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Bush Aims to Solidify His Base (Los
Angeles Times)

Bush Aims to Solidify His Base (Los
Angeles Times) 08/22/2004 05:46 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Even as President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry cross each other's tracks through the same battleground states, their strategies for winning November's election appear to be diverging.

A rift among the Hillary haters

A rift among the Hillary haters 06/22/2005 02:04 AM
Hey, Dick Morris, jealous much?

Tripping The Rift Returns

Tripping The Rift Returns 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
The Star Wars-inspired fan-made 3D animated short film Tripping the Rift has been gone for awhile now, but makes its return tonight in a new Sci-Fi Channel series. Look for some new characters added to the line-up, and no doubt a toned-down theme from its earlier incarnation, but science fiction fans should definitely check it out. Click on the thumbnail above to check out the show's official site.

Can Anglican rift be resolved?

Can Anglican rift be resolved? 03/23/2005 07:49 AM
The Scottish Episcopal Church has said that being a practising homosexual is not a bar to becoming a priest. Send us your comments.

BT shrugs off reports of boardroom rift

BT shrugs off reports of boardroom rift 01/19/2004 01:45 AM
The Scotsman Jan 19 2004 5:37AM GMT

Rift keeps Briton's fate unclear

Rift keeps Briton's fate unclear 09/22/2004 12:12 PM
The fate of a British hostage remains unclear amid conflicting reports around the release of an Iraqi prisoner.

Rift Over Global Info Control

Rift Over Global Info Control 12/10/2003 05:45 AM
Developing countries resent what they see as American dominance over information technology. They'd like to see the Internet placed under U.N. control. The United States and its industrialized allies disagree.

Powell tries to repair rift with France

Powell tries to repair rift with France 07/14/2004 02:57 PM

Prescott reveals Blair-Brown rift

Prescott reveals Blair-Brown rift 05/14/2004 11:59 PM
In a newspaper interview, John Prescott admits relations between the prime minister and Gordon Brown "broke down".

Internet widens rift between political
left, right

Internet widens rift between political
left, right 06/28/2004 05:25 AM
Chron.com - Mon Jun 28, 06:52 am GMT

U.S. and Europe Must Mend Rift Over
Iraq, Cheney Says

U.S. and Europe Must Mend Rift Over
Iraq, Cheney Says 01/24/2004 02:53 PM
Vice President Dick Cheney called Saturday for the United States and its European allies to bridge their differences over Iraq.

Aslef leader warns of union rift

Aslef leader warns of union rift 04/15/2004 10:22 PM
The leader of Britain's biggest train drivers' union says he has lost day-to-day control because of a power struggle.

Transatlantic Rift Deepens Over Iraq
Contracts

Transatlantic Rift Deepens Over Iraq
Contracts 12/11/2003 12:07 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 11 2003 10:42AM ET

Nato seeks to heal Iraq war rift

Nato seeks to heal Iraq war rift 06/27/2004 10:54 PM
Nato leaders are set to agree to a plan to train Iraqi armed forces, in a show of unity for the alliance.

Survey Finds Transatlantic Rift
Hardening

Survey Finds Transatlantic Rift
Hardening 09/09/2004 02:00 AM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 9 2004 5:15AM GMT

Rift delays Iraqi president talks

Rift delays Iraqi president talks 05/31/2004 04:11 AM
Talks to discuss who should be Iraq's president are delayed amid reports of disagreement between the US and Iraqis.

Soldier's Death Causes Rift in Illinois
Family

Soldier's Death Causes Rift in Illinois
Family 11/14/2003 02:53 PM
"George Bush killed my son." With these words, peace activist Rosemary Slavenas buried her son, Brian, a National Guardsman and "great, big kid" killed in the downing of a Chinook helicopter in Iraq. A tragic story of an Illinois family split in two by the death of their son, who received two funerals -- one military, with honors, and the other, with strong words for the current administration.

Stem Cell Rift in Golden State

Stem Cell Rift in Golden State 06/05/2005 11:18 PM
Wired News Jun 6 2005 3:00AM GMT

Behind Life-and-Death Fight, a Rift That
Began Years Ago

Behind Life-and-Death Fight, a Rift That
Began Years Ago 03/25/2005 11:11 PM
As Terri Schiavo lay dying in a hospice, a transfixed nation wondered how a 12-year-old fight ever became so bad.

