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Pass on the redshirt treament
ByDerekI’m sure Independent Health wasn’t thinking of this when they came up with their new ad campaign – “You deserve the Redshirt Treament.” They might have rethought it. This probably isn’t the image they wanted to portray:
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A project 3.3 years in the making
ByDerekSo, this is the weekend where I finally get to upgrade our internal Lotus QuickPlace environment (a system which I’m responsible for) to the semi-current 6.5.x release. We’re still running the ancient 2.0.8 version, which has been out of support for eons already. I wrote my original plan to upgrade this system to version 3…
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Here’s a shocker
ByDerekTurns out, New York State’s STAR program failed in it’s primary goal – to reduce the property tax burden. It actually had the opposite of it’s intended effect – it accelerated spending by local school districts, which in turn raises the homeowner’s taxes. I really don’t understand how politicians think. If a whole bunch of…
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KISS
ByDerekAfter checking my Technorati profile, I noticed a link from a blog that I wasn’t familiar with. They quoted my Tax Freedom Day post from last week. I’m flattered. Democracy In Action (.org) is “the first nonprofit organization providing an affordable, integrated online campaign solution for nonprofits of any size.” Cool. Sounds like my kind…
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Spam of the Week
ByDerekSometimes I think Spammers are just misunderstood people. If we would just read more closely and try harder to understand what they’re attempting to tell us, I think we wouldn’t be so adversarial when these slip into our inbox. And so, I launch my “Spam of the Week” column. This week’s entry comes from “Jerry”….
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The 9/11 conspiracy theory is a government conspiracy
ByDerekAt least that’s what South Park proved tonight, with a little help from the Hardly Boys. See… since one in four Americans believe that there’s a government conspiracy about the 9/11 attacks, it means one in for Americans (at least) are retarded. And since the government derives it’s power from the fear of the people,…
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