no leap of faith

Excerpted from Bloomberg.

Bush said yesterday he’s unconcerned that the price tag on the package may seem high.

“I’m sure there are some of my friends out there that are saying, ‘I thought this guy was a market guy, what happened to him?’” the president said. “My first instinct was to let the market work, until I realized, . . . → Read More: no leap of faith

iweb and google calendars

I have used a lot of different tools for creating websites.

I’ve written the HTML by hand. I’ve used Userland’s Frontier. I’ve written software to generate sites—in Perl, Java, and Scheme. Nothing does what I want, and in the end, it’s mostly a disaster.

In needing to get course websites up in a big hurry this semester, I . . . → Read More: iweb and google calendars

patience

Patience is a virtue I do not have.

By this, I don’t mean the run-of-the-mill, “When will this line move?!” kind of patience. I have that. The Bureau of Motor Vehicles does not scare me. I can wait with the best of them in a queue. I mean I have no patience for the big stuff: personal . . . → Read More: patience