July 2012 Archive

Something I’ve put off dealing with (until today) is typography. As a little bit of history: the typewriter forced us to sacrifice certain printed media standards because of its …

President Obama wants to extend tax cuts for Americans, but only for those making less than $250,000. Is this appropriate? Paul Krugman thinks so. As he points out, if …

I run a mail server on a typical Linux/Postfix/Amavisd/Dovecot stack and have been recently playing with sa-learn. More on that later. In the mean-time I thought I …

Setting up a database server is usually the first step when deploying a web framework stack. This is the second of three documents showing how to get Django up and …

I’ve found the Facebook doesn’t do the best job of inferring general information from my blog articles on its own. Fortunately, the folks at FB provide a name-spaced …

Austan Goolsbee:

Of all the public reactions to last Thursday’s surprise ruling from the Supreme Court on the Affordable Care Act, one of the most interesting came from the …

Dean Baker has an interesting solution to unemployment: ask everyone currently employed to work less. I think it’s a fantastic proposal.

From The Guardian:

Germany’s growth has been …

I had a chance to play with one of the new Retina Macbook Pros in the Apple store in Portland the other day and noticed two things:

1. It’s beautiful …

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

What a novel that rings home with relevance in today’s America! Written in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath tells the story of …

Economist Paul Krugman offers his view on the recent Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

From the New York Times:

In short, unless you belong …