Monthly Archives: October 2008

In defense of liberalism and taxation

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Jeff

On a mail­ing list with some local and not so local acquain­tances of mine, we’ve been dis­cussing pol­i­tics recently, and because I’m as left wing as Rachel Mad­dow and some of the oth­ers are as right wing as Sean Han­nity, it … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Live Mesh for Windows Mobile works!

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Jeff

From the Live Mesh blog: Thank you for using the Live Mesh for Mobile client! For users who saw a fail­ure to add their mobile phone to their mesh, we have deployed an updated build of Live Mesh for Mobile. You will … Con­tinue read­ing →

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It’s here! Or not.

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Jeff

Live Mesh for Win­dows Mobile is offi­cially avail­able. Only it doesn’t work. Maybe. Since rolling out the lat­est Live Mesh release this after­noon, a num­ber of cus­tomers have reported trou­ble installing the Live Mesh for Mobile soft­ware. We have iden­ti­fied the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Less than 3 days to NaNo

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Jeff

NaNoW­riMo is just over 52 hours away as I write this. I’m incred­i­bly excited. I’ve only done this once before, in 2006, and it was a blast. If you’ve never tried it, the point is to get as many peo­ple together around the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Yay! I voted!

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Jeff

For me, this elec­tion is essen­tially over. I dropped by one the early polling places (two, actu­ally) yes­ter­day and cast my vote for Barack Hus­sein Obama (and Joe Biden, Mark Udall for Colorado’s sen­ate seat and Ed Perl­mut­ter for my con­gres­sional … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Live Mesh for Windows Mobile on the way

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Jeff

Back in April when we did the ini­tial tech pre­view release of Live Mesh we empha­sized a vision for how the offer­ing would bring together your world of devices – a start­ing point to deliver on the data, devices, and peo­ple aspects of our … Con­tinue read­ing →

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More dumbass white folks

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Jeff

Two igno­rant crack­ers got them­selves arrested today after plan­ning to assas­si­nate Barack Obama. Law enforce­ment agents have bro­ken up a plot by two neo-​Nazi skin­heads to assas­si­nate Demo­c­ra­tic pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Barack Obama and shoot or decap­i­tate 88 black peo­ple, the Bureau … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Redistribution of wealth

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Jeff

I over­heard a dis­turb­ing story at the office today. A woman went out to din­ner over the week­end, and noticed that the waiter was wear­ing an Obama tie. She didn’t say any­thing through­out the meal, but when it came time to pay … Con­tinue read­ing →

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One of us

Posted on October 26, 2008 by Jeff

I’m dis­heart­ened at how many working-​class peo­ple are still out there that have been deluded into think­ing that McCain, the mul­ti­mil­lion­aire with seven house, is one of them, while Barack Obama is a “Har­vard elit­ist” who doesn’t under­stand the “real … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Need more proof McCain doesn’t understand the middle class?

Posted on October 26, 2008 by Jeff

The Wall Street Jour­nal (a pretty good source of infor­ma­tion if you avoid the edi­to­r­ial page) has an inter­est­ing break­down of the eco­nomic pol­icy changes pro­posed by both pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates. To respond to vot­ers who want imme­di­ate eco­nomic help, both … Con­tinue read­ing →

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