Archive for June, 2002

Liberty

Tuesday, June 25th, 2002

Eric Raymond now has a blog. His site seems to have the proper tags on the home page to allow it to be used with any rssify script, but I haven’t yet found one that allows me to subscribe to his site in my news aggregator. Today Eric is talking about Islam.

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Terry McAuliffe

Monday, June 24th, 2002

Terry McAuliffe, theChairman of the Democratic National Committee, was on Microsoft’s campus today talking to employees. Quite a few employees in attendence were devoted Democrats, but there were enough other viewpoints represented to make things interesting. Terry seemed most uncomfortable when answering questions about antitrust policy, which is only natural considering the history. And he […]

Addiction

Sunday, June 23rd, 2002

Today Dave reveals that he faces serious health risks unless he quits smoking. It is often said that nicotine is more addictive than heroin. In the strictest sense, of physical dependence, this is an exaggeration. But the psychological dependencies make the difference. Any addict who does any drug repeatedly will learn to crave when presented […]

Precog Clarity

Saturday, June 22nd, 2002

Watched Minority Report today. I had fun trying to detect traces of Scientology in the movie. I noticed that the drug Cruise bought was called “Clarity”, and this combined with”precogs”resembles“Clear” and “Preclear” that are so important to Scientology. The entire movie had Cruise acting like a clear, with the only real reactive mind episode coming […]

Foxpro Scramble

Friday, June 21st, 2002

This is the kind of crazy stuff that happens here. Apparently, Hugh Winters has gone out on his own and hired a plane to fly over the Microsoft campus with a “Happy 10th Anniversary Foxpro” banner. I just got an e-mail saying that the plane is going to start buzzing campus in 30 minutes. I […]