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  • Many Persons with Hemianopic Vision Loss Can Safely Drive a Car


    It's always unfortunate when you have to add insult to injury by revoking the driver's license of a person who has just lost part of their vision due to a stroke, brain tumor, or other intracranial disease.

    It is not at all uncommon to [...]
    Posted: January 27, 2009, 1:54pm EST
  • Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2200 Settop Box

    I recently rebuilt my PVR, which contains a Hauppauge PVR-150 with remote. In order for the Hauppauge remote to control my Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2200 settop box (STB), I have to connect a infra-red (IR) emitter from the Hauppauge to the STB, placing the emitter directly [...]
    Posted: January 24, 2009, 1:06pm EST
  • SATA Drive Disappears

    I recently purchased a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB for a PVR I was rebuilding (hopefully I will get around to blogging about this project). There are many reported problems with this drive, but since it is the only 1.5TB HDD currently on the market, and the price is so low, [...]
    Posted: January 19, 2009, 9:13am EST
  • Setup failed to install product catalog

    Had a first today.

    A friend of a friend suffered a hard drive crash on their old Gateway Pentium 4 computer. While installing Windows XP Pro on a brand new replacement HDD, I encountered an error message I had never seen before: "Setup failed to install product catalog." [...]
    Posted: August 24, 2008, 1:33pm EDT
  • PHP Tag Cloud

    I was trying to develop a tag cloud for one of my sites, and had some difficulty finding the best way to calculate what the size of each tag should be. Since I couldn't find a good solution online, I wrote my own.

    A little bit of Googling landed [...]
    Posted: May 11, 2008, 8:22am EDT
  • Dr Watson and the Thought Police

    Watch out! It looks like once again the Thought Police have been unleashed. This time, it was a politically incorrect remark made by James Watson, who in 1962 won a Nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA, that has triggered the uproar.

    Watson [...]
    Posted: October 20, 2007, 3:23pm EDT
  • Bayh Endorses Clinton for President

    Boy, this was a real cliffhanger. It’s finally official, Bayh has endorsed Hillary for the Democratic presidential nomination, and she has reciprocated by naming him a co-chair of her campaign. All that’s left for this little political dance to play itself out is for her to [...]
    Posted: September 29, 2007, 8:25am EDT
  • Greenspan Book Criticizes Bush And Republicans

    There has been much criticism of the Bush administration from the political right. One of the best books examining the failures of this administration is Imposter: : How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy by Bruce Bartlett. Much of the criticism revolves around his economic [...]
    Posted: September 16, 2007, 6:25pm EDT
  • American Oligarchy

    The 2008 Presidential campaigns are in full swing and talk of “political elites” and “Washington insiders” is everywhere. It’s not unusual to hear stuff like the following from the candidates.
    Real change starts with being honest – the system in Washington is rigged and our government is broken. It’s rigged [...]
    Posted: September 06, 2007, 8:50pm EDT
  • Global Warming Consensus?

    Seems like there is alot less consensus among scientists on the question of global warming than originally thought. Note that the "consensus view" mentioned below is defined as humans were having at least some effect on global climate change.


    Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 [...]
    Posted: August 30, 2007, 7:30pm EDT
  • Bayh on Iraq

    The following is a partial transcript of the July 22, 2007, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace".


    WALLACE: Let me bring in Senator Bayh.

    Your view of this issue? Is Iraq the central front, or should we be focusing more and have we [...]
    Posted: August 10, 2007, 4:27pm EDT
  • TED Videos

    I have been very disappointed with the offering on the most popular video web sites, such as YouTube, Google Video, and the like. I have attempted to browse through the "Most Popular" or "Most Discussed" offerings, and usually come away extremely disappointed. Well, I have recently discovered TED an [...]
    Posted: July 28, 2007, 9:20am EDT
  • Bayh, Lugar split over troop withdrawal deadline

    The Indianapolis Star reported yesterday the voting record of the Indiana Congressional delegation on the failed Levin Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 that would have required troop withdrawals to begin 120 days after enactment, with most troops out of Iraq by April [...]
    Posted: July 19, 2007, 1:13pm EDT
  • Ethics Committee Whitewashes Evan Bayh Violations

    Back in March we reported on the ethics complaint filed against Evan Bayh by Judicial Watch, a nonpartisan educational foundation that promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government. Judicial Watch revealed that Bayh failed to disclose his role as a director of the Evan and Susan Bayh Foundation [...]
    Posted: July 17, 2007, 5:33pm EDT
  • Is Islam the Enemy?

