Ramblings from the pre-blog era

Back in the 1990s, I was skeptical about this newfangled concept, "Web 2.0". It's just as stupid as interactive television, I said. Most people are consumers of information, very few will want to produce content.

I should have known better. Even as I uttered this opinion, I was already putting ramblings on my Web site. I continued this practice for several years, until finally, I started blogging in earnest, first using a monster Web page for this purpose, which I later automated using homebrew logging software (I finally switched to WordPress in 2008.)

Iraq and Nazi Germany

A false comparison.

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Democracy and War

Can weapons bring democracy to Iraq?

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The Myths Used to Justify The War on Iraq

or how we're being lied to by our esteemed warmongering leaders and media.

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Mathworld, Amazon, and corporate censorship

Many know the sad story of the disappearance of one of the Internet's most useful scientific resources, Eric Weisstein's Mathworld.

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Bush vs. Gore - an opinion

Everybody has an opinion it seems, so why shouldn't I have one?

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Good-bye, my little phone

or why I cancelled my Bell Mobility account.

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Monopolies or Big Brother?

Hating Microsoft is so fashionable these days...

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Peace Dividend, Peace Schmividend

or why I want the Russkies back.

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A Note on Global Warming

Are we really just helpless passengers on Spaceship Earth?

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The Y2K phenomenon

Will the world end in 2000 because of faulty computer software?

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Who Stole Our Dreams?

Space: We're out there... well, we put our little toe out there. Isn't it time for more?

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Magic in the hospital

Pseudoscience: Why is it so fashionable not to think straight?

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Killing is Not Justice

On the death penalty: Why two wrongs do not make a right.

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Nuclear Energy and the End of the World

Splitting the atom is the key to our future. Cowering in fear of the unknown is the path back to the cave.

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Verne's prophecies

Jules Verne was an amazing visionary. Most of the time, the predictions of science fiction are way off the mark; Verne's forecasts proved amazingly accurate!

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