I upgraded my game machine to support the new X-Plane version 9. It's a Core 2 duo, 3 Ghz with an NVidia 9600GT now. Runs X-Plane just fine.
Wednesday, 07 May, 2008. 05:01:40 PM
The caller ID information from the University of Texas is misspelled. It says "Univeristy." I don't know if that's just Alex's number or if it's everybody.
Wednesday, 30 April, 2008. 10:52:10 PM
ONCE AGAIN, I am forced to do the job that none of the conservative media will do. Yes, that's correct, the *conservative* media. I think these days pretty much everybody sees through the lie that the media is liberal. Even the most hard core of the Republicans know the score when they can name off 5 famous conservative media personalities, but when asked who the liberal is, come up short.
Anyway, with the Rev. Wright crapstorm, none of them have come anywhere near McCain's minister problem - Hagee. I won't go into details, but in a nutshell, Hagee is an enemy of all of us. He's a dominionist who would make his particular religion the law of the land, and would probably start a nuclear war to speed up armageddon. I don't intend that as a figure of speech. That's literally what dominionists and Christian reconstructionists believe.
Sunday, 27 April, 2008. 02:12:23 PM
Japanese Mud Balls also known as Dorodango
Monday, 21 April, 2008. 03:12:02 PM
When advising the boss, realize that the boss is making stuff up 25% of the time. Give the boss the next step. Their job is to take all kinds of opinions and information to make a good guess at what the next step should be. The boss will find someone who can offer a next step in the path to the goal valuable.
Friday, 18 April, 2008. 11:10:59 AM
From the Pentagon:
Globally, U.S. standing among friends and allies has fallen. Our status as a moral leader has been damaged by the war, the subsequent occupation of a Muslim nation, and various issues concerning the treatment of detainees. At the same time, operations in Iraq have had a negative impact on all other efforts in the war on terror, which must bow to the priority of Iraq when it comes to manpower, materiel, and the attention of decisionmakers. Our Armed Forces-especially the Army and Marine Corps-have been severely strained by the war in Iraq. Compounding all of these problems, our efforts there were designed to enhance U.S. national security, but they have become, at least temporarily, an incubator for terrorism and have emboldened Iran to expand its influence throughout the Middle East. As this case study is being written, despite impressive progress in security during the surge, the outcome of the war is in doubt.
... To date, the war in Iraq is a classic case of failure to adopt and adapt prudent courses of action that balance ends, ways, and means. After the major combat operation, U.S. policy has been insolvent, with inadequate means for pursuing ambitious ends. It is also a case where the perceived illegitimacy of our policy has led the United States to bear a disproportionate share of the war's burden. U.S. efforts in Iraq stand in stark contrast to the war in Afghanistan, where, to the surprise of many, U.S. friends and allies have recently taken up a larger share of the burden of that conflict. Afghanistan has become the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) war, but the war in Iraq has increasingly become only a U.S. and Iraqi struggle.
... The central finding of this study is that U.S. efforts in Iraq were hobbled by a set of faulty assumptions, a flawed planning effort, and a continuing inability to create security conditions in Iraq that could have fostered meaningful advances in stabilization, reconstruction, and governance. It is arguable whether the Iraqis will develop the wherewithal to create ethnic reconciliation and build a coherent national government. It is clear, however, that the United States and its partners have not done enough to create conditions in which such a development could take place. With the best of intentions, the United States toppled a vile, dangerous regime but has been unable to replace it with a stable entity. Mistakes in the Iraq operation cry out for improvements in the U.S. decisionmaking and policy execution systems. In turn, these improvements will require major changes in the legislative and executive branches, as well as in interagency processes.
Thursday, 17 April, 2008. 09:28:00 PM
Last night during the Democratic debate we saw the rollout of the Republican campaign against Obama. The level of questioning was at an all-time low, and focused on stupid trivial issues. Nobody was fooled, people are waking up to the distractions, and they don't like it. Through this spring and summer, just as soon as Hillary realizes she's beaten, it's just going to get worse and worse, but it's not going to work this time.
Wednesday, 16 April, 2008. 10:40:06 AM
Saturday, 12 April, 2008. 03:14:44 PM
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