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O Glorious Workaround!

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This blog seems to be up and running again!  Links are working!  Everything is working.

One of the valuable things I am taking from ITIL training is the confidence to STOP tinkering with things.  I have developed a workaround for this issue: category links were not working, and now they are.  Now it has cost me my preferred URL style, but that;s fine.  That;s not my problem, although “problem” is the key word.

In ITIL, Incident Management is exclusively focused on restoring a service, whereas Problem Management is focused on understanding root causes and preventing repeated or similar occurrences through permanent changes (or deciding that the changes are not worth it).

I have done the Incident Management portion of this, and I figure that the problem management portion … Continue reading →

Shopping Cart Attacker Only 12–What To Do?

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There’s a young person whose future is at stake here.  Which is why this lawyer is 180 degrees of wrong on this:

One of the two pre-teen boys charged with dropping a shopping cart over a fourth-story railing in New York City — nearly killing a philanthropist who was shopping for underprivileged kids — could be sentenced to as little as probation after pleading guilty to felony assault Friday.

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“Today my client did the responsible thing and [pleaded] guilty,” said his lawyer, Shahabuddeen Ally. “He took ownership of his actions. The goal is to get him back into the community.”

via 12-Year-Old Boy Pleads Guilty To Dropping Shopping Cart Four Stories Onto Woman Below | Fox News.

That community produced in him this complete lack of … Continue reading →

Balanced Bullshit Amendment Fails

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Huzzah!

This bill was a sham anyway. With no caps and nothing more than a simple majority needed to ignore it, it was meaningless. If it had passed, it would have provided no obstacle to running a deficit. This was smoke and mirrors designed to get RINOs off the hook with conservative voters.

It would, however, have provided Democrats with a meaningless scrap of paper to wave around and claim that they therefore need to raise taxes, and we would of course fall for it.
So I’m doubly glad this thing went down in flames.

Newt: Not Joking

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[Update, 10 Apr 2012: Here’s where I started to become a Newt convert. Believe me, I was against him early on.
This was after the Tea Party had knocked down several attempts to unseat Cain, which was important, but the writing was on the wall.]

I think the Tea Party is in very good shape, having demonstrated that it can and will go to bat for those who earn its protection. This message needs to be heard, among other places, in the offices of the Freshmen we sent a year ago, and those who wonder whether opposing the GOP leadership means defeat at home.

My unofficial motto for the Tea Party is “I Got Your Back!”

If we had already gelled behind a candidate, we would have been … Continue reading →

Job Retraining

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Government funded job retraining programs are an awful idea. If there is an industry need for this training, it will be provided by companies to employees or new hires who seem a good match. If there is not a need for it, industries will know this long before the government.
Federal job training programs are a form of welfare, an intentional distortion of unemployment figures, and another method to entrap a dependent underclass of non-productive voters. Even the best-run government training program cannot match a mediocre industry-run program, and at any rate, the goals are not at all the same.

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More Things I Don't Have Time to Write About

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Marxist Tools

One thing that chaps me is when people blame hedge fund operators and their investors for “betting against” something or other.  I would like to hear those same illiterate jackasses defend their own insurance in contrast.  If they’re so tough and so pure, they should put money in a fund which only pays if they never get sick, and which assesses penalties beyond cost for medical care.  Why, anything else is betting against your own health, right?

Supercommittee Fools

I can’t even keep up with this, but there’s a Continuing Resolution due in days or hours.  The debt limit and the last CR have both run out of rope, and where is the talk of another shutdown?  Here is proof that the Republican Party is simply … Continue reading →