The Professor’s Notes

If you are reading this blog, you have no doubt noticed the Twitter summary on the left, perhaps listened to a podcast or two, and even read my thoughts about various technologies. I have given talks about social networks, and even pointed out that it’s about relationships. All this, and I am left with [...]

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Over at his blog, Cole Camplese posted on the potential of online meetings as a replacement for many of the day-to-day meetings we all at times have had to attend.
I am fortunate that, with the big career change, I am no longer attending as many meetings as I had in the past, and the ones [...]

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Drew, at his blog “Notes from Off-center” wrote, in criticizing the current Bush Administration that “Just like Reagan, Bush II has taken a balanced budget and screwed it up.” I suppose everyone is entitled to a little bit of re-writing history, but to argue that Reagan started with a government that had a balanced [...]

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Far be it for me to attack Obama. Hey, he’s the one Democratic candidate I have liked so far. But I have to go after what is quite honestly either the sloppiest math I have seen, or the most disingenuous campaign rhetoric to cross through this campaign cycle.
I was reading the blog over [...]

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For those not practicing the fine art of Ostrich-ing (hiding your head in the sand), you will note that the dollar is performing poorly against most (all?) international currencies at this time. Of course, the media is reporting this as yet another indicator that times are tough.
Alas, all is not as clear when assessing [...]

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To follow-up on a previous posting (in re “I can’t pay my mortgage and I won’t move out“) I note the newest wrinkle: banks bribing squatters not to trash the house during an eviction.
To review the bidding, socio-politico-economic forces led us into a situation where pretty much everyone was happy with people buying homes [...]

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 The alert reader has no doubt heard and read stories about the US Air Force’s selection of the next air refueling aircraft, or “Tanker.”  In what to many was a surprise move, the Air Force selected the Northrup Grumman/AEDS (Airbus) proposal rather than the Boeing proposal.  And, not surprisingly, Boeing has objected to losing what [...]

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I recently received an email, containing an article entitled Less Money, More Pain — The Bonfire of Capital By Mike Whitney. The comment sent with the article was “This tells me that 2008 will be a very bad year for everyone.”  Wow.  Must be a compelling article, well researched, and written by [...]

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It appears, according to the BBC, we are another step closer to a compressed air car. Let’s start with the highlights:

Runs on compressed air
Seats 5
Will cost about $5,000 (that’s £2,500, imagine what it will be like if the dollar gets stronger!)
Will be licensed to manufacturers to produce locally
uses fuel only on long drives [...]

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Over at the blog, Confessions of a Community College Dean, a commenter wrote that
Academics of all people should remember that the plural of anecdote is not data.
I find this to be a humorous, and in some way, interesting quote. I also find myself “engaging” with the quote in ways [...]

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