Monthly Archives: October 2004

Global Test

James Lileks has pounced on Kerry’s “global test” statement in the first debate?.
Yes, it is getting old as seemingly the only weak Kerry remark the freakishly Orwellian Bush campaign machine has found to target. Nonetheless, it was a foolish verbal simplification, and Lileks calls him on it: China’s occupation of Tibet, the Taliban’s oppression […]

Laszlo opens for business

I am giddy about this news: Laszlo is now Open Source. I haven’t used Laszlo, but the demos and documentation smell a lot like Flex. I’ve been excited about Flash as an application view layer? for a while, but have seen serious resistance to adoption for business reasons (“Macromedia? Like, the Dreamweaver […]

2004 Tour de Dad*scaled-images

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2004 Tour de Dad

My father’s annual city bike tour was another great event met with rave reviews.
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Photos courtesy of local polymath Jim Faughn.
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Iraq 2004

The number one lesson we should have learned, but our leadership clearly does not yet appreciate: security is a stronger human need than liberty. Self-determination is about freedom from fear, and chaos and uncertainty is even more frightening than a tyrannical, but predictable authoritarian regime.
Ironically, the subtleties of this seem to be reflected not […]