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Ahem… someone has just pointed out to me that the following makes me sound like “one picky motherfuck.” And that may be.

But I do want to say a word or two about where things are going with Small Computing Devices, aka PDAs, aka Handheld Computers. With me? No? Okay, Palm Pilots. Remember those? Know anybody […]

A good question. Recently, when I’ve seen the standard “No War in Iraq” bumper-stickers cruising by, stuck to the standard Volvos and beater pickups, I’ve had to wonder just what it’s supposed to mean.

Is it a statement of denial, ie: “There is no war in Iraq?” This is paradoxically true and ridiculous. It’s true that […]