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I’ve recently switched to the newest version of office. I don’t hate it other than the fact that once again everything seems slower. One thing that I can’t stand is the fact that there are a few commands I can’t find with the new sorry excuse for a toolbar. Hope this thing from office labs helps. I’ll let you know.

Warren Buffet isn’t always right, but this Fortune article titled, “Squanderville versus Thriftville” from 2003 was dead on in some respects. I can’t say I favor his solution of tarriffs, but it is still an interesting read.

That link reminds me of this presentation on the sub-prime crisis that I found informative.

If that didn’t cheer you up try this one, “The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke“.

Fitna the movie is out on YouTube now. I watched it. As a movie it wasn’t that great. it cherry picks some hateful speech and juxtaposes it with violent images. I’m not sure it deserves the press it is getting. I suppose the editing is ok and it’s always nice to see ideas “hoisted by their own petard.”

The reaction it is getting in certain parts of the world is the predictable condemnation, followed by governments wringing their hands wishing their citizens wouldn’t get the thin-skinned folks hopped up again. I’ve seen this news cycle before, I’m sure I’ll see it again.

Kudos to google/youtube for keeping the video up all weekend. I’m sure it’s been up on the servers long enough for them to have received numerous threats.

I installed the latest version of Movable Type which has now gone open source. I think it is working.

1. If you use a wet/dry vac to pick up something dry and then something wet, then you wait a year, the result is indistinguishable from compost.
2. If your cheap florescent light fixture is crapping out because the ballast is screwed up, it is cheaper and quicker to buy a new fixture instead of trying to find a new ballast of the right size and install it in the light.