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Hiatus 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Samuel Johnson once said that when a man was tired of London, he was tired of life. Samuel Johnson was...

MyAppleMenu Is On Hiatus

MyAppleMenu Is On Hiatus 03/22/2005 04:33 PM

This website is taking a break, and there will be no updates until Monday, 28 March 2004.

What am I doing? I'll be back in the army for my reservist duty -- 4 days, 3 nights. After that, I'll just relax and think about the future of this website. (If you have any suggestions, please feel free to e-mail me.)

Mostly on hiatus until November 2,
helping Get Out The Vote

Mostly on hiatus until November 2,
helping Get Out The Vote 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
I have taken a temporary position as a project manager for a small company that sponsored some innovative open-source software that I worked on a bit as a volunteer. The company contracts with a number of large partisan and non-partisan membership organizations to host (and adapt the software they've built) for the organizations' Get Out The Vote efforts between now and November 2. Talk about a fixed deadline. It's crazed, and it pays considerably less than I made starting as a software project manager 15 years ago, but it is work of the heart, well worth doing. It is too late to do much about the voting machines this election cycle, but at least we can try and get everybody out to vote. I've lived in several countries where governments were not chosen by elections, and I take our right to elect our representatives very seriously, and hope you will to. If you need an emotional demonstration of the reason to vote, click the graphic at the right and watch the powerful short movie. It is our country, and we get to decide who its leaders are. I don't care if you agree with my political opinions or if you think that George Bush is the greatest thing since sliced bologna. Please exercise your right and duty to educate yourself on the issues and candidates and to vote on November 2. As you might guess, I'll be working a bit more than 40 hours a week between now and November 2, averaging about 16 hours a day so far this week, so I suspect I won't be doing much writing here, or reading blogs elsewhere, although I may post the odd comment here or there. I hope to see you at the polls on November 2....

HIATUS
AHEAD

HIATUS
AHEAD 09/17/2004 01:48 PM

I'm off on my first vacation in four years. I will try to blog and keep up with e-mails while I'm away, but don't know what the technology will offer, so I make no promises until I return on the 27th. In the meantime, reader Pam Sykes just sent me a wonderful article by Tom Atlee at the Co-Intelligence Institute called Crisis Fatigue and the Creation of Positive Possibilities. Very inspiring. Love and Peace, /-/ Dave

Forced compassion

Forced compassion 01/01/2005 12:52 PM
From Reuters: CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush, under pressure over the pace and scale of American aid to Asian tsunami victims, abruptly raised the U.S. contribution to $350 million on Friday, 10 times the amount pledged just two days ago. Good. That's up a lot from the ludicrous $4M we offered five days ago, the boost to a shameful $15M, and the upping of that to the merely disgraceful $35M. It's still not nearly enough from a country that claims to be the world's economic, military and moral leader; before the election, Congress allotted $13.6 billion to rebuild states...

Computer Associates CEO forced out

Computer Associates CEO forced out 04/22/2004 11:56 AM
Boston Globe Apr 22 2004 3:53PM GMT

Will internet chat be forced to pay the
tax man?

Will internet chat be forced to pay the
tax man? 07/27/2004 07:30 AM
Silicon.com Jul 27 2004 10:52AM GMT

Norway's oil strike forced to end

Norway's oil strike forced to end 06/25/2004 07:03 AM
The Norwegian government intervenes to halt an industrial dispute that had threatened to halt the country's oil production.

Google Forced Into Buyback

Google Forced Into Buyback 08/04/2004 11:45 PM
Washington Post Aug 5 2004 4:04AM GMT

TeacherReviews.com Forced Offline

TeacherReviews.com Forced Offline 02/10/2004 10:40 PM

Fox-Pitt forced to withdraw

Fox-Pitt forced to withdraw 08/18/2004 01:01 AM
William Fox-Pitt pulls out of the GB eventing team after his horse Tamarillo is injured.

Two Top Execs at Fannie Mae Forced Out
(AP)

Two Top Execs at Fannie Mae Forced Out
(AP) 12/22/2004 01:21 AM
AP - The chief executive and top financial officer at mortgage giant Fannie Mae were forced out of the company Tuesday as the nation's second largest financial institution struggled to deal with revelations of serious financial reporting problems.

