Monthly Archives: February 2003

Bush: Tax and Spend, Deceive and Evade

Bush budget contains $10 in new spending for every dollar in tax cuts, Libertarians say.
Not only that, but “The budget contains no cost estimate of a war in Iraq, nor a request to pay for a military engagement…. The president should have at least noted in his budget forward that a war with Iraq [...]

Digital Persona

Convergence of identity and open digital identity, Jon Udell and Marc Canter

Collaborative Geographical Event Data Collection

Earthquake! Okay, not a big one. It was a magnitude 4.2, about 25 miles northeast of where I am in the San Francisco Bay Area, where earthquakes are not unexpected.
The USGS automated system calls it “Event 51125525,” 10:22:58 PST Feb 2 2003 Mag=4.2 Latitude=N37.74 Longitude=W121.94, 3 miles N of Dublin, California.
If it hadn’t [...]

High Flight

CNN Breaking News — The space shuttle Columbia, carrying a crew of seven, broke up Saturday morning 200,000 feet above Texas. More soon
Rest in peace, and condolences and sympathies to families and loved ones.
Just this week I’d heard on a TV program that the shuttle still had 800 critical components, of which a failure in [...]