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GodZilla: The DoD Eats the Federal Budget This speaks volumes: Washington Post In the White House budget for the fiscal year ending in October 2007, Pentagon funding would increase by nearly 7 percent and, for the first time in Bush's presidency, claim more than half the government's expenditure on discretionary programs, those that get set… Continue reading GodZilla: The DoD Eats the Federal Budget

Lind on Long Wars DNI. Long wars are usually strategic disasters for winners as well as losers, because they leave all parties exhausted. If they work to anyone’s advantage, it tends to be the weaker party’s, because its alternative is rapid defeat. The Rumsfeld Pentagon certainly does not see the United States as the weaker… Continue reading Lind on Long Wars

Ouch. $650 a call?. Ouch. Tech support for Novell's servers just went from $300 a call to $650 per call  [E-Bitz – SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS “Diva”]

Cuts lead to delays for 10 road projects. Ten local road and bridge projects, including portions of a long-awaited plan to widen Route 128 between Randolph and Wellesley and the reconfiguration of the Walnut Street interchange on Route 1 in Saugus, would be postponed because of a recently discovered shortfall in federal transportation funding, according… Continue reading Cuts lead to delays for 10 road projects

Network Neutrality. Network neutrality is in the news just about everywhere you look.  The Senate Committee hearing took place today: here's all the testimony.  [LibrarianInBlack]

GTD 2006.27: A 40 hour week. I know this is going to rub a lot of you the wrong way, but I come to the considered conclusion that a 40 hour work week, with explicit, limited, bouts of longer hours is more productive overall than the typical 60-70 hour work week. Last year, I averaged… Continue reading GTD 2006.27: A 40 hour week

Making a big impact while staying small. This interview with Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster is worth listening to. Even though Craigslist is a major force on the Internet, the whole company is no more than 18 people! They keep things very simple and don't pay any attention to the competition. Rather than dreaming up new… Continue reading Making a big impact while staying small

LUA, LUA, LUA. Are you running as a member of the Administrator group right now? If so, I need you to raise your hand, hold it behind your head, and give yourself a dope slap! There's absolutely no reason for any developer to be logged in as a member of the Administrator's group. I've been… Continue reading LUA, LUA, LUA

Gym vs. Sports. (Sidenote: I'm still puzzled a little by the fact that my geek friends and I got almost no exercise at all when we were kids in the 50's and 60's, and yet we were all skinny as rails. We drank whole milk, ate greasy burgers, and put butter on everything from toast… Continue reading Gym vs. Sports

Rails Recipes premieres in beta book form. Chad Fowler has completed the first draft of the initial 21 chapters for Rails Recipes and is now making the work available as a beta book for purchase. The final book is still a ways off, but this is an awesome opportunity to get at the very timely… Continue reading Rails Recipes premieres in beta book form