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Eric Crawford breaks down Steve Kragthope

...or rather some of coach K's comments about the offensive coordinator role last year and what we might see next year.

Kragthorpe's answers are relatively nonsensical "coach speak", but I find Crawford's analysis to be pretty insightful particularly his comments about the first question.

Sign the Open Source Letter to President Obama

A consortium of developers is petitioning the Obama administration to consider open source software when the federal government makes software decisions. They started a blog at http://consideropensource.blogspot.com. I'm not sure if anyone in the Obama administration is aware of this or not, but I do agree, in principal, with what these folks are trying to do.

I went ahead and signed the petition.

Hurricane Ike's Wake

A glimpse in to Galveston's difficult if not impossible recovery - the people who are there and trying, and the dire need for state and federal funding that hasn't come through.

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Games: Value vs. Worth.... Part Deux

About a year and a half ago, I posted a rant about video games, their prices and how that impacts review scores (or even perception to the quality of the game.

Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised the other day when Arstechnica's Opposable Thumbs Journal made their first post in a new series titled Bargain Bin Review... and ended up giving the much maligned Fracture a good review at its new bargain price of $19.99.

Fracture was a demo I quite enjoyed and while I didn't think it was worth rushing out and buying it at its original MSRP, I did think it had an intriguing idea... maybe some like minded cheap asses, like myself, will give it a second look.

CS, Programming, and Education

I just read a recent interview with Bjarne Stroustrup (creator of C++) which discuss issues in Comptuer Science education. His points where further emphasized by reffering to this great article by Joel on Software.

I don't have much to add to the topic other than a loud "HERE! HERE!"

Yeah, I'm cute. So what?

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