Month: April 2008

  • Minor Site Tweaks, More to Come

    As promised, a few little changes have been going on behind and before the scenes, today. First, the blog software has been upgraded. More noticeably, I added a LinkedIn button and the AddThis bookmark dropdown menu. Want to add one of my posts to your Digg, Facebook, MySpace, or other link list? Click away –…

  • Life = Insanity

    I have not been posting too much, lately. One key reason for this: Sarah tore a tendon out of her ankle and then proceeded to get terribly sick, on top of it. (She’s okay now – has an air cast, needs physical therapy, and is still congested, but is decidedly on the mend.) Of course,…

  • Favorite Spam of the Day

    I love this person, because he or she is incompetent in the most amusing way. One would hope that such blazing incompetence renders such people inept in their efforts to harm others, though for every con there is probably a gullible enough mark out there… Subject: 2007 Fiscal Activity – $2839,49 Refund From: “[email protected]”<service @irs.gov>…

  • Tech Policy Seminar

    Both Sarah and I are going to be blogging and commenting at Professor Picker’s Antitrust & Intellectual Property seminar blog (called, for some reason, the Tech Policy Seminar blog) this quarter. The current topic of discussion is Jean-Noël Jeanneney‘s Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge, translated from the French Quand Google défie l’Europe: Plaidoyer…

  • Grilling Oil Executives

    I am, I admit, a paleocapitalist and (mostly a) paleoconservative. That said, I do not think oil company executives – or any other corporate executives – should have to defend their company’s profits, unless illegally gained. For that reason, this meddling strikes me as ridiculous. Lest we forget, oil is among the most volatile and…