    I was struck by news reports of “brainwashed” children being held by terrorists during the recent siege of the Red Mosque in Pakistan. Apparently, the mosque houses a private school where parents who desire a traditional Islamic education can send their children. All seemed well until [...]
    Posted: July 14, 2007, 8:55am EDT
  • Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam

    I just finished reading “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades” by Robert Spencer (link). I had originally learned about Spencer when he was interviewed on C-SPAN a while back. I have checked out his Jihad Watch web site a few times, [...]
    Posted: July 02, 2007, 6:37pm EDT
  • Immigration Bill Goes Down

    A total of 46 senators voted in favor of the bill, with 60 required to invoke cloture and bring the measure to a vote. One of Indiana's senators voted in favor of the bill (Lugar) and one senator voted against it (Bayh).

    Some news sources are speculating that [...]
    Posted: June 28, 2007, 12:25pm EDT
  • Health Care Reform Is Not Sicko



    I watched the new movie by Michael Moore entitled “Sicko” this past weekend. Although it is not due out in theaters for several weeks, it was “leaked” onto the web and is being freely downloaded by thousands of people. Interestingly, Mr Moore does not seem too [...]

    Posted: June 22, 2007, 10:43pm EDT
  • Good Intentions Do Not Make For Good Policy

    That is one of the greatest problems with liberals having political power. They are full of good intentions, but they consistently come up short with practical solutions to real-world problems.

    Case in point: Evan Bayh’s latest attempt at legislating. He tagged an amendment onto the [...]
    Posted: June 15, 2007, 8:50pm EDT
  • Recent Evan Bayh News

    A recent editorial by Sylvia Smith in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette suggests that Evan Bayh was never really intending to make it to the top of the 2008 Presidential ticket, and that his campaign was merely a show of strength as a potential veep. While this is hardly [...]
    Posted: June 01, 2007, 5:02pm EDT
  • The Roots of Political Polarization

    There has been much made recently about the polarization of American politics (link, link). The current political climate has been characterized variously as lacking civility, hyperpartisan, the "politics of division", and so forth. Political veterans frequently reminisce about the good old days [...]
    Posted: April 07, 2007, 1:31am EDT
  • Evan Bayh and Political Corruption

    Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan

    An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
    Simon Cameron

    Corrupt politicians make [...]
    Posted: March 21, 2007, 10:02pm EDT
  • Same-Sex Marriage in Indiana

    Indiana is a red state. It is the heartland of America -- fly-over country. It is about as wholesome a place as you can find. Musicians and moviemakers frequently make reference to Indiana whenever they want to evoke images of small town America. Indiana is the last [...]
    Posted: March 08, 2007, 3:14pm EST
  • Evan Bayh and Intellectual Property Rights

    As we move into the Brave New World of the Information Era, a battle is brewing between those industries that profit from restricting the free flow of knowledge and information and those that are now making information freely available over the internet. The Motion Picture [...]
    Posted: February 13, 2007, 11:04pm EST
  • Evan Bayh - A moderate, hawkish veep?


    Since Evan Bayh has dropped out of the 2008 Presidential race, there has been quite a buzz about his prospects as a potential Veep candidate. There is often talk of his formidable fundraising capabilities. For example, this The Hill article points out that he had [...]
    Posted: February 02, 2007, 9:20pm EST
  • Evan Bayh Decides Not to Seek Democratic Nomination for President

    Great News!

    I read this morning that Evan Bayh will not be running for President in 2008. While I don't think my blog post was the deciding factor in his decision, it probably didn't hurt matters either :) [...]
    Posted: December 16, 2006, 9:32am EST
  • Evan Bayh - Super Fraud!

    I live in Indiana, and I am a libertarian. I support small government, individual libery, and free markets. I tend to vote Republican, not because I am conservative, but because their views line up with mine better than the views of Democrats.

    One of my US Senators is [...]
    Posted: January 31, 2006, 3:48pm EST
  • Guns Saving Lives

    I read with great distress today the sad story of the young Texas girl that was abducted and murdered this week. Given that I have two teenage sons that are close in age to this woman, I can sympathize with the grief that the woman's family must be going [...]
    Posted: January 21, 2005, 1:45pm EST
  • The Bell Curve

    If you have an even passing familiarity with statistics, then you know that a bell curve is the graphical representation of a normal distribution. The peak of the curve represents the average value of the population, and the left tail are the low values while the right tail are the [...]
    Posted: January 21, 2005, 12:33am EST
  • False Philanthropy

    One of the biggest gripes I have with the political left (and I do have many) is that they want to use the power of government to force us to care about the things that they care about. The fact is that I do indeed care about many of their [...]
    Posted: January 14, 2005, 2:30pm EST
  • Something to say?

    He who knows does not speak.
    He who speaks does not know.

    Lao-tzu
    [...]
    Posted: January 13, 2005, 12:22pm EST

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