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March 11, 2009

Spring is here, and this year I need to replace my completely trashed TREK 7800 that just has no more life left in it. And I’m broke. And I’m a bit of a masochist (hey, I learned to mountain bike on an aluminum Cannondale with no suspension, so I can suffer in style) — and…

March 11, 2009

Spring is here, and this year I need to replace my completely trashed TREK 7800 that just has no more life left in it. And I’m broke. And I’m a bit of a masochist (hey, I learned to mountain bike on an aluminum Cannondale with no suspension, so I can suffer in style) — and…

March 9, 2009
March 9, 2009
March 9, 2009

Thus Spake Our Savvy Saviour: “[P]art of the reason we don’t spend a lot of time looking at blogs is because if you haven’t looked at it very carefully then you may be under the impression that somehow there’s a clean answer one way or another – well, you just nationalize all the banks, or…

March 6, 2009

AP quotes Obama’s CIA chief reassuring his troops: nobody involved in torturing people will suffer consequences of any sort. Whew, thank goodness. For a moment there I was thinking that this whole “Change You Can Believe In” might mean some sort of accountability — you know, if you knowingly violate the constitution or international treaties…

March 6, 2009

South Carolina’s contribution to the political clown car: Senator DeMint (D) knows how to play the insult game: lash out against all the kids in DC’s public schools and call them all likely gang bangers, all while ignoring the fact that they’re more likely to graduate high school than the kids back in his own…

February 26, 2009

A client of mine wants to set up a blog on the joomla 1.5 site I recently built for them. They would like this, that, and the other feature that are precisely the reasons why a lot of people over the past years have slammed Joomla as a bad blogging platform. I blog on Joomla,…