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Heeding the Past As She Looks To the Future: "The strategy that Hillary Clinton relies on today has its origins in the repositioning Morris crafted in those bleak days of early 1995. Here is another irony, because as a conservative commentator he is now one of her most vehement critics. The strategy Morris advocated -- centrist positioning on the budget, and emphasis on small but concrete actions and rhetorical statements to underscore the incumbent's values -- came with relative ease to Bill Clinton. An accommodator by nature, he was instinctively comfortable with the split-the-difference brand of politics that Morris called 'triangulation.'"

Private Radio Nice blog.

The Superficial - Because You're Ugly Spy on the bimbos!

Senator Frist is Right - Compromise is Wrong - John Jay Hooker Blog

Arp Peculiar GalaxyClub Introduction ARP! ARP!

AP: Lawmakers Belatedly Disclose Trips: "WASHINGTON -- Scrutiny of Majority Leader Tom DeLay's travel has led to the belated disclosure of at least 198 previously unreported special interest trips by House members and their aides, including eight years of travel by the second-ranking Democrat, an Associated Press review has found. At least 43 House members and dozens of aides had failed to meet the one-month deadline in ethics rules for disclosing trips financed by organizations outside the U.S. government." So let's fire them all. Could term limits by any other name smell as sweet?

InformationWeek > Google Strategy > Interview: Google CEO Eric Schmidt Talks Business Technology > May 26, 2005: "InformationWeek: As you said during today's Gartner Symposium, five years hence you want to say you'd been able to out innovate people. And I think that people outside the company like to imagine that there's some sort of grand strategic vision that's driving everything. Schmidt: [laughs] They've obviously not visited Google. We delight in the lack of such strategy. We're very careful to say we're not trying to build one thing. We're trying to innovate in all these interesting spaces. Every innovation is end-user tested and as they become more and more widely adopted, we figure out interesting things to do with them. These teams show off all day when we do product reviews and I say just don't talk to me about long-term strategy. I'm not interested. I want to know why is your product not shipping until next week. And then after this thing is released, tell me what you're going to do about it."

Computing at Columbia Timeline: "1976: Hot newsletter topics: APL, the Gould plotter, PL/I, SPSS, BMDP, ASP3, Syncsort, 'Crosstabs with Multipunch'..."

Computing at Columbia Timeline Oooooh!

Microsoft: Remove Netscape 8 from Windows systems: "Microsoft Corp. is urging Windows users to uninstall the new Netscape 8 Web browser from their computers, saying it damages the company?s own Internet Explorer browser." I would think that might be considered a feature.

NewsForge | Windows rapidly approaching desktop usability: "Every year or so I like to see how Microsoft is doing in its attempt to make a desktop operating system as usable as Linux. Microsoft Windows XP, Home Edition, with Service Pack 2, is a tremendous improvement over previous Windows versions when it comes to stability and appearance, but it still has many glitches that keep it from being competitive with GNU/Linux for everyday users, including a tedious installation procedure, lack of productivity software included with the operating system, hardware compatibility problems, and a price so much higher than any of the Linux distributions I've tested lately that I don't feel this product is a good value for most home or small office users" hehe

NewsForge | Detroit high school opens its desktops

The Decembrist: The Fortas Filibuster and Janice Rogers Brown: "Thurmond would invite Senators one by one up to his office to have a look at these films -- but no ladies, of course! (There was only one woman in the Senate at the time.) The vision of Thurmond and his cronies sitting in that dark room watching black and white stag films of the pre-Deep Throat era, over and over again while pretending to be considering a Supreme Court nomination has always been a horrifying vision, but a reminder that there's nothing that much nobler about the Senate of the recent past than today's.)" This from a Liberal, who opposes the Janice Brown nomination. I disagree with his conclusion. The left has had several years to put up a good smear campaign against Brown and have failed. Her whacky Libertarian ideas can be summarized as: Government doesn't always solve as many problems as it creates. A sentiment that most American would agree with. The loopy left, consisting largely of lifetime government "servants" just don't get this, and if Government grows to include half the population (not as remote as it sounds) all hope for freedom will be lost. (I know some of these lifers who sit around viewing porn films at work to this very day).

Technocrat.net | Microsoft Abandons .NET for Longhorn Speaking of un-maintanable designs. Not that Windows was ever designed in the first place, but it has definitely grown beyond Microsfts ability to do anything with it (in a timely fashion). Time to start over here too.

NASA - Return to Flight I REALLY don't think they should be flying these things any more. They are way to complex for any one person or even any small group of people to understand. Time to start with a newer, simpler design.

Dredged soil-dumping incident in coastal bays investigated: "Richard McIntire, an MDE spokesman, said an inspector had visited the job site on Tuesday in response to the complaint. He said the problem has happened several times before after drivers complained that sediment was leaking from the trucks used to take away the dredged soil, and Ocean City officials advised the company to dump it in the bay instead. Chris Augsberger, a spokesman for the Corps of Engineers, said the public works agency considers all allegations of unauthorized dumping 'a serious matter.'" So, is this a case of evil company, or idiotic government? We report, you decide. Err, or something.

My Way News: "Rosen testified that he mistakenly thought some in-kind contributions, including the Porsche he used while in Los Angeles to organize the event, were simply gifts." Porsche? Party of the people. Yeah.

Poll majority say they'd be likely to vote for Clinton - Yahoo! News: "'Over time, Clinton fatigue has dissipated ... and people are looking back on the Clinton years more favorably,' says Andrew Kohut, director of the non-partisan Pew Research Center. In a Pew poll released this month, Kohut called former president Bill Clinton and the senator 'comeback kids' because of their rising ratings. 'This may also reflect that she has been recasting her image as a more moderate person,' he says." If it is well understood that she has "recast" herself how is it that people are tempted to vote for someone with no core beliefs? This is something that I'll never understand about the typical voter. Then again, the typical voter probably isn't reading this article, or paying any attention to such polls.

Microsophist: Rudder steers Microsoft back on course: "Eric's most distinguishing characteristic is that he is a complete and utter asshole. I've never met a more obnoxious adult."