Israel's Sharon Under Pressure at Home
Amid U.S. Rift

Israel's Sharon Under Pressure at Home
Amid U.S. Rift 12/05/2003 07:48 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 5 2003 7:09AM ET

Iraq's Rebellion Develops Signs of
Internal Rift

Iraq's Rebellion Develops Signs of
Internal Rift 07/10/2004 12:56 PM
Tension appears to be rising between the homegrown Iraqi resistance and the foreign Islamist fighters who have entered the country to destroy the American military.

MyDoom reignites the rift between lusers
and the tech-savvy

MyDoom reignites the rift between lusers
and the tech-savvy 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
Technophiles are showing more anger towards those they believe are not making efforts to learn more about technology.

Politicians Face Bishops' Censure in
Abortion Rift

Politicians Face Bishops' Censure in
Abortion Rift 06/18/2004 11:55 PM
The nation's Roman Catholic bishops approved a statement that brands politicians who support abortion rights as "cooperating in evil."

Courting Allies, Bush Ends Rift With the
Turks

Courting Allies, Bush Ends Rift With the
Turks 06/27/2004 08:45 PM
On the eve of a two-day NATO summit meeting that will be dominated by Iraq, President Bush concentrated on the theme of reconciliation.

Bush Seeks to Heal Iraq Rift at EU-U.S.
Summit (Reuters)

Bush Seeks to Heal Iraq Rift at EU-U.S.
Summit (Reuters) 06/25/2004 09:50 PM
Reuters - President Bush hopes a U.S.-European Union summit on Saturday will help repair the damage to transatlantic ties from the Iraq war, but his visit has sparked protests in Ireland.

Senate Rift Deep in Debate Over Attorney
General Nominee

Senate Rift Deep in Debate Over Attorney
General Nominee 02/01/2005 08:59 PM
A final Senate vote, at first considered likely today, is now not expected until at least Thursday.

Saudi Promise to Increase Output Creates
OPEC Rift

Saudi Promise to Increase Output Creates
OPEC Rift 05/23/2004 04:51 PM
Saudi Arabia's promise to increase its oil output and its call for increased production quotas from OPEC is creating a rare public rift in the group.

GOP's Philosophical Rift Evident in
Pennsylvania (Los Angeles Times)

GOP's Philosophical Rift Evident in
Pennsylvania (Los Angeles Times) 04/18/2004 05:42 AM
Los Angeles Times - PHILADELPHIA — While President Bush's reelection bid has inspired impressive Republican unity around the country, a GOP family feud in a crucial state could hurt him politically and harm the party's chances of retaining its Senate majority.

Kerry Seeks Gain from Bush Rift with
Rights Group (Reuters)

Kerry Seeks Gain from Bush Rift with
Rights Group (Reuters) 07/12/2004 02:12 PM
Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry tried to capitalize on growing rancor between the White House and civil rights leaders on Monday by accusing President Bush of ignoring racial and economic inequalities in the United States.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Powell aides go public on rift with Bush

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Powell aides go public on rift with Bush 05/07/2004 06:23 AM
Guardian Unlimited Special reports Powell aides go public on rift with Bush .. fed up

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Bush opens new rift over Middle East
plan

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Bush opens new rift over Middle East
plan 06/10/2004 08:19 AM
Guardian Unlimited Special reports Bush opens new rift over Middle East plan .. BUSH: OUR MIDDLE EAST MISSION HAS JUST BEGUN .. from the Guardian (UK) .. indifference

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Rift grows as Iranians caught fighting
for Sadr

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Rift grows as Iranians caught fighting
for Sadr 08/13/2004 03:52 PM
"We are checking their identities but if they are found to have links to the Iranians then that would be tantamount to a declaration of war by them,"

guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1282215,00.html
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Rapid application development tools,
part 3: More RAD tools

Rapid application development tools,
part 3: More RAD tools 02/13/2004 09:19 AM
In parts 1 and 2 of this series I discussed database front end development tools and RAD environments for the BASIC language on Linux. I'll conclude by looking at tools for smaller programming languages (I won't talk about C++/KDevelop/Anjuta or Java/Eclipse) and little-known or independently developed languages.

