Sony Blu-ray Disc Review BDP-BX58… and the future of Sony
Tweet This PostOn the masthead of our blog at “Life in the Great Midwest” it used to read “We Shill for Nobody”. And that is still true. But if we find something that may be interesting to others we...
View ArticleWhy Not Scriptkillers?
Tweet This PostUsing Firefox, many tabs open, my computer’s default state. Eventually I open a Web page that has a badly written script that bogs down the browser and sometimes the whole computer and...
View ArticleThe Internet Rewards Crazy
Tweet This PostCrazy, overconfident; the opposite of the judicious, scientific, skeptical temperament. Extreme opinions. Stubborn. Bombastic. The opposite of thoughtful. Changing your mind frequently,...
View ArticleA host of lessons on the web, with room for admiration
Tweet This Post[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- Farrall and McCants, debate and discourse] . . There’s a whole lot to be learned about jihad, counter-terrorism, scholarship, civil discourse, online...
View ArticleTwo New Articles at Pragati Magazine
Tweet This PostMy amigo Adam Elkus and I each have an article up at the newest issue of Pragati magazine. Adam is reviewing the Sanger book on Obama and national security and I tackle the strategic...
View ArticleMusings on L’Affaire du Poulet Filet
Tweet This PostTaking it into my head to go to the local Chick-fil-A last Wednesday was another one of those odd things, like getting involved in the Tea party which happened because of a friend. In...
View ArticleSkunk Help With Social Networking
Tweet This PostLast night I reaped the benefits of social networking, facebook in particular. We finally finished our house on the farm and moved there on Friday. Around 8pm on Sunday our dog started...
View ArticleGirl Genius is down due to DNS
Tweet This PostFor a certain style of geek, the week is not complete without stopping by Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to dip into the mad science world of Girl Genius, a creation of Phil and Kaja...
View ArticleGoogle Reader: The End
Tweet This PostGoogle will discontinue Reader, their online newsfeed reader for RSS and Atom, on July 1, 2013. Reader users must find a replacement. Google is killing Reader as part of a spring...
View Article“What Happens When A Famous Restaurant Doesn’t Buy Its Domain Name”
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View ArticleBowdoin: In 1825 & Now
Tweet This PostI don’t know much about Bowdoin. This seems, unfortunately, to be expected. I like the donor’s response – the president’s petty grandstanding is an overreach that motivates. Smugness...
View ArticleThe Way We Do Business Today
Tweet This PostWith the employment prospects being what it is these days, I have read repeatedly in the last couple of years that really enterprising individuals are tempted to turn indy and go...
View ArticleWasp Stings and Social Media
Tweet This PostWe had a problem at the farm yesterday. I got home a bit early and decided to clean up a deck that had become overgrown with weeds. We had wooden lawn furniture on it. I moved the...
View ArticleRather Obviously, Not an Obama Fan
Tweet This PostSo, I had a book club meeting in Fredericksburg, Texas, this morning – which was a blast for me personally, as it was one of my own books that they had read for the monthly selection....
View ArticleSocial-Media Corruption
Tweet This PostWhat proportion of all social-media communication is by bots, spammers, people with agendas who misrepresent themselves, or severely dysfunctional people who pass as normal online? I...
View ArticleThe Future of Media (?)
Tweet This PostAs I was walking in River North I stopped short after seeing this sign for “Buzz Feed”. If you don’t know the name, they are a very successful internet site (is that what you call it...
View ArticleFreedom, the Village, and the Internet
Tweet This PostI’ve reviewed two books by German writer Hans Fallada: Little Man, What Now?, and Wolf Among Wolves (the links go to the reviews), both of which were excellent. I recently finished his...
View ArticleOn Being an IT Project Manager
Tweet This PostMy profession is much in the news at the moment, so I thought I would pass along such insights as I have from my career, mostly from a multibillion-dollar debacle which I and several...
View Article“New Study: Internet Trolls Are Often Machiavellian Sadists”
Tweet This PostCited here (via Lindsay Bell). The conclusions of this study seem consistent with observation. Abstract In two online studies (total N = 1215), respondents completed personality...
View Article2014 Midwest Business & Markets Conference
Tweet This Postcross-posted to zenpundit.com The Union League Club of Chicago Building Yesterday, I attended the 2014 Midwest Business & Markets Conference at the historic Union League Club of...
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