January 2006 - Posts

What I'm Reading
Published 01-28-2006 12:02 AM | Mark
I need to add one of those little "what I'm reading" sidebars. What I'm reading right now is The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic case for Laissez Faire , which is essentially a full exposition of the ideas explored by Ayn...
Review of Battlefield 2 - **
Published 01-27-2006 9:38 AM | Mark
Battlefield 2 is a modern combat variant and continuation of the legacy of Battlefield 1942, itself a refinement and extension of gameplay principles first introduced in Starsiege: Tribes and carried on in many games today. The premise is team based multiplayer...
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Patent protection
Published 01-26-2006 11:54 AM | Mark
The pharmaceutical industry is effectively under siege , and has been for some time. In a previous post, I remarked on the massive shift underway in the industry to America. This is, of course, because America is one of the few remaining countries with...
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Stock Options
Published 01-23-2006 9:10 PM | Mark
I love stock options. You'll never find odds remotely as favorable at the racetrack or the casino. Stocks generally don't pay off fast enough to give you that rush of sudden wealth. There's no better way to leverage your money, and if you make the right...
Indoctrination in the classroom
Published 01-20-2006 10:38 AM | Mark
One of the issues I pay close attention to is that of leftist indoctrination in higher education. I have experienced it myself - first as a willing tool of my teachers, then later as an Ayn Rand loving antagonist. So I have some experience in this matter...
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More changes coming
Published 01-19-2006 4:39 PM | Mark
Frankly, I have been preoccupied with Battlefield 2, which will undoubtedly be seeing a review on this site soon. But there are a few things that need work here. First, I am 95% commited to eliminating the concept of "articles" altogether. I cannot now...
Review of Metroid Prime: Pinball posted
Published 01-16-2006 11:05 AM | Mark
Well, I finally got the articles working again. There is still much more to do with the site, but at least now all the content is in place again and visible. To celebrate, here is a review of Metroid Prime: Pinball for the Nintendo DS . Have I mentioned...
Insourcing
Published 01-12-2006 9:39 AM | Mark
It's rather silly, economically speaking, to criticize companies for outsourcing, or to even believe that outsourcing can hurt our economy. All it does is make the economy better. Companies that outsource are simply finding ways to make their products...
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More problems
Published 01-05-2006 5:03 PM | Mark
Well, articles don't work now and I am not sure why. This should be a load of fun to fix. I have a nice little Metroid Prime Pinball review that you cant see right now because of the problem. On an unrelated note, it seems to me that lions are basically...
Personal Weblogs / Forums / Photo Galleries
Published 01-04-2006 2:01 PM | Mark
If any of you select and lucky few who read this blog are interested in having a blog/photo gallery/forum of your own, please let me know and I will get that going for you. Now that I have updated, the process of creating individual sites will be very...
RSS problems
Published 01-04-2006 10:02 AM | Mark
If you have an RSS feed for this site, your link will need to change to http://cs.greatajax.com/blogs/blog/rss.aspx And thanks Chris, I see the problem with comments. Unfortunately I cannot fix that till I am at home.
Pensivity, in all its glory
Published 01-03-2006 11:20 PM | Mark
Being an intellectual type, I spend a lot of time gazing pensively into space, as in this pose.
testing pictures in blog post
Published 01-02-2006 8:16 PM | Mark
testing something... see attachment for a picture of my desk.
New Community Server Version
Published 01-01-2006 2:24 PM | Mark
I am upgrading to Community Server 2.0 beta, so things may be a little strange around here. There is a lot to think about and a lot of chioces to make, and I am going to fix some faulty choices made previously. As you can see, the database from the old...