Musings from the Peanut Gallery

My thoughts on Software Development, RVing, New Space and anything else I feel like commenting on.

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Entries from September 2008

I Look at the current economic situation in context

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Apparently many people like to say that the current economic situation is the worst since the great depression. While that makes for great headlines, and plays to the Democrats story, it’s not the truth.
Small Business Labs has a blog post that compares the current conditions with the 80’s, with graphs.
Unemployment was very high in the [...]

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Tags: Economics · Politics

Why a Walled Garden is Bad

September 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Tim O’Reilly pointed out this blog post, how a music downloading application was denied entry into the AppStore because it, “…duplicates iTunes functionality…”. Except it doesn’t duplicate anything on the iPhone.

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Tags: Apple · iPhone

Analog and the Economy

September 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Stanley Schmidt had another interesting editorial in the November 2008 Analog magazine. he discusses disruptive technologies and ideas that seem to have a life of their own without any rational for their continued existence. Overall, the article was good and thought provoking.
What I found interesting was his assertion that the marketplace sometimes makes bad decisions [...]

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Tags: Economics · Politics

Check this out

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Adam Savage has a great demonstration of the speed of sound in gasses.

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Tags: General

Science And Religion

September 1st, 2008 · No Comments

I found this post by StarStryder (Dr. Pamela Gay) discussing her position as a Christian and a scientist.
I appreciated her position, because, after many years, I’ve arrived at a similar place in my walk through this life. I’ve spent many years in conservative evangelical/pentecostal churches. We left church a few years ago, finding that what [...]

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