You would think that there might be some compelling reason to upgrade from Office 2003 to 2007, or perhaps to consider paying for office instead of the wonderful Openoffice.org 3.0 that is totally free.  You would have thought wrong as far as this instance goes.

This is a fascinating video.  Abortion protesters are asked what should be done to the women who would have illegal abortions.  None of them had an answer and none of them had ever thought about it.  It was hilarious to see them come up with arguments as to why women should actually _not_ be punished if they were to have an illegal abortion.  They are quick to make an analogy to abortion and killing a child, but they are very reticent to make the penalties the same.  One even said something to the effect that “it would depend on the situation” and the woman’s mental state of mind.  Wowzers.

The FTC had solicited public comments on contactless payment systems:  The Federal Trade Commission and the Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic at the University of Washington Will Host a Town Hall Meeting on July 24, 2008, to Explore the Growth of Contactless Payment Systems and Their Implications for Consumer Protection  If I had known this was happening in Seattle I would have definitely attended.

I just learned about CSS sprites for reducing the amount of HTTP requests it takes to render a page.  Very cool stuff.

I happened to notice this in my Spam bucket.  Funny to see the phishers adapting to the trend of increased use of EV certs and the fact that customers are rightly ignorant of what EV certs actually are and why they would be good for them.  It’s never as simple as one might think to solve these kinds of problems with technology.  There is that human factor…

I recently listened to Rush while driving and wanted to reach into the radio and shake him because his delivery is so annoying. He must love to hear himself talk so much he repeats everything ad nauseum. Or perhaps his demographic falls asleep often during his show and needs an instant replay?

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I have often wondered about this kind of thing.  Browsers implement all kinds of “policies” that are largely implemented as undocumented logic in code – probably in response to a security bug.  Never before that I’m aware of has such a great documentation of considerations for client-side security for browsers been documented.

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