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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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Comments: 4 Posted by david on 8 April 2008 at 5:06 PM
Everyone Gets an 'A'
My high school made it into my RSS feed today with news that the school district had lost all of the second semester grades. A bit odd that they apparently didn't bother with backups of any of this data.
Comments: 3 Posted by david on 1 April 2008 at 9:10 PM
You Should See the Other Guy
Charlie Rose decided that it was a better choice to stop a fall with his face than to drop his newly acquired MacBook Air. I'm not here to question that decision, but the picture above does make me wonder: does PBS not employ makeup artists?
Comments: 5 Posted by david on 18 March 2008 at 6:20 PM
HRC Thinks I'm Second-Class
I continue to be amazed that Hillary Clinton's campaign, in pushing the idea that some states are more important than others*, uses the phrase "second-class" to describe the delegates from these unimportant states. Their choice of language here is repugnant. Whether intnetionally or not, they seem to be invoking the idea of second-class citizens -- those in socitey who are routinely discriminated against, such as African-Americans more than forty years ago. Given the earlier racial politics of this campaign, I can't help but wonder if this is an intentional act of race baiting. Perhaps Hillary thinks the delegates from these so-call second-class states should only be given 3/5 of a vote?
* Aside from the extra value already attached to them as evidenced by their differing delegate counts.
Comments: 7 Posted by david on 18 February 2008 at 3:12 PM
Natural Doesn't Mean Good
Why do the eco-skeptics get so much traction by claiming the the current warming trend is a "natural" process? Regardless of whether you think global warming is a man-made problem or just part of a predictable cycle that also gave us such great time periods as the ice ages, the effect of the change in temperature doesn't seem to be in great dispute. Why is it that calling global warming a "natural" process is at all an argument against doing somethign about it?
We certainly don't think of other "natural" processes this way. Death is a "natural" process, for example. We certainly don't let its "naturalness" keep us from spending 16% of our GDP on trying to delay it as long as possible.
Comments: 11 Posted by david on 22 January 2008 at 11:51 AM