tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458314875973956549Sat, 31 Aug 2024 03:46:40 +0000Another dimension of Carpe Web.http://carpeweb.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Carpe Web)Blogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458314875973956549.post-7954274181645337576Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:46:00 +00002008-11-13T12:06:04.672-07:00I haven't thought about security for my web browser for awhile -- maybe because I'm comfortable that I've made reasonable decisions. My recent Firefox update reminded me, very graphically.In the image above, Mozilla defines “risk” as any day having publicly available exploits with no patch. The image shows the number of calendar days from 2006 with and without risk, not the actual dates.(http://carpeweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/great-graphic-great-security-comparison.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Carpe Web)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458314875973956549.post-6361720709083539816Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:28:00 +00002008-11-05T00:44:52.185-07:00Instead of Gloating . . .Remember how you felt when others gloated, and show your better nature with humility and good manners.Remember that more than 50 million Americans voted for the other side, and your country will be stronger if you can find ways to reach out to them and unite with them.Remember than an election is a snap-shot, and solving actual problems requires conversations and hard http://carpeweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/10-things-to-remember-instead-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Carpe Web)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458314875973956549.post-6400733604408607526Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:15:00 +00002008-06-26T11:25:12.558-06:00It's reasonable to debate what crimes should qualify for the death penalty. Personally, I don't have any more sympathy for a child-rapist than I do for a murderer. My opposition to the death penalty, though, is not based on sympathy for the defendant.My opposition to the death penalty is based on two principles: human fallibility and limitations on state power. I don't want any possibility http://carpeweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/supremes-overturn-death-penalty-but.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Carpe Web)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458314875973956549.post-3176024851081199665Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:42:00 +00002008-06-20T10:45:14.673-06:00According to Fallows, who lives in China and writes for The Atlantic, "China’s environmental situation is disastrous. And it is improving." And it is improving through private enterprise. So much for showing the incompetence of the Chinese government.Still, exposure might be as good a weapon as diplomatic pressure, which seems to have done nothing positive for China over 30 years of "http://carpeweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/james-fallows-might-have-just-refuted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Carpe Web)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458314875973956549.post-6481296051042401776Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:46:00 +00002008-06-18T16:58:57.937-06:00We tried a boycott in 1980 to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Didn't have a huge impact, other than to dash the hopes and dreams of many athletes and "send a message" that most of the world already understood. I'm not saying we didn't have reasons, just that the boycott didn't seem to advance American interests or change Soviet behavior.With the Beijing Olympics just a few months http://carpeweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/rethinking-american-olympic-politics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Carpe Web)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458314875973956549.post-2185111281439001659Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:58:00 +00002008-06-16T11:18:29.231-06:00I picked up brewing as a hobby for two very important reasons.I love beer.I'm very lazy.I cannot imagine brewing beer the way many home brewers do it -- a pretty lengthy process of extracting sugars from grain and mixing individual ingredients, usually with a 5-gallon carboy as the fermentation vessel, and sometimes even with a secondary carboy for settling, and then a hand-capping bottling http://carpeweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/beer-should-be-this-easy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Carpe Web)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458314875973956549.post-6132182848825550461Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:05:00 +00002008-06-11T21:14:21.806-06:00Gay Unions Shed Light on Gender in Marriage By TARA PARKER-POPE Published: June 10, 2008 A growing body of evidence shows that same-sex couples have a great deal to teach everyone else about marriage and relationships."Not that there's anything wrong with that!"I hope I don't need to explain the Seinfeld reference. But now, the New York Times seems to think that I need to be more gay. Pop http://carpeweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/wait-i-need-to-be-more-feminine-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Carpe Web)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458314875973956549.post-909259181149623672Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:07:00 +00002008-06-18T17:10:35.695-06:00Not much so far. Just an extension of my original Carpe Web vision, which was -- and remains -- simply to "seize the web" for whatever purposes feel right to me. Right now, I'm preoccupied with creating an open-source book about the Iraq War and how to resolve it and the larger "global war on terror". So, you can probably expect some posts soon about related issues. I also hope to expand my http://carpeweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-is-carpe-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Carpe Web)0