TurboTax, as part of filing a California state tax return, just asked me if I was qualified for Ottoman Turkish Empire Settlement Payments? Umm, what are the odds that anyone who was re-settled from the Ottoman empire is still paying taxes in California? Is there a story here?
October 26, 2006
⇒ apophenia: Prop 83: Sex Offenders is not what it seems. SAY NO!.
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(Aside ca, voting) October 6, 2006
⇒ Fox Barrel Black Currant Cider.So don’t say nothing good never came out of Colfax.
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(Aside ca, food) January 6, 2006
⇒ Neotenous squid found in Monterey Bay.I’ve never found marine biology as fascinating since I moved away from Santa Cruz
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(Aside biology, ca, cephalopods, marine, santacruz) December 1, 2005
⇒ Boots made in Chiapas: realizing globalization’s potential for good or ultimate activist lifestyle chic?.Or both? See this short Dominion article for more info.
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(Aside ca, globalization, zapatista) November 11, 2005
⇒ Bill O’Reilly to San Francisco: “No more federal funds without military recruiting”.The problem with Bill’s logic is that SF runs a net loss paying more in federal taxes then its recieves in benefits (as do almost all major urban cities). Unlike say, the state of Wyoming.
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(Aside ca, politics, sanfran, st) Heading up to Sebastopol in a few hours with the Odeo contingent, be back Sunday evening, in time to do some prep for Extreme Usability on Monday.
Interestingly I first met the wonderful/crazy folks behind Extreme Usability (and many of my close friends and colleagues), at Ruckus’ TechToolbox, a (radical) geek camp out, hosted in Sebastapol, a little over 3 years ago, less then 20 miles from the O’Reilly’s campus.
Clearly the spiritual progenitor of FooCamp 
update: Some notes to come soon, but first FLOSS. In the mean time, check out the Foocamp aggregator
October 26, 2004
⇒ prop69.I also make Flash exceptions for well designed political ads.
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(Aside ca, flash) January 18, 2004
⇒ Arnold’s easy platitudes crumble in the face of reality. Cuts education, health care for poor, and children. Leaves state facing debt in 2005. (nyt.So much for ‘He isnt really a Republican.’
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(Aside ca) Its like a bad joke…
What does it mean to force workers back to work who got locked out? I have this image of the Longshoremen being squished through the chain link fences of the Oakland docks like dough from a cookie press, or cheese through a grater.Hey! Did you the hear one about the dockworker strike in California?
Yeah, the management locked our the workers and refuses to let them back to work, but don’t worry the president is going to enforce Taft-Hartley, and end the strike.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
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This blog is roughly a decade old, and at no point, including now, has it ever represented the opinion of any of my employers.
I tend to write about books, coffee, the Web, open source, collaboration technologies and XML.
I spend most of my days writing code, and occasionally fomenting dissent.
Currently Residing: New York
