Daily Archives: July 28, 2003

Early coverage

Posted on July 28, 2003 by Charles Kuffner

Some of these are AP wire reports, but they’re all different, so here you go: Statesman Morning News Star-Telegram Express-News Chron More tomorrow. Continue reading →

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Going, going…

Posted on July 28, 2003 by Charles Kuffner

The special session is ending a day early, with another to start almost immediately afterwards. However, it may be a moot point, for it appears that 11 Democratic Senators have left town. One Democratic senator who asked not to be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Darned Good Questions Dept.

Posted on July 28, 2003 by Charles Kuffner

Stephen Bates, in the comments to this post, asks a couple of darned good questions about electronic voting machines: [W]hat compelling argument can any corporation offer that its vote-counting software should be proprietary? What gives any nonpublic entity the right … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Blogging: Not just for Dallas any more

Posted on July 28, 2003 by Charles Kuffner

You know that the Dallas Morning News has a Corner-style political blog written by its editorial board, but did you know that the Austin American-Statesman has an arts and entertainment blog written by its arts and entertainment staff? It made … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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If you love something, set it free

Posted on July 28, 2003 by Charles Kuffner

On Saturday, I discovered Tiffany sitting at the computer, logged into a webpage called BookCrossing, which is some kind of crunchy-granola peer-to-peer book swapping network. (My first question to her: Does the RIAA know about this?) She was busily entering … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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100,000

Posted on July 28, 2003 by Charles Kuffner

One of the effects of adding Sitemeter code to my archive pages was to move up by about a month the date on which my 100,000th Sitemeter hit would arrive. Counting the roughly 18,500 hits I got on my old … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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