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Perhaps you are stuggling with the details of how to be a good Muslim living in the West. Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Husayni Sistani has a website where he answers your questions. Sistani is in the news alot since he is the major spiritual leader of the Shia in Iraq but he still finds time…

SourceSafe At HeadSpin and Cyan we used SourceSafe. It basically worked and you got to engage in the fun of running analyze every so often so you could feel important. There’s some scary warnings about not letting your repository get over 2GB (ours was over 5GB) and stuff like that but basically it does what…

The Barnett brief is available on C-SPAN’s site as streaming video now. Its about 3hrs long. The video quality is crappy. And I still highly recommend it. If you want to think about what’s really going on with global military strategy its a great place to start from. rtsp://video.c-span.org/60days/ap090404.rm It wouldn’t play for me unless…

I don’t get the electric bicycle thing. None of them seem to have better performance specs (speed, range or recharge time) than me riding a non electric bike, and I am not even in that good shape. I guess they have their place as just another cool gadget but I can’t see any practical reason…

Joel has a new essay. This one is good for non programmers too.

“Why, of course, the people don’t want war,” Goering shrugged. “Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in…

Saw this guy on C-span last night. I don’t buy everything he says. He does give a great presentation. Its just so nice to see someone who talks straight about what they think and about what they expect to happen in the future. He views the global security issues of the future as a relationship…

Whenever you take advice from an expert, its important to remember that just because people can write clearly, doesn’t mean they have all the answers and don’t make mistakes . Mr. Sink has written a nice article (which was /.’ed) on how to price software and then only weeks after it was published admits he…

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Well that all seems like a good idea. It not…

As an update to this . I can now report that a CD player is $9.97 at WalMart. This is several dollars lower than the cost of a new CD. Ok. Lets say the Chinese child slave labor that puts this together is paid $0 and the people working at walmart are paid $0. Even…