Academic Duty
Monday, 22 March 2004In the fall, I read a great book about the academic enterprise by Donald Kennedy, a former president of Stanford University, called Academic Duty. This quote, from Alexander Heard, Chancellor Emeritus of Vanderbilt University, quoted in Speaking of the University, reminds me of some of the same themes. It is from a speech that Heard [...]
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Open Secrets…
Monday, 22 March 2004I discovered two websites which are both a wealth of information and a little bit scary. They are opensecrets.org and fundrace.org. Open Secrets, in addition to providing vast amounts of general information, will let you search by donor to see how much various individuals have contributed. That’s right, you can lookup everyone you know. Fund [...]
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Shot in a Drive By Worming
Sunday, 21 March 2004I was hit by the Witty Worm yesterday. It wasn’t as bad as it could have been, as far as I can tell. It looks like many, many others were hit much harder and had to rebuild their systems from scratch. At this point, my system seems basically okay, although I am worried that I [...]
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Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
Monday, 15 March 2004I was browsing Jason’s recent entries when I ran across a link to this document. It contains a letter sent by SCO to Congress and an “Open Letter” from SCO to whomever chooses to read it. Now in the interest of full disclosure, you should know that from the outset I haven’t been very sympathetic [...]
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Down in the Banana Republic…
Sunday, 14 March 2004It seems that Florida is still upholding my characterization of it as a banana republic from a couple of years ago. An editorial in the NY Times today suggests that the situation with elections in Florida may have gotten worse, rather than better. Hanging chads may be bad, but at least there was a paper [...]
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Political History
Monday, 8 March 2004The history of candidates whom I have supported in primary elections is really miserable. Maybe next time I should just stay home… (Although the record will show that is mostly what I did in 2000, and look where that got us…) 1996 – Lamar Alexander. I grew up in Tennessee. Lamar Alexander was a good [...]
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