Author: brice

“Why, of course, the people don’t want war,” Goering shrugged. “Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in…

Saw this guy on C-span last night. I don’t buy everything he says. He does give a great presentation. Its just so nice to see someone who talks straight about what they think and about what they expect to happen in the future. He views the global security issues of the future as a relationship…

Whenever you take advice from an expert, its important to remember that just because people can write clearly, doesn’t mean they have all the answers and don’t make mistakes . Mr. Sink has written a nice article (which was /.’ed) on how to price software and then only weeks after it was published admits he…

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Well that all seems like a good idea. It not…

As an update to this . I can now report that a CD player is $9.97 at WalMart. This is several dollars lower than the cost of a new CD. Ok. Lets say the Chinese child slave labor that puts this together is paid $0 and the people working at walmart are paid $0. Even…

Joel has a new book. Like his book on ui design, its basically a bunch of his columns bound together but since I feel the same way about Joel’s work on programming as I do about tolstoy’s on religion, I’ve already one-clicked it.

Bill has been making some good comments about evils of MMO games on his blog. One of the most evil aspects of MMO games is how they can dominate your real life. With devices like TIVO we have finally taken some control of our lives back from the television. We can stop the show to…

I’m the last person anyone should take investment advice from, but I got some good advice recently to share. “If you want to reduce volatility in your portfolio, check it less often.”

I recently had my Sony DSC-P1 digital camera stolen while in Zion. We drove to the nearest town and purchased a P93. Its pretty fun because it actualy takes decent movies [12.1MB]. I think my favorite thing I like about it tho is that it can take normal AAs when you haven’t be able to…

This is a nice site to track the current polls in the the presidental race. Hmm. rsjm just commented that this one is better. It sure is more purdy.