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The Looting of America

I think it's fairly easy for both liberals and conservatives to agree that putting purchasing power in the hands of the middle and lower classes is good. Certainly that's the goal in the "rising tide" theory, isn't it? Having a healthy working class lowers welfare needs, makes for more stable families, increases purchases of real goods and increases the overall tax take of governments. All that seems pretty obvious - where we get into shouting matches is how we should go about getting there. ..

Employment 7/3/2009 Tony Lawrence

Why aren't you doing that?

I was off reading or something but happened to walk back into the living room as my wife was watching the tail end of a news segment about people making money in this economy. This one was about some woman who started a website dealing with "mommies" and apparently is making good money reviewing cribs, toys, car seats and all that. I had missed most of it and honestly wasn't that interested anyway, but then my wife asked The Question: ..

Blogging 7/2/2009 Tony Lawrence

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The Helios Project

This is a guy in Austin Texas who has been building Linux computers for disadvantaged children. The Helios Project takes old computers, rebuilds them as necessary, pops Linux on them, and delivers them to needy kids. ..

Blogging 7/1/2009 Tony Lawrence

17,000 Net Illiterates Can't be Wrong!

Amazing as it may seem, over 17,000 visitors arrived here last month by way of Internet Explorer 6 or worse. I'm not amazed that there are 17,000 people still using crappy old browsers, but it is astonishing that any of them looked at more than one page here. ..

Blogging 6/30/2009 Tony Lawrence

Firefox 3.5 out soon

If it were not for extensions, I wouldn't use Firefox. I try to remember to use Safari for Gmail; that eliminates a lot of trouble. If I forget and do load Gmail in Firefox, it often hangs. With the new JavaScript, it doesn't crash the rest of Firefox, but you do have to wait (and wait... and wait) until Gmail either loads or Firefox gives up. Safari never has such problems. ..

MacOSX 6/29/2009 Tony Lawrence

OS X Console Log Monitoring

I hadn't looked at my Mac log files for quite some time. That's probably not an unusual habit for most users - heck, I bet most Windows users NEVER look at log files. It is more unusual for me; Unixy people tend to look at logs more often and that habit should have come with me to OS X. But it hadn't. ..

MacOSX 6/29/2009 Tony Lawrence

Help - I'm on a blacklist

You are getting bounced mail that says your email can't be delivered because you are on a blacklist. Almost always there will be instructions or a link in the bounce message that tells you what you need to do next. It's usually pretty simple. You follow the directions and get yourself removed, but a month or so later it happens again. You are unhappy, and if you are one of my Kerio Mailservercustomers, you might have sent me an email saying just how unhappy you are. ..

Security 6/26/2009 Tony Lawrence

Fear of fsck

I've heard similar things in the past. The fear is that fsck will "make things worse". The system is running now, it's working (or at least mostly working), so why tempt fate? The mental analogy here seems to be one of going in for surgery and dying from the anesthesia. ..

Linux 6/26/2009 Tony Lawrence

FTC and Affiliate Links

I had never thought about about conflict of interest on book reviews and other small items. When I do a review on Kerio. I've almost always mentioned that I am a reseller, but I just never thought it necessary for things like book reviews. Apparently it is. That's fine - I'm not trying to hide anything. My reviews are always honest whether I can make anything from a referral link or not. ..

Employment 6/24/2009 Tony Lawrence

Voila

Let's start out by noting that it's tough to compete with free. Both Skitch and Jing are free as I write this and Volia is not. Not only is it not free, it's not cheap. At $39.95, Voila's price is more than I'll spend without careful thought about whether I really need software,. Well, no, that's not exactly true, but it's more money than I can get away with without my wife asking if I really need it. ..

Blogging 6/22/2009 Tony Lawrence

I'm a lousy sales person

I'm a tech guy. I'm available to my customers - nights, weekends, while on vacation. I'll help them through any problem to the very best of my ability and could give you many testimonials to that. But I'm a lousy "salesman". ..

Employment 6/23/2009 Tony Lawrence

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