Daylight Savings

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Oh, yeah, it's Daylight Savings time. It is easier to overlook it in the fall, as it comes as more of a gift, like an extra hour from God, kind of an early Christmas present. It's that Spring Forward deal that whets your appetite for revolution.

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Daylight Savings

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Oh, yeah, it's Daylight Savings time. It is easier to overlook it in the fall, as it comes as more of a gift, like an extra hour from God, kind of an early Christmas present. It's that Spring Forward deal that whets your appetite for revolution.

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Voting Machines

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One of the big concerns that lurks in the background of these elections is the new use of these Republican voting machines that leave no paper trail. George Will discusses this in more general, less conspiratorial terms, with his dry and cutting wit:

Today's political climate -- hyperpartisanship leavened by paranoia and exploited by a national surplus of lawyers -- makes this an unpropitious moment for introducing new voting technologies that will be administered by poll workers who often are retirees for whom the task of working a DVD player is a severe challenge.

I wonder more about some of the darker, rather more conspiratorial concerns. If a number of close Congressional elections squeak out a Republican House in controversial votes administered by these machines, things could get real ugly, especially after all the recent controversies and questions, not the least of which being Jeb Bush's admnistering of the 2000 Florida vote. We need a little something to restore our faith.

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Voting Machines

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One of the big concerns that lurks in the background of these elections is the new use of these Republican voting machines that leave no paper trail. George Will discusses this in more general, less conspiratorial terms, with his dry and cutting wit:

Today's political climate -- hyperpartisanship leavened by paranoia and exploited by a national surplus of lawyers -- makes this an unpropitious moment for introducing new voting technologies that will be administered by poll workers who often are retirees for whom the task of working a DVD player is a severe challenge.

I wonder more about some of the darker, rather more conspiratorial concerns. If a number of close Congressional elections squeak out a Republican House in controversial votes administered by these machines, things could get real ugly, especially after all the recent controversies and questions, not the least of which being Jeb Bush's admnistering of the 2000 Florida vote. We need a little something to restore our faith.

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Remembering the Crocodile Hunter on Halloween

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Aww, Bill Maher's Halloween homage to the Crocodile Hunter guy:

Trick or Treat!

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Remembering the Crocodile Hunter on Halloween

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Aww, Bill Maher's Halloween homage to the Crocodile Hunter guy:

Trick or Treat!

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IE 7

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Last week, on the Yahoo page, Monk saw a ready offer to download Internet Explorer 7. Monk had heard that Microsoft was finally catching up with the other browsers, but he was afraid to venture to that undiscovered country. Not long after that, Al posted about downloading IE7, and he was rapturous, going on about all that tabbed browsing and all the new gee-whiz features. This whetted Monk's appetite all the more, but he still could not find the nerve.

Then, this morning, I come across this article in The Washington Post, and it looks like Microsoft is going to spare the spineless likes of Monk the agony of downloading the new browser:

But some users can't or won't make the effort to download and install new software. So now Microsoft will do it for them. Starting Wednesday, its new, Windows XP-only Internet Explorer 7 will be automatically installed on their computers through XP's Windows Update mechanism.

So, that is something to look forward to. Apparently, though, there is some reason to be a little worried:

But none of those features will be as immediately noticed as IE 7's new interface. This browser, like many recent Microsoft releases, ditches traditional text menus in favor of toolbar buttons that sometimes double as drop-down menus. This sleek design takes up much less space, but it also lacks consistency and bumps some often-used functions, like the home-page button, to odd locations.

In any case, if you've been using IE 6 for years, you may not know where to click when IE 7 lands on your computer.

This could prove to be an adventure, even good for laughs, as Monk struggles frantically to come to grips with twenty-first-century Internet surfing. But I am looking forward to it.


(source: Rob Pegoraro for The Washington Post)

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IE 7

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Last week, on the Yahoo page, Monk saw a ready offer to download Internet Explorer 7. Monk had heard that Microsoft was finally catching up with the other browsers, but he was afraid to venture to that undiscovered country. Not long after that, Al posted about downloading IE7, and he was rapturous, going on about all that tabbed browsing and all the new gee-whiz features. This whetted Monk's appetite all the more, but he still could not find the nerve.

Then, this morning, I come across this article in The Washington Post, and it looks like Microsoft is going to spare the spineless likes of Monk the agony of downloading the new browser:

But some users can't or won't make the effort to download and install new software. So now Microsoft will do it for them. Starting Wednesday, its new, Windows XP-only Internet Explorer 7 will be automatically installed on their computers through XP's Windows Update mechanism.

So, that is something to look forward to. Apparently, though, there is some reason to be a little worried:

But none of those features will be as immediately noticed as IE 7's new interface. This browser, like many recent Microsoft releases, ditches traditional text menus in favor of toolbar buttons that sometimes double as drop-down menus. This sleek design takes up much less space, but it also lacks consistency and bumps some often-used functions, like the home-page button, to odd locations.

In any case, if you've been using IE 6 for years, you may not know where to click when IE 7 lands on your computer.

This could prove to be an adventure, even good for laughs, as Monk struggles frantically to come to grips with twenty-first-century Internet surfing. But I am looking forward to it.


(source: Rob Pegoraro for The Washington Post)

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