Digidesign Ships Pro Tools TDM 6.4.1
Software for Pro Tools|24 MIX

Digidesign Ships Pro Tools TDM 6.4.1
Software for Pro Tools|24 MIX 09/02/2004 11:16 PM
Digidesign Pro ToolsŪ TDM 6.4.1 software for Pro Tools|24 MIX ships today. Pro Tools TDM 6.4.1 offers new feature enhancements and is the final Pro Tools software release to support the Pro Tools|24 MIX product line.

Programming Tools: UML Tools

Programming Tools: UML Tools 06/05/2005 11:10 PM
The results of a simple standards-based test of some popular UML tools.

WdS Tools

WdS Tools 05/13/2004 12:39 PM
First release of WdSMap

OOo Tools

OOo Tools 07/10/2004 10:21 AM
v1.0 (Initial Release)

TOOLS SET 1.0

TOOLS SET 1.0 05/20/2004 08:29 PM
Aqua-like tools icons.

GM Tools

GM Tools 06/03/2004 06:45 AM
GM Tools version 0-1-0 (development) has been released.
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Road-Tripping

Road-Tripping 02/12/2004 05:01 PM
Transport company revenues stand as a revealing economic indicator.

The Tripping Point

The Tripping Point 02/12/2004 07:37 PM
Joe Trippi at an Emerging Technology Teach-In spoke to his Internet troops. He came to teach them about a fateful moment in the campaign, where the Net movement disconnected from Dean's condition. But he also told them: you made us. You are changing American politics. And it's still about the money.

Tripping on their own feeble arguments

Tripping on their own feeble arguments 02/01/2005 09:42 PM
The Social Security debate continues to be infuriating. Pardon me while I release some smoke from the top of my pate.

There are a number of strange arguments floating around out there as part of the desperate effort to try to get the American people to buy President Bush's Social Security pig-in-a-fiscal-poke. Something happens when you put these arguments side by side: They undermine one another.

Consider, if you will, this comment from someone named Craig on my most recent Social Security post. As far as I can tell, Craig has cut-and-pasted big chunks of long quotes from two different Washington Times columns into his comment, one by Thomas Sowell and another by John Palffy. (I'll write off the failure to attribute these quotes to oversight since the commenter does say "Please read the following info.")

Sowell argues that the Social Security Trust Fund is a mere "legal and accounting fiction" because one arm of the government is putting its excess cash into the hands of another, in the form of the IOUs known as Treasury bonds. As I and others keep noting, the idea that Treasury bonds are mere fictions is one that would be news to the vast number of institutions and individuals around the world who consider them the bluest of blue chip investments. What this argument really says is that the government doesn't have to make good on those bonds -- they're just a "fiction" -- when they're purchased with our Social Security taxes, set aside to handle the future shortfalls of the system, and held in trust for the retirements of America's working people. The U.S. government would never default on the bonds purchased by another country's central bank -- but hey, if the American people put their retirement money in such a form, the government is sure to renege on the debt. We're so sure it's going to renege that we're getting ready to ditch the most successful and beloved U.S. government program in history.

Why will the government default? Apparently, we're to believe, because it can. "Liberals are desperate to keep Social Security as it is, because that would mean they can continue spending your money as they see fit," Sowell writes. Funny, though; the money was fine until Bush's conservatives started cutting taxes four years ago. "Our money" was frittered away not by "liberals" but by the current administration -- on dividend tax cuts, estate tax cuts, wars of choice and other elective policies. Those policies could be reversed as easily, maybe more easily, than privatizing Social Security.

But this all gets more interesting in the second half of Craig's post, where he moves from Sowell's argument to Palffy's. Palffy wants us to put aside the silly notion that privatization means our retirement funds will be at risk. How foolish to imagine that there is any reason to worry about placing Social Security money in private markets rather than in the government's hands! But since the pesky AARP is stirring up those excitable seniors again, Palffy has a plan to soothe our graying hairs: Why, we can require that all those private (excuse me, "personal") accounts invest their money in one safe place. That ultra-reliable investment? Inflation-protected Treasury bonds!

So much for the idea that private accounts restore free-market choice. Under this plan, Social Security pretty much remains exactly the same, except that there are little chunks of money in Treasury bonds that have our names on them instead of one big chunk of bonds with Social Security's name on it. The government is still holding all that money for us, and if we're to believe Sowell and his ilk, the government can't resist getting its greedy Big Government paws on any money in sight, so there's just as much reason under the new plan as under the existing one to expect the perfidious liberals in Congress (despite their minority status!) to default on its obligations.

