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Absurdity

We live in an absurd society where a company’s plans to ramp up production on machine Y of widget X by 17% is considered far more confidential than all my purchases of widget X and my purchasing information. IT groups bend over backwards to try to address the former and a lot less to [...]

Posted 20 December 2007 † jayoung § rambles ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged:

Building the Spartan Wall

EAST LANSING, MI - Michigan State University officials today announced that they were placing the campus on “lockdown”, and never allowing the faculty, post-docs, graduate students, and select undergraduates to leave the campus again. In a statement released from the office of University President Lou Anna K. Simon, the University said that “We [...]

Posted 19 December 2007 † jayoung § rambles ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

Shame

I have a good friend serving as an Army Chaplain in Afghanistan. I dropped him a note the other day to tell him about my wife and I bringing a second pup home and linking to the story of it.
His “government computer” in the office? It blocks access to Flickr apparently (and maybe [...]

Posted 15 December 2007 † jayoung § rambles ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged:

Nice Upgrade

Last night, when I was at the Quicken site looking at possible upgrades to Quicken 2006 for the Macintosh - either Quicken 2007 for Macintosh or Quicken 2008 for Windows (running under VMWare) - the prices were $59.99 (Macintosh) and $39.99 (Windows/Deluxe)
Today they are $69.99 and $59.99.
That might have made the decision for me [...]

Posted 07 November 2007 † jayoung § rambles ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Absolutely Astounding

Dear WordPress devs.
I really appreciate the work you do on WordPress. I appreciate your open source philosophy - I appreciate your contributions to the community of a relatively easy-to-use software package that has been a part of a revolution in how people communicate. Long ago, I threw away my own blogging [...]

Posted 25 September 2007 † jayoung § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , ,