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I am a big fan of The Economist. If I lean to the left, the Economist leans to the right to about the same degree - I like to think of them as thinking conservatives who give this thinking liberal a better view of the world than anything published in the United States. [...]

Email Excerpts

I’m too tired to write up a whole new screed about how I feel about the election. Instead, I’m going to excerpt some emails and other postings I’ve made to various folks.
First:
I had my moment of defeat, but you know me, I’m at heart a believer in American democracy and in the ultimate victory [...]

Guardian Political Quiz

The Guardian has a quiz on the 2004 campaign. I scored 34 out of 40, which is one better than Kevin Drum.
Not bad for an unknown blogger!

iTunes 4.7 in the Toilet.

I just left some feedback for Apple. It goes like this:
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Count me in as another one who can’t get iTunes 4.7 to install on Windows XP Home SP2. I’ve read that uninstalling XPSP2, installing 4.7 and then reinstalling SP2 will work. This is unacceptable. My computer is critical [...]

Nanowrimo

I am participating in Nanowrimo this month, so my already infrequent posts will likely be non-existent unless I’m way ahead on my word count.