Monthly Archives: November 2002

confession: I snore

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 November 27 by Anton

My apnea has rather suddenly become too severe to ignore. At Google, the first paid link under ‘apnea’ advertises a widget that clips to the nasal septum. For $18, it would be pleasant to believe that it’s not mere quackery!

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eagerly reluctant

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 November 26 by Anton

Confessions Of An Isolationist Wannabe: John Hawkins writes on Right Wing News: Rarely a day passes on the internet without another article being written that claims America is a “hegemon”, that we’re like “like Rome,” or that we want to … Continue reading →

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Vlad the . . .

Posted on Monday, 2002 November 25 by Anton

Silly puns like this are only a small part of what you’re missing if you don’t read Soap on a Rope. Say not that I warned thee not.

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what are they up to?

Posted on Sunday, 2002 November 24 by Anton

I’ve long been puzzled by some of the 404s that appear in my logs. Does everyone get a steady trickle of requests to POST /cgi-bin/formmail.pl ?

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spoils

Posted on Friday, 2002 November 22 by Anton

John Weidner (Random Jottings) expresses something I had in mind: Suppose thousands, nay tens of thousands of Federal employees were replaced whenever the White House changed hands. The continuity of well-established procedures would be broken. But, so would the continuity … Continue reading →

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if we must have politicians . . .

Posted on Friday, 2002 November 22 by Anton

I’ve seen several comments, on as many sites, saying that automatic runoff elections (as used in Australia, I believe) would eliminate the problem of spoiler candidates. True, but I prefer approval voting, which is simpler, requiring only one procedural change: … Continue reading →

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backward compatibility

Posted on Friday, 2002 November 22 by Anton

Since I last looked, Richard Bennett has taken down the insulting “I don’t do Netscape 4” page. Good boy. (I primarily use 4.79 because 6.2.2 is much less graceful in handling mail and bookmarks.)

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