SCO Forced To Show Evidence

SCO Forced To Show Evidence 12/06/2003 08:42 AM
SiliconValley.Internet.com Dec 6 2003 6:25AM ET

has forced him to shut down the project

has forced him to shut down the project 12/12/2003 05:39 AM
$5000 DIY Cruise Missle Project Halted .. now reports .. Turns out

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3302763.stm
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Rush's forced conscripts

Rush's forced conscripts 05/26/2004 07:40 AM
American Forces Radio fires a daily barrage of Rush Limbaugh at its million uniformed listeners. So why are liberals kept off the military's airwaves?

Will Apple Be Forced To Licence Its DRM?

Will Apple Be Forced To Licence Its DRM? 06/17/2005 03:37 PM

Ericsson alliance with Napster could force its hand. By Tony Dennis, The Inquirer

Computer Associates CEO Forced to Resign

Computer Associates CEO Forced to Resign 04/21/2004 06:30 PM
AP via Daily Press Apr 21 2004 11:22PM GMT

BNP forced to edit election film

BNP forced to edit election film 05/28/2004 10:50 AM
Five refuses to show a BNP election broadcast over fears it will stir up racial hatred.

Interplay Forced to Liquidate (France)

Interplay Forced to Liquidate (France) 01/05/2005 10:18 PM

Train firm forced to cut services

Train firm forced to cut services 12/26/2004 12:50 PM
Central Trains issues an emergency timetable as an overtime agreement comes to an end.

BBC forced to curb internet expansion

BBC forced to curb internet expansion 07/05/2004 08:46 PM
Telegraph Jul 6 2004 0:43AM GMT

"has not been forced to turn to
freelance work"

"has not been forced to turn to
freelance work" 04/15/2005 04:43 AM

Forced pensions face pay hurdle

Forced pensions face pay hurdle 08/30/2004 07:21 PM
Three quarters of people in the UK welcome compulsory pensions but not if they have to pay more, a study says.

Forced patriotism on the press platform

Forced patriotism on the press platform 07/29/2004 04:56 PM

CompUSA forced to pay overdue rebates

CompUSA forced to pay overdue rebates 03/14/2005 04:51 PM
Still waiting after three years for a rebate from CompUSA or Q.P.S.? A check could soon be in the mail, thanks to the Federal Trade Commission

Legal wrangle over forced burial

Legal wrangle over forced burial 07/29/2004 11:34 AM
A man threatens legal action to prevent his mother being buried more than four years after her death.

Drug Farms Forced Underground

Drug Farms Forced Underground 05/27/2004 06:32 AM
Companies that want to make drugs by growing them in plants have met a lot of resistance, but at least one is keeping up the fight -- from an Indiana quarry. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Article in Guardian about why the US
should be forced out of Iraq

Article in Guardian about why the US
should be forced out of Iraq 05/02/2004 11:21 AM

An interesting article in The Guardian about what we should do in Iraq. She argues that the UN should not support the US in Iraq and should join the mutiny against the US and force the US out of Iraq.

Naomi Klein, Saturday May 1, 2004, The Guardian

M utiny is the only way out of Iraq's inferno

The UN betrayed Iraq by becoming the political arm of US occupation. Now it must redeem itself

Can we please stop calling it a quagmire? The United States isn't mired in a bog in Iraq, or a marsh; it is free-falling off a cliff. The only question now is: who will follow the Bush clan off this precipice, and who will refuse to jump?

More and more are, thankfully, choosing the second option. The last month of US aggression in Iraq has inspired what can only be described as a mutiny: waves of soldiers, workers and politicians under the command of the US occupation authority suddenly refusing to follow orders and abandoning their posts. First Spain announced that it would withdraw its troops, then Honduras, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Kazakhstan. South Korean and Bulgarian troops were pulled back to their bases, while New Zealand is withdrawing its engineers. El Salvador, Norway, the Netherlands and Thailand will likely be next.

[...]

There is a way that the UN can redeem itself in Iraq: it could choose to join the mutiny, further isolating the United States. This would help to force Washington to hand over real power - ultimately to Iraqis, but first to a multilateral coalition that did not participate in the invasion and occupation and would have the credibility to oversee direct elections. This could work, but only through a process that fiercely protects Iraq's sovereignty.

via Martin Varsavsky

Will Open Source Be Forced To Go
Proprietary?

