Monthly Archives: September 2003

Washington Post: Bush Administration Is Focus of Inquiry. At CIA Director George J. Tenet’s request, the Justice Department is looking into an allegation that administration officials leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer to a journalist, government sources said … Continue reading →

With the help of a public radio station in Boston, KQED, the excellent NPR station in the San Francisco Bay Area, has put up this useful Web page containing an online “quiz” that helps voters compare candidates’ positions in the … Continue reading →

Wow, it looks as though Apple really blew it with the latest OS X update. Check out MacFixIt and Macintouch, for example, for blow-by-blow descriptions of the mess Apple has made with some of its customers’ computers, as well as … Continue reading →

AP: Court Rules Against Do-Not Call Registry. A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission overstepped its authority in creating a national do-not-call list against telemarketers. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by telemarketers who challenged the … Continue reading →

So it’s back to the races, with the federal appeals court reinstating the Oct. 7 election (AP). What a mess. Everywhere I go, people joke about California. No wonder. Comments Posted by: Some random humanoid on September 23, 2003 11:03 … Continue reading →

Cory points to an unintentionally hilarious page of instructions from Sun Microsystems, in which it explains how all humanity may use Sun’s trademarks. All I can say is that I don’t know much about the Sun Fire’s features, and won’t … Continue reading →

David Isenberg has a weblog. Good. (Also about time…) Comments Posted by: Some random humanoid on September 20, 2003 09:31 PM Now we just need ISEN.RSS so we can keep up proper-like using our fave blogragator. C’mon Isen.Dude, you late-adopter … Continue reading →

David Weinberger and I just launched WordPirates, a site devoted to reclaiming some good words from the people and organizations that have twisted them beyond recognition. One I contributed at the start was “guest” in the context of a hotel … Continue reading →

Mercury News: Senate rejects new media ownership rules. The U.S. Senate sent a stinging rebuke to the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, voting to overturn the agency’s new rules that would allow media giants to buy more newspapers, TV and … Continue reading →

I don’t know if this report on Photo.net is for real, but it has the definite ring of reality. (I hope the local newspaper will check it out.) Here’s how the tale starts: “I’m writing this to alert all of … Continue reading →