Working @ Disco Technologies

I recently changed the URL structure to /date/article_name. There may be a few old links that break, but it makes it immediately apparent when the article was written and what it is about.

What recovery? Unemployment shoots past 10 percent – Yahoo! Finance And the unemployment rate doesn’t include people without jobs who have stopped looking, or those who have settled for part-time jobs. Counting those people, the unemployment rate would be 17.5 percent, the highest since at least 1994. Economists had expected unemployment to rise to no [...]

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I have been pretty busy, what with being on the road eleven out of the past fifteen months. There are a lot of partially-completed projects around the house and around the sites. Even though I probably will not be home for another two to three months, I have started trying to clean things up a [...]

Standards attorney Andy Updegrove announced the creation of the Hague Declaration recently. The Hague Declaration is a statement of human rights on the Internet. But it is more. Without being overly verbose about it, the Declaration also promotes free software, where “free” is not about the price of the software, but about the freedom that [...]

Right now, you still have a chance to participate in the One Laptop Per Child organization’s Give One Get One program. A number of blogs have written about it, so I won’t try to improve on it.

Determined To … Determined To Build A Business I have been home less than a month. In this time, I have not had a lot of time for anything. When I left, there were some things in progress, but opportunities and people rapidly move on when you tell them to wait for an indeterminite time [...]

I am currently on an assignment in a very foreign state on the Eastern side of the country.  I was in a neighboring state for a few months last year, so I am somewhat familiar with this part of the country.  However, I spend too much time lost, rather than getting to the worksite and [...]

Shortly after CBS’ Don Imus was fired for his remarks, Clear Channel’s Barbara Stanton was suspended for racially-insensitive comments she made on her radio program. I had heard of neither broadcaster before their respective incidents.  Imus was apparently trying to be funny.  Coverage of the event refers to him as a “shock jock,” so it [...]

Erwin’s StarOffice Tango » Locked-in by a potato One month prior to the expiration of the PBR certificate in December 2004, Europlant ceased maintenance of the variety, even though its registration on the national list was valid until 2009. This means that no one else could take over maintenance of the variety because it was [...]