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Problem is widespread as evidenced by 7 violent attacks in 7 Days at The Ohio State University campus
Often when the issue of safety on campus arises – typically due to news of a violent attack on or near campus like this one, the media and educators assert that they are shocked because “campus is supposed [...]
It dawned on me today that I hadn’t checked the criminal records search for the candidates in the OH-15 Congressional race. I’m sure the Republicans and Democrats vetted their candidates to ensure that there are no felonies or anything really embarrassing, but it never hurts to check – and sometimes you can gain insight into [...]
Here’s a rundown of some commentary on the issue. I got a kick out of this article about Krugman’s commentary on energy markets back in 2001. Here his understanding of the effects on Zoning on housing bubbles is applauded.
Reason has a short piece on the story along with links to some of their favorite articles [...]
In my spare time I do a lot of volunteer work and one of the organizations I volunteer with holds it’s meetings in an office building that is as close as I’ve found to a WiFi dead zone. There are three wireless networks available and all of them are secured (two of them are 2-Wire [...]
A few weeks ago Microsoft (MS) released Windows Live Wave 3 to public Beta. It didn’t take long for a few of the people on my contact list to start complaining. Here’s how the conversation started this morning:
10/9/2008 8:55:04 AM Stop opening windows on my desktop!!
As it turns out, I [...]
Sometime before Vista went RTM, I took advantage of a sale at a local retailer and picked up an ATI DV Wonder HDTV Tuner Card. It was supposedly one of the last tuner cards that didn’t support the “broadcast flag”. It’s been a while and I don’t remember the details, plus, it was a bit [...]
This weekend I spent some time getting familiar with Windows Media Center. An ATI Remote Wonder Plus came with my tuner card, so I plugged it in.
Vista automatically installed the software and said the device was "”ready to use”, but the remote still wasn’t working, so the next day I looked into the issue and [...]