Today Steve Ballmer sent out an all points memo to the troops within Microsoft, some of what he says makes sense, some of his assumptions are questionable and some are just great in theory but the gun is facing towards Microsoft’s foot.
here is the email in its entirety and I will highlight the areas where [...]
I frequent a car news group (the old fashioned NNTP type, not them fancy new fangled web forum types) and there are a couple of particularly obnoxious Hybrid owners in the group of regulars. One owns a Honda Civic Hybrid, I think he may be Bipolar as his posting can vary from nice and polite [...]
Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) American feminist leader and suffragist
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. – in 1896, addressing the National American Woman Suffrage [...]
I’m gobsmaked at the moment, It seems that a communion wafer is worth more to a Catholic than a human Life.
I of course refer to the story over on Pharyngula when PZ Myers commented on a story about a Eucharist wafer that someone was GIVEN by a priest, and he then proceeded to take it [...]
I have been a bit pre occupied of late, the last three days have been spent getting the last of those “last minute” jobs out of the way for my daughter, who is travelling overseas to Vietnam for 3 weeks, Yesterday my wife and I drove my Daughter and the people she is travelling with [...]
Thanks to Cowcakes for the link
http://www.livescience.com/environment/080708-ap-cheney-cuts.html Cheney Wanted Cuts In Climate Testimony
By H. Josef Hebert, The Associated Press
posted: 08 July 2008 05:00 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to downplay the effects of global warming, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office pushed to delete references about the consequences of climate change on public health [...]
Yesterday while I was cleaning out the Guinea Pig cage (yes I know!!, you should see the menagerie we have here) I noticed my old “Masonic Lodge” Bible outside on the back steps. I picked it up and took it back inside as it has some sentimental value for me. Many years Ago my Father [...]
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I had a busy day today, I had to run all over town getting all the correct paperwork together so I can get my little motor scooter registered, that entailed me leaving my car at the bike shop it was being worked on and then riding the bike to work and leaving it there [...]