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August 28, 2008

Internet Comments ain't what they used to be

I was one of the first people to use a public service to access the Internet. Way back in 1992, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Elvis had yet to build the pyramids, a little company called Delphi offered service...

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August 22, 2008

Okay Punk, I like Dirty Harry

With the weekend coming up and my being out of town, I decided to buy a couple of movies to watch in my corporate apartment. As I went through the aisles at Best Buy, there was one movie collection that...

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August 21, 2008

Okay, I hate the Manifesto

I'm an Agile Coach. And as a coach, I'm supposed to be, well, agile. And coach-like. So I get a whistle and say things like "one more remark like that, Jones, and you'll be running laps this afternoon" For some...

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August 7, 2008

Libertarian Reading

Is stealing ever right? If by "steal" you mean "the use of force to transfer wealth against somebody's will" then we do it all the time -- it's called taxes. (If you have another definition of stealing I'd be interested...

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August 5, 2008

Books over the weekend

I took the weekend off from coding and thought I would get caught up on some business-related reading. This is a really good idea because I'm currently about 40 books behind. My stack is getting as tall as I am....

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