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A Rant: MySpace & Facebook — Brilliant as ever

Posted in internet tools, stupid ideas hiding behind technical rationales, too much free time on Mon, May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

There’s sarcasm in that title, if you didn’t notice. MySpace and Facebook have decided to make life difficult, for reasons that I fail to comprehend.
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MySpace first, since I’ve used that for longer — I’ve had a MySpace page for a couple years now. Don’t do a lot with it, honestly. But some of my friends [...]

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Entitled College Students — Such a good article, and so awful at the same time

Posted in Current Events, Social commentary, stupid ideas hiding behind technical rationales on Thu, Feb 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The article is “Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes“(1) The subject of the article is just that — college students who feel completely entitled to good grades just for showing up. (Hat tip to slublog over at Ace of Spades.)
One of the examples cited in the article is Professor Marshall Grossman of the University [...]

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Ironic – A state report saying that the state writes too many reports

Posted in Good government practices, stupid ideas hiding behind technical rationales on Tue, Oct 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

From the Austin American Statesman, (October 29, 2007 – 10:49 a.m. Copyright 2007, The Associated Press, site accessed 10/30/07) “State report says Texas has too many reports“
(I got the link off the OpinionJournal’s Best of Web for today.)
The report comes from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, who I guess would be a good [...]

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A couple of quick links

Posted in Current Events, stupid ideas hiding behind technical rationales, too much faith in computers and the internet on Sat, Jul 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

‘Private’ online photos really aren’t. D’uh. An article by Wayne Perry of the Associated Press, dated July 12th, details how people who put up photos of themselves on the internet find those photos coming back to haunt them at inopportune times. As friend of mine once said, you can throw away paper but e-mail lives [...]

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RoHS I – Questions I cannot answer.

Posted in RoHS, stupid ideas hiding behind technical rationales on Tue, Jun 07, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

For those of you not familiar with RoHS, it is a European Union directive. RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances (or Restrictions on Hazardous Substances, depending on who is writing). It bans the use, with certain exemptions, of the following substances:

lead (Pb)
mercury (Hg)
cadmium (Cd)
hexavalent chromium (Cr VI)
poly-brominated bi-phenyls (PBBs)
poly-brominated diphenyl ethers, specifically [...]

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