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Google hits a speed bump on the road to world domination

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Google’s quest to swallow the internet whole has hit a snag.  Google wants to acquire DoubleClick Inc. (an internet ad system company), but Congress may be saying hold on a sec.
In a July 16 letter to the Federal Trade Commission, which is investigating the deal, Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who chairs the House subcommittee, wrote [...]

Software Industry Conference 2007 Mini-Review

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Last week, we packed up the family and drove to Denver for SIC 2007. The Software Industry Conference is an annual conference geared towards independent software developers and vendors.
As usual, there were some very helpful sessions. Dave Collins and Thomas Wetzel convinced me to give Google AdWords yet another try with their insights. There were several sessions [...]

Moving from Blogger to WordPress

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

For more than four years now I’ve been running this blog with Blogger. Today I’ve finished the bulk of the work involved in moving to WordPress. It might be a few days before all the loose ends are tied up.
The limitations of Blogger:
Blogger isn’t a bad blog tool, but it’s simply not advanced enough to [...]

Emotions Trump Reality

Monday, July 9th, 2007

A brain researcher is advising Democrats that they need to focus on voters’ emotions in order to win debates.
There’s nothing surprising about this. I’ve always thought that the liberal line is based entirely on appeal to emotion, rather than a rational view of factual evidence.
What’s more cushy to say: “everyone deserves health coverage” or “the [...]

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