I'm starting to believe that everyone in power over the last few decades were all completely incompetent: FDIC collected little in premiums. Do these people have any idea how fucking insurance is suppose to work? You collect premiums to pay out later when you need it, and like most insurance compani...

with apologies to William Blake (Note: some of these are bastardized, but many are direct quotes. Some of them are my own.) In design phase learn, in development teach, in between jobs enjoy. Drive your compiler over the bones of the legacy app. A fool sees not the same dependencies that the wise ma...

It’s that time again folks. It’s time to write a headline that if someone doesn’t look beyond the statement it may seem a little odd or maybe even shocking. Of course since we are concerned with Internet marketing here this is actually a story with a pleasant ending. The findings a...

You know, it's one thing to write a long post which everyone will agree with. It's another to get it published in the Christian Science Monitor. It's a whole 'nother thing to get it on the from page of Drudge: Congrats, Michael: that's the blogger's highest achievement award right there. secret tech...

Haloscan is eating comments. I dunno why. Be sure that if you are posting a mangum opus that you have composed off-line before you hit "send". secret technorati tags:religion God Jesus Christian...

Admonished: Pronunciation: \ad-ˈmä-nish\ Function: transitive verb 1 a: to indicate duties or obligations to b: to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner I was admonished on Sunday by my missus for not properly conducting a Sunday school class. We g...

It’s that time again folks. It’s time to write a headline that if someone doesn’t look beyond the statement it may seem a little odd or maybe even shocking. Of course since we are concerned with Internet marketing here this is actually a story with a pleasant ending. The findings are reported ...

... but we take risks here. OK: Be warned that this video lulls you into a pleasing little zone of coffee house mellowness, and then you get Rick Rolled, and then there's a sudden outburst of Chris Crocker set to mellow jazz guitar, and then it ends with the Power Ranger's theme. If you can not be o...

Let me say this: there is no greater human motivation than the need for other relationships. The question is only if we will make the right choices. And that's not only for those who are lonely: it is for those who read James 2 and want to be doers of the word and not hearers only. Wishing others no...

Business & Technology | Stocks turn in worst performance for new president | Seattle Times Newspaper: The election of Barack Obama offered the promise of a new set of fixes for the financial crisis and the economy, a do-over that might help nurse the stock market back to health. Since then, the ...