http://blog.laubenheimer.net/ Random thoughts, articles, ranticles, and musings from an iconoclastic geek. en-us Copyright 2009 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:50:43 -0800 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:11:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.0D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "Cloud Computing" is supposedly the next big thing in computing. "Everybody is looking to develop a cloud strategy", blah, blah. It's ninety-five percent hype. That's the nicest thing I have to say about it. http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000076.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000076.html business Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:50:43 -0800 OK, we know that the Republican party has become the party of religious conservatives, corporate pandering and bellicose foreign relations. No longer fiscally responsible, they say "No" to any spending or tax cut for the middle class, and "Yes" to any and all spending and tax cuts for huge corporations and the wealthy. They want to get all up in people's private business, and push their pseudo-religious agenda onto everyone by force of law, but don't want a single regulation to touch their precious corporations and how they do business with the public. That's not a true conservative, IMO. It's a parody owned and operated by corporate and religious interests (that are often in bed together, too.) http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000075.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000075.html WeltPolitik Tue, 12 May 2009 19:50:58 -0800 #amazonfail) and various blogs and exploded. ]]> http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000074.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000074.html business Mon, 11 May 2009 13:42:33 -0800 Borrow and Spend The next 8 or more years will have to be Tax and Repay.]]> http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000073.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000073.html WeltPolitik Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:01:44 -0800 Order placed 11/18 @ 11:30 am with 2 day Prime shipping: Items shipped on November 18, 2008: Delivery estimate: November 19, 2008 1 package via UPS * 1 of: Sony Stamina Platinum Alkaline D Batteries (4 Pack) Sold by: Amazon.com,... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000072.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000072.html business Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:24:55 -0800 Amazon.com to Launch DRM-Free MP3 Music Download Store with Songs and Albums from EMI Music and More Than 12,000 Other Labels. Amazon's long awaited music download service is not laden with useless, crippling, and insulting DRM. Yes, Apple iTunes finally... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000071.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000071.html business Wed, 16 May 2007 12:58:42 -0800 Dear Jerk Food Producers, If I get a hold of one of your single serving containers of crap, and it says "0 grams of trans fat", I expect it to really be Zero. Yet if I read the ingredients list,... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000070.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000070.html ranticles Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:18:51 -0800 I've been fighting a losing battle with my energy usage for a good 20 years. With over 4 computers, three TVs and attendant recorders, two printers, a fax, two freezers, two fridges, two A/C units and two microwaves, my electric... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000068.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000068.html misc musings Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:29:43 -0800 News Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness, and Policy Failures Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP), a coalition of west coast social justice-based homelessness organizations, has released a report that documents how more than 25 years of federal... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000067.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000067.html WeltPolitik Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:50:34 -0800 You might enjoy gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" - Hugh MacLeod's card-toon blog. Lightweight, funny, and sometimes gets a real good zinger in. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a friggin' "A-list" blog, but the cartoons are... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000064.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000064.html misc musings Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:44:01 -0800 The recent BlogHer '06 conference was represented as a "mommy blogger" conference, with a subtext that all female bloggers (that counted anyway) were mothers blogging about their children, diets, relationships, celebrities and fashion - the traditional online female ghetto. Quotes... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000063.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000063.html hall of shame Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:29:45 -0800 So, now companies with slimy business practices and/or scummy politicians and lobbyists that are exposed in blogs are hiring trolls to comment and try to screw up the discourse: One more reason to be wary of feeding trolls. One company... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000061.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000061.html WeltPolitik Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:05:57 -0800 I chanced across a CNET article today, Newspapers woo bloggers with mixed results. Now, the story does reflect the journalist's tendency to either discount blogs as trash, or hail them as the savior of the online news community (but more... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000060.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000060.html misc musings Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:50:19 -0800 Layoffs as a Stock Booster I came upon yet another news article saying, essentially, the best way to improve an ailing company's stock price (hence value) is to lay off employees. It seems to be "conventional wisdom" in the quarterly... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000059.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000059.html ranticles Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:00:41 -0800 I am a systems engineer. This means I do internal infrastructure, and handle user issues. I'm not a software developer, but I'm not just a help desk person either. My area of specialty is Linux operating system and software, both... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000056.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000056.html misc musings Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:53:58 -0800