Monthly Archives: August 2004

Indiatimes Offers Blogs

I’m not a huge fan of Indiatimes, however now that they’ve added weblogs to the roster of services offered, I applaud their using the .Text engine. Dottext and WordPress have to be the best weblog engines out there, for free … Continue reading

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Scripting News and the Kerry Campaign

It’s sad to see Scripting News turn into a soundbite site for the Kerry Campaign. Weblogs are supposed to wear their biases on their sleeves (and Dave has laid his biases bare: this election has one and only one issue … Continue reading

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Victor David Hanson on Europe

Victor David Hanson: So insular had [Europe's] utopians become under the aegis of NATO’s subsidized protection that it was increasingly convinced that the ubiquitous United States was the world’s rogue nation, the last impediment to a 35-hour work week, cradle-to-grave … Continue reading

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Gmail Notifier Beta

Gmail Notifier is Google’s official Windows-based Gmail biff tool. It’s in beta, but works well for me.

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Iowa Electronic Markets

For this year’s US Presidential Election, the graph to watch is the Iowa Electronic Markets Winner-takes-all market prices graph. Interestingly, it’s been running close to a dead heat these past two weeks. What does the market know that we don’t? … Continue reading

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India's Olympic Medal Chances

(Via Slashdot) Slate on Macroeconomics and Olympic Destiny: The model projects such big losses for established Olympic powers — and such big gains for nobodies — largely because of the influence of GDP growth. In the past four years, France … Continue reading

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Quick Bits: Sofia, XP SP2

I’m back to posting after a long hiatus. Lots going on now so posting will be light; however I’ll try to keep posting once in a while. * * * I was in the beautiful city of Sofia on a … Continue reading

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