Daily Archives: October 26, 2008

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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Thick or thin

Posted on October 26, 2008 by Jeff

Over the past cou­ple weeks I’ve been try­ing a new exper­i­ment. Now that I’ve embraced the “net­book lifestyle,” I thought I’d see what this cloud com­put­ing thing was really all about. While I have Microsoft Office 2007 loaded on my HP Mini-​Note, I thought … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The eyes boggle

Posted on October 26, 2008 by Jeff

I’m sit­ting at Chipo­tle putting the fin­ish­ing touches on an arti­cle about decid­ing between using thick clients (Word, Out­look) ver­sus thin clients (Google Docs, Gmail) on net­books, and a guy walks up to me and stares until I take out my ear­buds … Con­tinue read­ing →

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