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Worries That the Good Times Were Mostly a Mirage [NY Times]

Posted on 01/23/2008 by Hal

Not good. We are already down after being unemployed since October. This is not good at all. [via Garret] Worries That the Good Times Were Mostly a Mirage [NY Times] (…) The recent financial turmoil has many causes, but they … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, General, Meta, Politics | Tagged Bernanke, economy, subprime

links for 2008-01-22

Posted on 01/22/2008 by Hal
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Why I’m still not for Hillary Clinton | Salon.com Frances Kissling opines, “women voters rallied en masse for her — but she has run as a stereotypical male and represents the same old cowardly Clintonian politics.” (tags: 2008+election clinton democrats)

Posted in Activism, del.icio.us, Politics | Tagged 2008 election, Clinton, Frances Kissling | Leave a reply

HuffPo on Clinton’s Win Here in Nevada

Posted on 01/21/2008 by Hal

Organizing Matters: The Lesson from Hillary’s NV Win. [Huffington Post] From my point of view, Zack Exley has it exactly right. Clinton’s organization, at least here in southern Nevada, was a juggernaut. The guerrilla marketing of Ron Paul’s supporters had … Continue reading →

Posted in Las Vegas Local, Personal, Politics | Tagged Clinton, Las Vegas Gleaner, NV Caucus, snark

links for 2008-01-21

Posted on 01/21/2008 by Hal
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mp3 search engines – mp3 search just in case you’re, you know, looking… [del.icio.us popular] (tags: mp3 music search) Lessons to Teach Kids about Money These are things I wish I had learned. Would Learn. Something. [del.icio.us popular] (tags: children … Continue reading →

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A Big Day

Posted on 01/19/2008 by Hal
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It is too late to be verbose, but I just wanted to note that both Audrey and I participated in the Nevada Caucus today. More on that and other things tomorrow.

Posted in General, Las Vegas Local, Personal, Politics | Leave a reply

Happy Belated Birthday to My Friend James

Posted on 01/17/2008 by Hal

Happy belated birthday (it was yesterday, 1/16) to my friend, James W. Lusk. He was my Best Man at my wedding. We go back to early grade school and in many ways, we couldn’t be more different. As an example, … Continue reading →

Posted in Friends, Personal | Tagged James Lusk

Nevadans, Were Will You Caucus on January 19th?

Posted on 01/16/2008 by Hal

I got this from the state party a couple of weeks ago, but I thought I’d put it up here in case someone local might need it… Fellow Democrats and Caucus Supporters, We have crossed another important hurdle in organizing … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, Current Events, General, Information, Las Vegas Local, Politics | Tagged Nevada Democratic Caucus

Welcome to Our Dog, Layla

Posted on 01/14/2008 by Hal

Her name is Layla. I don’t know about you, but I think I just heard a guitar riff… We were told she is a Siberian Husky/German Shepard mix. She’ll probably be about 40 – 45 pounds when she is full … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Family pictures, General, Las Vegas Local, Personal

links for 2008-01-14

Posted on 01/14/2008 by Hal
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Managing your iTunes Library on an External Hard Drive [via Dori Smith] (tags: osx ipod itunes macosx mp3 podcast howto via:dori) Pimp My Safari enhancing Safari’s usefulness. [via Doug Miller] (tags: OSX Safari macosx browser via:doug)

Posted in del.icio.us, Entertainment, Information, Movies, Music, OSX, Software, TV | Tagged iTunes, Safari | Leave a reply

Macworld is Nigh

Posted on 01/13/2008 by Hal
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What will be Wednesday’s ‘Must Have’ that was unheard of on Monday? Hmm?

Posted in Apple/Mac, Geek, Popular Culture, Technology | Leave a reply

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