Somewhere amid today’s news of ‘Do Not Call’ lists being blocked, AMD releasing 64-bit processors, and the gubernatorial debates in California was a wonderful nugget of pure idiocy from none other than Microsoft. In the name of stopping pedophiles and spammers, Microsoft’s MSN division announced that it will be shutting down its chat rooms in 28 countries next month. (You can read about it from CNN.com.)
Mason Inflation
While I had some trouble in Macroeconomics, I’ve discovered that Econ. is actually vaguely interesting to me. I find it fascinating how our economic system works, why money is worth anything, etc.
TANSTAAFL
There is little quite so annoying as not getting your money’s worth, and for me this is most evident when I talk about the services I pay for monthly. For example, if you’re paying for an internet service and their servers are screwed up for a few days. Or if you’re paying for phone service but a wire to your complex were to get cut and take a day to fix. Etc., and so on.
Is the Funky Music Back Now?
A year and a half ago, I wrote a Front Page Rant called “No More Playin’ That Funky Music.” I was mad when I wrote that. You see, I’d read over the days leading up to that rant about a brilliant idea [sarcasm alert!] hatched by Universal Music Group—parent company of Interscope Geffen A&M, Island Def Jam, MCA Nashville, MCA Records, Motown Records, and more—to release CD’s that couldn’t be played on computers. The theory was that if CD’s didn’t work on computers, people couldn’t rip them into MP3’s and share them on the internet.
Harvest of Hope Message—Faith and Works
The scripture tonight from the book of James is one of my favorite parts of the Bible. It’s one that you don’t hear about very often, because it makes people nervous.
You see, we like to hear statements more like that at Ephesians 2:8-9:
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.