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People Political

No slam dunk

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Norm Jenson came out with an endorsement of John Edwards: John Edwards has announced his intention to run for President of the United States, that he is in favor of universal health care for every American is reason enough to support him, but equally important is that he is electable. I […]

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JavaScript

Prototype is not the de facto standard

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ajaxian has a pushback at Prototype criticism. Among the criticism is: A lot of javascript tutorials written today are based on the prototype framework. So, I thought it would be nice to see how other people use prototype.js . What I found is that the majority of people use it only because they […]

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Weblogging

The Giveaway

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I find it humorous that after the Blogger meeting with Bill Gates–where he walked into a room of bloggers, all of whom were using Apple laptops–Microsoft works with Acer to send out Windows laptops to webloggers. As Jeneane notes, primarily male webloggers (and I’ve not seen anything among the ASP.NET webloggers about […]

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People

Passing

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I can’t say that I’m a fan of either Gerald Ford or James Brown, but in the end I don’t think either gentleman got the credit they deserve for their contributions in life. Gerald Ford will go down in history as the man who pardoned Nixon, but oddly enough I […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs

Where’s the harm

I was asked in comments associated with the post on Judge Dierker, what’s the harm in someone saying something offensive. Read the original story in the Riverfront Times about the woman and the case that forms the basis for the first chapter in Judge Dierker’s book. Then tell me: do you see harm?