This round-trip doesn't get us very far at all, does it? The spinning is desperate, contradictory, ultimately inane. That's what happens when your stated plans of "reform" don't match your actual goal (eliminating Social Security). Or maybe the Washington Times' columnists, and their advocates among the population of blog commenters, need new marching orders from the White House: They did such a good job on the "private/personal" switcheroo.

In the end, there's one thing I can agree with the conservatives on: Social Security is only as safe as the lawmakers in Washington allow it to be. Sowell & co. say we must fear because we can't trust the government to keep Social Security afloat. But the government he is telling us will betray Social Security isn't in the hands of the "liberals" upon whom his finger points. It is the Bush administration that has endangered Social Security, and it is the Bush administration that now wishes to end Social Security as we know it. It may get its way. But let's make sure the American people understand who's responsible for the ensuing debacle.

Tripping the Light Fantastic

Tripping the Light Fantastic 05/01/2004 07:46 AM
So now that Menu Master 1.1.1 is ready for release (it is a download link, that it is) and will...

Socorro Road Tripping

Socorro Road Tripping 10/29/2003 01:15 AM
My girlfriend Karen and I recently went on a road trip in and around Socorro, New Mexico. The first shot was taken by Karen, the rest by me....

PressThink: The Tripping Point

PressThink: The Tripping Point 02/13/2004 07:57 PM
Joe Trippi and the Dean campaign .. analysis of Joe Trippi's comments .. Jay on Etech .. latest essay

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Tripping on Internet Populism

Tripping on Internet Populism 02/16/2004 08:12 PM
The Nation Feb 17 2004 0:35AM GMT

Trivial Road Tripping

Trivial Road Tripping 12/03/2003 12:37 AM

Heeeeeeey, Kate - I think I've found our entertainment for next week's trip to Springfield!!

TRIVI AL PURSUIT® for Palm OS

"The world's most popular trivia game is now available for users of Palm Powered handheld devices. With incredible new game features, the TRIVIAL PURSUIT® Handheld Edition rewards the clever, while still highlighting everyone's trivia talents. The game features over 1600 questions in six categories- Sports and Leisure, Arts and Entertainment, History, Science and Nature, People and Places, and Wild Card.

In Classic mode, players of the board game will find comfort in its familiarity, while experiencing the benefits of automated card selection, rolls of the die and token movement. Flash mode offers a ladder-style version of the TRIVIAL PURSUIT® game in which one to six players take turns answering questions. Players move up the ladder with every correct answer and the first player to reach the top rung and answer the final questions is the winner. Play in single player mode or against two to six opponents in local hot seat mode and multiplayer" [Handango]

I'm particularly intrigued by the following two interactive options, especially since I'll be playing this on my Treo 600!

• "Multiplayer support of 2-6 players over Bluetooth and IR (Infra-red)
• Multiplayer lobby offers a meeting place for a networked game including chat among players"

BOFH: Tripping the mangelfreuzer switch

BOFH: Tripping the mangelfreuzer switch 08/11/2004 05:02 AM
Episode 25 Crash, bang, wallop

Racing Its Rivals, I.B.M. Risks Tripping
Itself Up

Racing Its Rivals, I.B.M. Risks Tripping
Itself Up 04/15/2005 11:14 PM
I.B.M.'s disappointing earnings report points to the risk in the company's strategy for its corporate services business.

Programs that write programs

Programs that write programs 02/11/2004 10:54 AM
Following pointers from Ned Batchelder's recent excursion into code generation led me to another nice example of the power of dynamic languages. In order to streamline his use of C++, Ned wrote a little tool called cog which enables him to embed, in C++ programs, Python fragments that generate verbose and/or repetitive C++ constructs. He adds:

For more about code generation in general, try:

• Dave Thomas interviewed about code generation. Dave Thomas is one of the Pragmatic Programmers, and I find I agree with him almost universally. He forbids putting the output of code generators under source control, I encourage it. We agree that the output should never be edited.
• The Code Generation page on the c2 wiki. As will happen with a wiki, this fractures off in many directions, with many different viewpoints, both for and against code generation.

[ Ned Batchelder]

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