The Design and Implementation of laffer1

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/

What I find interesting is that the reporter is very harsh against these other journalists for giving donations.  I don't care if journalists give donations to political parties if they can keep their reporting unbiased or disclose their bias in their reports.

I do find it amusing that Fox News employees are giving money to democrats. 

I went to Meijers today. As I was entering, a police officer was remvoing a suspect in hand cuffs. The guy was kind of fighting him a bit. I don't know what happened but it looked like it might be shop lifting related. A few people turned around, got back in their cars and left. LOL

I watched most of Apple's keynote. I couldn't stand to watch the iPhone stuff at the end. Developing AJAX stuff isn't the same as Cocoa apps. That was very insulting to developers.

OS X has a few nice features coming up. I'm still not sure about the Vista style Finder with iTunes flipping crap. It looks like they tried to make the whole thing iTunes like. I guess if you already know how to use iTunes its not terrible, but its not a good application in terms of usability. It is not NeXT like by any means.

I wish they would have talked about server a little bit. That effects me quite a bit.

I finished installing Windows ME on that old computer. I attempted to load Windows XP, but it crashed during the setup process. I was suspect of Microsoft's minimum system requirements. 64MB of ram for XP seems way to low. It got pretty far in the process. I think the shared memory for the video card was the clincher. I did get Firefox 2 working in WinME and Lotus Smartsuite. I've got a disk that came with my laptop I'm not using. I used to love SmartSuite. i wish IBM would have kept up with it. A Mac version would have been nice too. Anyway, that old computer is still humming loudly. It ran Windows ME rather quickly. Until I installed the IE6 service pack it was very quick. I think Microsoft started using more DirectX crap in that release or something.

I've been trying to make right aligned menus work. Theme 14 is the black theme with right menus. There are a number of problems including a really bad reaction to clicking the subscribe to blog link. I may need to switch to a drop down or use a third party library. I'm very unhappy with the positioning problems.

Now I find out the game will feature ads!

http://community.enemyterritory.com/index.php?q=node/58&s=c9e9affb53d992ea966d3483ab4bbfe5&

I want it for free then. Why do I have to pay $50 for a game when you will spam me with ads?

id released a public beta, but its being distributed by file planet. If they don't like your systems requirements, you're locked out. My system wasn't fast enough. (Pentium D 805 + 2.5GB RAM + 7300 nvidia) I'm pissed because by the time the game is released some people will be experts just like WoW. That really sucks.

I finally found someone who needs an old computer. My mother works with someone who had her PC stolen recently. Her kid is taking some classes and needs a PC quite badly. I'm reloading Windows on it right now. I'm hoping this box will run OK.

I just realized I never explained why I thought that emuonline message was funny. I was trying to login to see if anyone needed peer review done last night. Its obvious they have offline backups at that time. I don't understand why companies need so many hours to do their backups. I can do online backups of almost everything. Just Journal only takes about 2 minutes to backup with locks on the tables. Sure the data is much bigger, but they should also have the $$$ for an online backup package.

I've been having trouble sleeping lately. The idiot neighbor trying to break in the other day didn't help with that. It's been effecting my homework. I've been stuck on page one of this essay for three days. After sleeping 13 hours (on and off) last night, i feel much better. I actually wrote something about not caring about my class in the first version of my essay. WOW. Way to summarize my classwork. I still have to get caught up in 444 after I get this done. I did peer review for the one person who actually submitted soomething in my group for 328 so far.

Being behind like this, I didn't feel like I could go chat with Steve about revision. I'll be writing through Saturday. I don't feel like I need to revise much for 444, but there were two assignments in 328 that could have used a brush up. These 7.5 week semesters are killer. This is the first time I've tried to take two classes in a summer term before. Its not fun.

Apple released 10.4.10 yesterday. Its only fix is the ipv6 issue patched in the BSDs at least a month ago. Considering IPV6 is on by default in OS X this is not good security. Think different!

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070620/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/dhs_computer_security

This is just scary.  If they can't protect their own network...

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9730708-7.html

Well Caryn saw a little fight this morning. It seems that idiot lives in another apartment near by. He was drunk and had taken the screen out. He thought the person he lived with was "fucking with him." He described me as "a tall guy who looked like someone who was going to beat his ass."

I'm still pissed about our screen damage.

Some guy tried to break into my apartment around 3AM.  I kept hearing this weird noise at the window.  I happened to be on the computer chatting on MSN at the time.  He was trying to get the screen off.  I opened part of the blinds and punched at the window.  He freaked out and said something like "Sorry.  I should be over there..."  Guy was wearing what i think was orange and green shirt with dark hair, white, and a little heavier set than I but possibly shorter.  I think he tried to put the screen back on.  I can't tell if there was any damage to the window or screen.  I'll have to look when its light out. 

http://www.gamesradar.com/us/pc/game/news/article.jsp?articleId=20070618145810176028&releaseId=2006032219817514003&sectionId=1006&pageId=20070618145845834026

Justice League meets street fighter for the lame champion

I decided to register for classes tonight. There is one class that I may still add to the schedule. I'm trying to decide if its possible. I've got 12 credit hours so far, but two of them are rough classes. I'm retaking 439, but it looks like I might get a different professor. That might be a good thing. I've got quite a few night classes, but Friday is free. It was actually quite good to look at this tonight. I'm closer to graduation than I thought I was. If everything goes according to plan and I don't alter the schedule, I'll have 4 classes in my major, 3 in my minor and nothing else to worry about. The catch is that the pre-req for most of the CS classes that I won't have is 314. If I bust my ass and there is class availability, its possible I could graduate at the end of Fall 2008.

I only wish there was something offered for summer that I need. The one class that was offered was cancelled.

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/06/a_qa_with_todd_holmdahl_the_hardware_guy_at_microsoft_about_xbox_360_failures.html

This interview is with the head of the Microsoft XBOX hardware division. Can anyone say design flaw?

I often make comments about Sony's root kit. Some people are not familiar with the background story. Sony released CDs which installed software that allowed them to control (read hack) your computer. They lost a series of lawsuits. Anyway, I was playing with Google's blog search and found this interesting blog with all the details.

http://sonyrootkit.blogspot.com/