Today in his NY Times sponsored blog, "Conscience of a Liberal", Paul Krugman points out the lunacy in te financial news media.  The very people who cheered on the kinds of activities and processes that led to the current housing and credit crises are still being given front and center positions to talk about what  Read more »

I realized I hadn’t posted any bash.org quotes for a while and when I went to look I came across several that I wanted to share.  I’ve been using IRC since well.. for a very very long time (remember BEFORE DalNET came and went?)  and I don’t remember bash.org ever having this many political quotes.   Read more »

Tracking Congress can be a serious headache. With so many bills and votes in play, it’s difficult to figure out which ones are significant and which ones… aren’t so much. OpenCongress.org has a new proposal to make it easier than ever to track your interests in Congress. We’ve submitted it to the NetSquared competition, in  Read more »

I spent way too much of yesterday trying do the impossible.  Our office in Manhattan has a nice NAS device that is used to store data for two of our magazines.  The NAS device has been backed up nightly – in theory – to a USB drive attached to an OLD Acer laptop sitting on  Read more »