matt | February 28, 2005
Ignoring the fact that I have the honor of giving away a pile of money for stuff I don't care about, I love how the W4's are, by default, set up so that you end up having to come up with something like 4% of your yearly income around tax time. At least, this is [...]
matt | February 22, 2005
Broadcast Flag: So, I don't know where this is going to go, but Slashdot is reporting that a US court of appeals chastised the FCC for the FCC's rule mandating the broadcast flag implementation. For those of you who aren't aware, the broadcast flag is an “bit” (not even an encryption) contained within a digital [...]
matt | February 19, 2005
Sorry I've been away, been busy. Did everyone have a nice Valentine's Day? I did. Lizzy and I did. She got me some books (Alton Brown's I'm Just Here For the Food, The cult of Mac and another book on customizing OSX (I don't recall the name), as well as a KitchenAid coffee grinder. It's [...]
matt | February 9, 2005
I don't usually like these, but this one was decent. WOULDN'T THIS BE WONDERFULL WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR OUR PRESIDENT GIVE THE FOLLOWING SPEECH? And I wouldn't care what party he represented. My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of Iraq regime has been completed. Since [...]
matt | February 8, 2005
Liz and I tried the Peking Duck at Seven Moons. Not the greatest. The skin had good flavor, but it didn't penetrate into the duck. Also, they didn't slash the skin over the breast, so there was a lot of fat there. The legs were good through. Why Rhode Island is the short bus state: [...]
matt | February 7, 2005
Mr. President, I've been watching the news reports on the road trips concerning the restructuring of social security following the state of the union address. I have to say that, while I think the idea of “fixing” social security is headed in the right direction, I think it falls short. First, it is not the [...]
matt | February 7, 2005
Watched Bowling for Columbine. A bit more even-keel than I would expect from Michael Moore after Farenheit 9/11. He makes some good points (the media keeps feeding us news that instills fear because that's what sells; Canada has similar gun ownership and such, why do we have such violence problems, etc.) but he also hits [...]
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