After much bluster and rumor-mongering, but little campaigning, Fred Thompson has quit the presidential race. I am sorely disappointed. Until his slow and weak official entry into the race, I thought Thompson would make one of the best candidates in the Republican field. I would rather have seen his step up the intensity (and enthusiasm) [...]

According to this report to the California Air Resources Board, total ethanol emissions actual surpass fossil fuel emissions. Hat tip to JunkScience.com Blog.

My friend William has created LAWIKI, a wiki accumulating information on the University of Chicago Law School. Check it out.

Or was that flip-flops? Arnold Schwarzenegger apologizes for being a Republican | Redstate

I should have trusted my instincts. I have always been suspicious of Sony products’ quality-to-pricepoint ratio, but I purchased a Sony Vaio VGN-FE880E notebook, anyway, when my old Dell’s case broke, in a fit of desperation and comparison shopping. Almost immediately, I discovered that the cursor would sometimes jump around randomly, causing unexpected deletions or [...]

This guy is awesome, even if he has too much time on his hands. I Kill Spammers: Crazyremedy (VPXL) Spammers Want To Kill You.

On a friend’s advice, I downloaded and installed ESET Smart Security to replace Norton Internet Security 2006, which had been giving me fits (slow, bloated memory use, etc.). It looked fantastic, right up until the first time I tried to bring the computer out of standby mode. I got a blue screen of death (BSOD). [...]

I guess I will finally start blogging the 2008 election cycle. I’ve resisted until now, because the election cycle has already been so prolonged (and, to be honest, mostly irrelevant). I know the vast majority of my readers are political wonks, so hopefully they won’t mind if I give in to the temptation. So, to [...]

Outlook 2007 has started doing something maddening and stupid in the last couple of weeks. When I am looking at my Inbox and receive new mail, the item count at the bottom of the window and the unread message count in parentheses in the mail folders list update, but the mail isn’t listed in the [...]

As I reported here, here, and here, Ziff Davis spams people. Fortunately, I found this page. It looks like it was the solution! Read more below the jump.