KING FM
Continue reading “what’s my scene?”

No, sorry, not the kind one has on a sunny, cloudless afternoon, but the kind based on the merest thread, but repeated as if it were fact.
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Welcome to the Microsoft Corporate Web Site

Bill Gates, co-founder and chief software architect of Microsoft, testified in person at the antitrust trial.
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