The dust up over President Clinton’s overt playing of the race-card in the SC primary reminds me of the character in the Cohen Brother’s film Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?. The challenger to the Governor is Homer Stokes, a southern politician who is sure to win the election but for the confluence of events [...]

After replacing my hard drives late last year, my backups were not running. When I tried to do manual backups using Norton Ghost, I got the dreaded BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) with the message “BAD_POOL_HEADER”.
MicroSoft’s Knowledge Base can lead you astray on this one unless you read it carefully, saying its [...]

Recognizing the deafening silence on the war as an issue now that the Surge is working, Politico.com notes a change in strategy coming:

After a series of legislative defeats in 2007 that saw the year end with more U.S. troops in Iraq than when it began, a coalition of anti-war groups is backing away from its [...]

I wrote about the irritating trend toward assaulting customers with a “wall of music” as they approach and enter retail establishments and mentioned Circuit City as one of the offenders.
Now I see that Warranty Week is listing more than just annoying sound as part of their problems; sales are down about a third over last [...]

Just a rant …
What’s the deal with the loud music OUTSIDE stores now? Trying to walk into a Circuit City store forces you to wade through a wall of noise … music loud enough that the bass is badly distorted … before you reach the “inner sanctum”, where the music is still too loud [...]