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I have a love/hate relationship with Outlook that’s hard to break because there is some great stuff about Outlook but also some hidden gotcha’s that really piss me off. Here’s the solution to one of them.
IMAP accounts are handy for keeping everything synchronized with an email server and still enjoying the benefits of a local [...]

Another New York Times article, link, talks about a violinist’s recent loss and recovery and the subsequent concert he put on for an unusual audience. It’s not often that I see such a well written, amusing, and moving piece in the newspaper.

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This article in the New York Times, link, about the death penalty problems is chilling. I particularly like the statement “poor people getting lousy lawyers” in regards to the real problems with the death penalty.
I’m staunchly against the death penalty despite knowing full well that I’d personally want to kill anyone that killed or seriously [...]

After many months of intermittent leveling, my hunter reached level 70 the other day. It was an odd feeling to now have two level 70 characters. To put this in perspective, the time commitment for a level 70 is approximately 9 days or 216 hours. I guess I started this character in October or so, [...]

I came across a reference to the bike shed story and figured it’s worth revisiting. As I’ve spent plenty of time in policy groups I can say with some authority that there is wisdom in these words. And the email system recommendations should be made mandatory…as much for me as anyone else.
Subject: A bike shed [...]

Wired reported yesterday that the FBI deliberately misled and lied about anti-terror investigations in order to bolster the argument for expanded powers under the Patriot Act. I really, really hope there is another side to the story that the FBI will soon divulge because otherwise this is exactly the type of unprincipled behavior that was [...]

Warcraft is much maligned these days for encouraging obsessive play (can be true), hurting real world relationships (certainly possible), promoting violence (uh, never understood this one really), etc. Obviously I’m biased, since I love the game, but I believe the most interesting part of the game for me is the ability to stay in touch [...]

Senator Obama’s recent comments about poor people being bitter and clinging to gun, religion, antipathy, etc. is dead on. Anyone who’s got a lick of sense knows this is true. Rich folks don’t give a damn about any of that stuff because they can safely ignore it. They don’t like gun restrictions? They move or [...]

My coffee grinder broke. Thanks. It was traumatic. Worse still, I’m forced to use a blade grinder I had laying around until I can get a replacement. I want a Baratza Maestro, a $99 conical burr grinder that’s received solid reviews on several coffee forums. Williams Sonoma is supposed to carry it. They said they [...]

I’m not sure how exactly I should be offended by this article on CNN, link, about some rich assholes who are suffering because they lost their jobs after screwing over thousands of people with subprime mortgage deals that should have been illegal.
Let’s start with this. These people worked in an industry that was rife with [...]