Will Open Source Be Forced To Go
Proprietary? 12/11/2003 05:03 PM

Bush Forced to Fight for La. Votes (AP)

Bush Forced to Fight for La. Votes (AP) 05/21/2004 01:08 AM
AP - President Bush, forced to defend a Deep South state he comfortably won four years ago, is trying to offset the attention Democratic rival John Kerry is lavishing on Louisiana.

Shell finance chief is forced out

Shell finance chief is forced out 04/19/2004 02:52 AM
Judy Boynton, Royal Dutch/Shell's finance director, resigns as the oil giant makes further downward revisions of its oil reserves.

Slashdot | TeacherReviews.com Forced
Offline

Slashdot | TeacherReviews.com Forced
Offline 02/10/2004 10:37 PM
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/11/0112229 from the thin-skin-for-teacher dept. MrCawfee writes "Dylan Greene's site Teacher Reviews which allows students to post reviews of their professors. The site was taken down because a professor complained about comments made against him, and threatened to sue. Here is an exerpt from his blog: 'Yesterday and tonight I talked with a professor who was extremely upset with what written about him on TeacherReviews. He had...

Software makers forced to issue their
own fixes

Software makers forced to issue their
own fixes 07/27/2004 09:29 AM

Democrats Forced To Work on Margins
(washingtonpost.com)

Democrats Forced To Work on Margins
(washingtonpost.com) 12/23/2003 07:18 AM

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20172-2003Dec21.html
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Can AOL Be Forced To Put Safe Sex
Notices In Chat Rooms?

Can AOL Be Forced To Put Safe Sex
Notices In Chat Rooms? 01/22/2004 08:57 AM
An interesting battle is brewing between some health officials and AOL. The health officials are worried that people using chat rooms to set up real-life sexual encounters aren't doing anything to protect themselves during sex, and its leading to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases. Thus, they're trying to sue AOL to force them to put up safe-sex messages on those chat rooms. From a general community standpoint, that seems to make sense, but AOL has pretty good reasons for not doing it. As they point out, they're just setting up an open chat room system that anyone can use to chat about anything. They don't have the capability to determine which chat rooms are being used for these purposes, and they point out that users may get upset if they feel they're being spied on in some way. At the same time, there's simply no legal basis under which AOL should be compelled to post such a warning. Of course, taking a step back from all that, would anyone actually pay attention to such a warning?

Sony forced to rethink Librié
concept

Sony forced to rethink Librié
concept 12/19/2004 03:34 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Andreas Bovens sez: On July 2, 2004, Boing Boing reported about the Sony Librie e-book reader, which sports an awesome e-ink display, but is full of restrictive DRM bloat. In a desperate (?) attempt to boost sales of the Librié, Sony recently started offering downloads for converting your own documents to the Librié's BBeB format, meaning that you now can read Project Gutenberg or Aozora Bunko books on your Librie! (As far as I know, reports so far are only in Japanese, hence a link to my own blog entry about it.)"

Now all it needs is a backlight and the capability to sync with a Mac, and I'll buy one no matter how much it costs. Link

Should Apple be forced to open up iPod
and iTunes?

Should Apple be forced to open up iPod
and iTunes? 08/06/2004 06:39 PM
Real and France's Virgin claim that they deserve to be able to sell their music on Apple's iPod. To prove they're serious, Virgin Mega has filed a complaint against Apple to do so. Perhaps I'm missing something here, but last I checked it wasn't anybody's responsibility to open up their product or service to purposely allow the competition in. That is, of course, unless the government steps in. Are Real and Virgin Mega just being whiny little brats, angered that they're not invited to the party? What are legitimate reasons for the legal system to get involved and to rule in favor of such plaintiffs? While the obvious Microsoft may come to mind, are there other examples you can think of? As for me, I'd like to hand out copies of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead" to both Real and Virgin Mega...

321Studios forced out of business by
Media Mafia

321Studios forced out of business by
Media Mafia 08/09/2004 08:30 PM

I have been mulling this over for a few days and am saddened that another company has been destroyed by the Mafia like organizations that went after them in the courts for giving consumers the tools to allow fair use of media that they own.

I have to give the men and women that worked at 321 Studios a Bronze Star for taking a bullet and fighting to the very last. I only wished that they had survived the legal battle. [www.321studios.com]

Family forced to sell WWII medal

Family forced to sell WWII medal 04/19/2004 05:40 AM
A legal dispute over a will has stopped a family donating their father's Victoria Cross to a museum.
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