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April 20, 2011
Hello folks,I'm sure most of you folks are wondering who I am. Well, let me take a few minutes to give you a little more information about me...
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Bureaucrats and Technology - not a marriage made in heaven
Gadgets & Tech
July 20, 2010
Now that the World Cup is safely over it seems that it would be timely to consider some of the things that went wrong in it. Of course, what goes...
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Where is oil headed - $300 or $30 a barrel?
Gadgets & Tech
May 1, 2010
In the summer of 2008 the price of a barrel of oil rose to a high of about $130. It then dropped in early 2009 to just below $50 a barrel, and has...
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On Free Speech, Censorship, and Progressives
Gadgets & Tech
May 1, 2010
There has been much discussion lately about the decision by Comedy Central to censor an episode of South Park that mildly mocked Mohammed. Clearly,...
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Health Care, Technology, and Related Thoughts
Gadgets & Tech
March 21, 2010
As of writing this at about 3:45 pm Central time, it would appear that the White House has struck a deal with Rep. Stupak and other pro-life...
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Technology in Haiti
Gadgets & Tech
February 16, 2010
As noted before, technology can have consequences that go far beyond the initial appearance or purpose of that technology. Sometimes, of course,...
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Unintended and wholly unforeseen consequences
Gadgets & Tech
February 7, 2010
Some decades ago there was considerable, and appropriate, concern that the use of certain chemicals (some refrigerants, and some used in aerosol...
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Technology and Demonsheep
Gadgets & Tech
February 5, 2010
Just because you can do something, does not mean that you should! Developments in video cameras, software, the Internet and a host of related...
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The Iowa enigma - the wonders of data mining
Gadgets & Tech
February 3, 2010
Data mining is an extraordinarily powerful computing tool that allows us to examine typically large data sets and identify trends or linkages...
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Creative destruction via technology
Gadgets & Tech
February 3, 2010
One of the theories of economics, originally popularized by Joseph Schumpeter, is termed creative destruction. The idea behind this theory is that...
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