Today I won an argument with tech support for one of the tools we use.

No, they're not fixing anything.

They agreed to change the manual and enshrine the bug.

*facepalm*

Dear (insert newspaper name here): "The Dow Jones industrial average" (or even "The S&P 500") is not all of Wall Street. For that matter, "Wall Street" is not the economy. Please adjust your ridiculous headlines accordingly. (Yeah, right. Who am I kidding ( Read more... )

whether this is funny.
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For the first time all year, McCain is leading on InTrade. On the other hand, the two lines made almost right-angle turns, so I'd imagine there's some noise in the data. And, there's always the question of how good prediction markets are for things like this--I'm pretty sure if you went state-by-state through their prediction market, Obama would ( Read more... )

http://www.gallup.com/poll/110263/Battle-Congress-Suddenly-Looks-Competitive.aspx

While the article is interesting, the important part is at the bottom: (italics mine)
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Survey MethodsResults are based on telephone ( Read more... )

ftw.

speed kills.

I'm calling the election ( Read more... )

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And yes, I realize there's overlap with other events for some people who may or may not be the people who read this ( Read more... )

Novell over SCO by TKO.
(Well, Novell may still be in trouble for violating a non-compete clause, but the important part is that Judge Kimball said that Novell, not SCO, owns the Unix copyright--which is good news for IBM, AutoZone, and, most importantly by most of our perspective, Linux.)