Good morning…oh, wait, it’s afternoon already on the east coast. Darn! Well, here’s a soupçon of linkage for your weekend. Oh, no, please, don’t thank me.

How Offshore Outsourcing Failed Us (a PDF download)This is from an October 2003 magazine article, but I’m only coming across it now. It’s of note, I think, if only because [...]

Just got in from the back yard, where the healthy first bloom of spring is also the not-so-welcome first bloom of kudzu in the back yard, and this year I’ve re-developed the gumption to exert a chemical hand over this scourge of the south–at least as far as its domain extends into our property. I [...]

I’m surprised Bush hasn’t directed the Supreme Court to outlaw this practice yet:
homophily:individuals with like interests associate with one another.
I found this tidbit in a PDF Sammy sent me (she’s doing research for her writing, of course)–this very academic paper called Information Flow in Social Groups (PDF download), which, as she says, looks [...]

i’m going through one of those periods where I think I’ve started and accomplished 85% of many, many tasks…but it seems harder to take just one of those up to one hundered percent. I’ve:

Loaded tons of video onto my machine and have been editing content
Composed 85% of a fine piece of music with my keyboard [...]

One of those quick price/value comparisons that makes me happy that I’ve moved up to a G5, but started with a lowly 128.
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Macintosh 128
Power Macintosh G5

8 MHz 68000
2 GHz PowerPC 970 (two)

128KB RAM
512MB RAM

400KB floppy
700MB/4.3GB optical

No hard disk
160GB hard disk

9-inch black and white display (512×342)
17-inch LCD color display (1280×1024)

No dedicated graphics hardware
64MB graphics accelerator

230.4Kbps LocalTalk
1Gbps [...]