Bob Morris @ Dec 9th 2003 20:54 - Category: Unfiled ;
I’m in Hell
My flight from Hartford CT to Chicago was late, so I missed the connecting flight to L.A. Hence I’m typing this from a Ramada Inn near O’Hare airport and my flight tomorrow boards at 6:45 AM. Ugh.
I should be back to L.A. by late morning tomorrow
Bob Morris @ Dec 9th 2003 05:56 - Category: Unfiled ;
KaZaa and other spyware programs.
KaZaa is a file sharing program like Napster. It is “free”, however it loads huge amounts of spyware and ads on your computer. It is also deliberately difficult to deinstall. However PestPatrol explains how to do it.
PestPatrol, which I use, kills spyware, ad cookies, keyboard sniffers, and more. You should have a program like this on your computer.
If you get popup ads when your browser isn’t loaded, then you have adware on your computer. I recently de-spywared a computer that had dozens of such programs on it. So many pop-ad ads kept appearing that the machine was unusable.
Do NOT use KaZaa. It’s one of the worst offenders. PestPatrol deletes an average of 157 entries on each computer where KaZaa has been installed.
Bob Morris @ Dec 9th 2003 05:49 - Category: Unfiled ;
For once, I agree with Newt
Newt: “Only Iraqis can win in Iraq.â€. Newt Gingrich thinks the U.S. went ‘off a cliff’ in Iraq The military has been hitting hard lately in Iraq, using overwhelming firepower to kill the enemy in operations with videogame names like Iron Hammer and Ivy Cyclone II.
Bob Morris @ Dec 9th 2003 05:45 - Category: Unfiled ;
Dean is now the assumed candidate
Gore ‘backs Dean for Democrats’. The former vice president is to endorse Howard Dean as the US Democrats’ best choice to run in 2004.
This endorsement by Gore signifies that Howard Dean now has the support of large portions of the Democratic establishment, the same establishment that mocked and ignored Dean for months.
The Hartford (CT) Courant reports this morning that the endorsement is a serious slap in the face to Joe Lieberman, Gores’s running mate in 2000, who apparently learned the news from press reports and who was not notified in advance. Dean is now polling ahead of Kerry in Massachusetts, which is Kerry’s home state.
I’ve been following the Dean campaign for months. It’s been fascinating to watch him emerge out of nowhere to become the front runner, and his use of the Internet has been innovative and groundbreaking.
A Presidential campaign race between Bush and Dean will, among others things, be a battle between a traditional hierarchical campaign and a modern networked campaign. There have been books written on hierarchies vs. networks, ans the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. One major point to remember is that hierarchies have a difficult time understanding how networks operate, something which becomes a major advantage to networks.
Can Dean win? Yes, I absolutely think he has a serious chance of becoming President. as more and more people become repulsed by the extremism of George Bush. This is not the time to sit on the sidelines, now is the time to get involved.
Bob Morris @ Dec 9th 2003 05:27 - Category: Unfiled ;
Another day, another car bomb
Car Bomb Wounds 41 U.S. Troops in Iraq. Meanwhile, three U.S. soldiers died in an accident when an embankment collapsed beneath their armored personnel carriers north of Baghdad.
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