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Entries from August 2008

Show me ze papers!

August 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off

   
DHS–the Gestapo–is a scary organization. Read the article. Take some
action. We can’t let this happen.
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DHS
proposes to require both ID papers and passes for all air
travel
August 12th, 2007
In a series of recent publications in the Federal Register, the Department of
Homeland Security is proposing a comprehensive new system of surveillance and,
perhaps more important, control of [...]

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Real ID–Time to Bury It

August 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off

   
This is very scary stuff. Read the article. 

Time To Bury REAL ID

Fund it?  Kill it.
The Senate will be voting this week on funding Homeland Security this week,
and one national ID card-loving politician is trying to slip-in a little REAL ID
funding: he needs to be stopped.

States have strongly resisted this unfunded federal mandate ñ one that [...]

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Finally, Onfolio starts to work…a little

August 13th, 2007 · Comments Off

    Not sure what I did. I have been reading Koursh Ghazi’s Tweaking Guide for Vista and I tried some new settings and reinstalled Onfolio. OMG it started working! Soft of. The graphics still don’t display properly but it works like it’s supposed to. In other words, all of the key commands work and I [...]

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System Hai Ku

August 11th, 2007 · Comments Off

    A few days ago, my good friend Pamela Dingle who writes the Adventures of an Eternal Optimist wrote some haiku about the “infinitely nested abstraction that a (meta-) system.” Her entry is:
System or metasystem?
Take your pick;
Someone will always disagree.

There was a flurry of comments–all in haiku–from noted industry players. Really good stuff. So Pamela [...]

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I’m Baaaaack…

August 10th, 2007 · Comments Off

    As you may have noticed, my domain disappeared for a few days. I fixed the problem and we back in business! Phew!

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