Monthly Archives: February 2009

PC Study Bible: Ripoff

Biblesoft sells a boxed entry-level Bible software package called PC Study Bible. It’s junk. The library included is fine, but the the software is just atrocious. It hogs the CPU, offers very slow screen repaints, and generally dogs down the … Continue reading

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XP: Making Me Sick

Just on a lark, I decided to drag out my XP disk and install it on my main desktop system. It took quite a while to get all the updates, because many of them were strictly sequential. Every piece of … Continue reading

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Trail: Nearly a Mile

Oklahoma is mostly laid out in a square grid, with some tweaking to account for the curvature of the earth at this latitude. Each square is theoretically one mile on each side. Most of the state is criss-crossed by roads … Continue reading

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Can the US Economy Be Fixed?

In a word, NO. I’ve already explained previously the fundamental nature of economic activity within a community. I also explained when you centralize the controls and the ownership of economic activity, you destroy it. If you operate from a fiat … Continue reading

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OS Agnostic?

I’m trying to become more agnostic about computer OSes. I know what I like and what I want, but I also know the rest of the world, particularly those whom I help, just don’t care. All my effort in the … Continue reading

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Windows (Ugh) 2000

Well, I had to put Windows 2000 on one of my machines. As is always the reason, there are a few things I have to run which only work properly under the Windows environment. Since I know how to make … Continue reading

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Major Trail Work Today

I managed to devote a solid three hours to the trail today. The day the tornadoes raked across this state, I had about a half-hour just to break down a large pile of dead-fall limbs, part of last winter’s ice … Continue reading

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Global Elite Goals

Keep in mind, this is at best an educated guess. I’m abstracting what appears to be the goals of the global elite from published data, and partly from simple observation. On occasion, you’ll find a blunt confession, such as the … Continue reading

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Trading on Craigslist

I finally decided I have no use for my eMac. It just sits there. I don’t do Mac. It’s okay, but it doesn’t work the way I do, so I’m going to find it a new home. Over the years, … Continue reading

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Lost in the Political Haze

Even before President Obama was sworn in, political observers noted a tsunami of proposed changes which tend to characterize the shift from Republican to Democratic leadership. All the fears of the right-wing were flaming, and denunciations wafted to the sky … Continue reading

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