The following story at
Ish’s request.

It was only luck that woke me up a little before 4:00 on Friday morning, but it was a good opportunity to see if the automated newsletter we’d written for Congressional staffers had been sent successfully. So I waited until four, checked my email, saw the message had gone [...]

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If you are a commenter here, I owe you an apology. Yesterday I integrated the
SezWho comment plugin which allows comment and reputation-tracking across weblogs. I assumed that only registered users of SezWho would be subject to this tracking. That assumption was incorrect.
When I activated the plugin, it transmitted six years worth of unencrypted commenter [...]

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Drawn from our substantive news coverage.

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Obama
McCain

Can bowl
No
?

Pals with Lieberman
No
Yes

Likes Cheesteak
No
?

Wants to stay in Iraq 100 years
No
Yes

Can distinguish between Iran and Iraq
Yes
No

Spiritual advisors sound angry
Yes
Yes

Decisions, decisions.

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I did a quick search before installing the Vista SP1 upgrade and I’m glad I did it. It sounds like there are some
major, major problems. I spent several hours last week re-installing Vista and I don’t want to do that again soon. I had to disable most of the security settings to make the [...]

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A while back I complained about
Vista petering me constantly about whether or not I wanted my computer to do something I just asked it to do. It made installing software or debugging performance issues extremely annoying. Well, thankfully the people at Lifehacker
found a way to do that.

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