In the years since I’ve been signing petitions, a curious phenomena has occurred in my inbox. 99% of my emails are now requests for donations. So many of the causes are worthy, most often non-profit organizations trying to fund their legislative activities, but it’s still disturbing to realize the Internet has been transformed from an…
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Continue readingDo Public Schools Need to Save Money?
Debian GNU/Linux “Lenny” 5.0 released as stable. Highly recommended!
Continue readingSchool District Funding, high-speed Internet service?
Could local school districts get grants to become competitive broadband ISPs to their surrounding communities?
Continue readingA great little Stay on Top utility…
The other day I was looking for a way to keep a window on top while entering its values in another window, and laying both windows side by side wasn’t the best option for one of the windows. So, I started searching for a Stay on Top utility. PowerMenu adds a right click menu to…
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Some modifications you can make to WordPress 2.1.2 to help proofread your posts before publishing them.
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How to add a third font to the Write Post page of WordPress 1.5.2
Continue readingComplicated voting machines!
Alternate title: My first experience of voting on a Direct Recording Electronic or DRE device. On Nov 7, 2006, upon arrival at the polling place with completed sample ballot in hand, unfamiliar voting machines were visible from the doorway. I asked the poll workers if paper ballots were available. They were! They asked me if…
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Win98 security patch
Now that Microsoft is no longer supporting Win98SE, where will people get security patches as they become necessary? Via cnet.com, one such third-party Win98 security patch source is calling themselves the Zero Day Emergency Response Team, or ZERT.
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