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This is my personal web page but I hope that you will find things that are both useful and interesting. I'll be adding many things to this site as time goes on, and if you have something you want, please feel free to contact me.
If you know Mike or Boyce, (they are the same person) then you are on the right starting page. These pages contain my personal work that I've decided to inflict on share with the world for some reason or another or I've stuck out here for my own benefit.
Microsoft has released a free antivirus. If you use Windows (and if you don't know, then you do) then you need an anti-virus program. Unless you have a good reason to use something else, then you should use Microsoft Security Essentials.
This is the coolest thing Microsoft has ever done. Really, this is THE coolest thing Microsoft has ever done. I am dead serious here. This is it.
''If you ever wondered why there were some really stupid things going on in Star Wars, these emails may shed some light on the problem for you. Nardo-Design-Empire is responsible for a lot of the really bad design decisions. Take the death of the Emperor, you may recall that he was thrown down this bottomless shaft pretty much in his throne room, but why would that be there? Read on.'
from: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/nardo-design-empire.php
Subject This darn bottomless shaft in my room
From Emperor Palpatine <bigbossman@empiremail.com>
Date A Long Time Ago 1:42 AM
To Nardo Pace <npace@empiremail.com>
You are responsible for designing my Throne Room, yes? Do not doubt it. I can see the truth inside you. It burns with a twisted blackness that cannot be denied.
I ask you this: Why is there a chasm in my room? ...
Patent law is a mess
News from April 11, 2009 on cnet ''In May, a federal jury in Tyler, Texas, ruled that the custom XML tagging features of Word 2003 and Word 2007 infringed on i4i's patent and ordered Microsoft to pay $200 million in the case.' In Tuesday's ruling, Microsoft was also ordered to pay an additional $40 million for willful infringement, as well as $37 million in prejudgment interest.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft in many cases. In many cases their methods of doing business are questionable at best and evil at worst. Some of their products and design decisions are just stunningly wrong. That's why it is hard for me to champion them against a Texas (my home state) court case, but I feel compelled to agree with Microsoft in this case.
XML is and always has been about doing exactly what Microsoft has done with Word and XML. This patent should never have been granted and it should have been invalidated the moment a court took a look at it. Interestingly enough, I think the same thing should happen to Microsoft's shiny new Document XML patent.
I have my opinion and the facts shall not sway me!
Global Warming and/or Climate Change: The issues are real, but the science is weak. The really serious problem is that it has become such a fad of pseudo-science tied to politics that it can no longer be addressed rationally. Consider the EPA problem, where in a 98 page report, a staff researcher warned of "decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data."
The EPA center director, however was unswayed by the facts.
The EPA official, Al McGartland, said in an e-mail message (PDF) to a staff researcher on March 17: "The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward...and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision."
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