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Archive for June, 2006

He said, She said

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

I’ve been thinking more and more about politics in this mid-term election year. I hope I didn’t scare you off already.
When I see, time and again, people complaining about how “emergent” (I’m tired of correcting people about Emergent the organization and emerging church the movement) blasts conservatives and if we want to be really open [...]

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Royals Batting .310

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Oh wait, that’s their winning percentage.
So, while I’m glad the Royals have been able to put together a season-high win streak at four games, I’m realizing how bleak my team’s season picture actually is. If they started playing .500 ball right now for the rest of the season… they’d still lose 94 games.
Up until last [...]

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AT&T retrofits privacy policy: your data is not yours.
Xeni Jardin:
Beginning Friday, AT&T customers can enjoy the benefits of an upgraded privacy policy that leaves the telecom giant free to share even more personal data with the government. Snip from SF Chron article by David Lazarus:
The new policy says that AT&T — not customers — owns [...]

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The Hitler Versus Coulter Quiz

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

The Hitler vs. Coulter Quiz
“Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason…Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy.”
(Via The Anti-Manichaeist.)
I got 6 right… out of 14

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Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind – Nightly News with Brian Williams – MSNBC.com
“In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide.”
The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and [...]

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A Minute to Blog

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

I’ve been surprisingly busy south of the border (I’m in San Felipe right now), so I haven’t had much time to blog. Regular blogging will resume shortly…

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Forced Google Mexico Use

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

I’m in San Felipe, and I had my first really frustrating experience with Google. For some reason, if I’m on the internet via satellite, I can use google.com. But using the internet here by the pool, I’m forced to use google.com.mx…
Not really a big deal, except all of the extra information was in Spanish… until [...]

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