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June 18th, 2008 at 10:36 am

Firefox 3

The browser wars are still going strong. The latest salvo in that war is Firefox 3, released yesterday. Firefox has gained steadily on Internet Explorer for two primary reasons. First, Firefox is more secure, mainly because it does not natively support ActiveX controls. It is ActiveX that has made Internet Explorer such a security risk.

Second, Firefox just does a better job on things like tabbed browsing and it is extremely customizable through the use of plugins or add-ons. Internet Explorer added plugin support in IE7 but it is limited and has never really caught on. Firefox, on the other hand, has literally hundreds of available add-ons, making it a very good web 2.0 browser.

There are add-ons for social networking, for example, so you can more easily submit sites to your favorite social network. There’s a blogging add-on called ScribeFire that allows you to blog directly from Firefox. This makes it very easy to blog about something you run across online because it is right in front of you and you can copy and paste with ease (see Jenn’s Fair Use post for warnings about this).

Tags: browsers, Firefox, Web 2.0

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June 12th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

Where Men and Heroes are Made

» by Ron in: Uncategorized

If you saw or heard any news today you know about the tornado that hit a Boy Scout camp in Iowa. You know that four Boy Scouts died. You also know that many of those Boy Scouts who did not die ended up being heroes.

The loss of the four boys was tragic and I don’t want to gloss over or take away from that in any way. But in my mind the larger story is the boys who were heroes. The news media isn’t missing that point but they aren’t taking it to its logical conclusion.

There have certainly been boys who were not Boy Scouts who ended up being heroes. But who seriously believes that if the same events that occurred in Iowa had occurred in some other kind of camp than a Boy Scout camp the same heroic actions by boys would have happened? I don’t believe that and I suspect most other people don’t either.

The actions of those Boy Scouts illustrates just what a fantastic organization the Boy Scouts of America really is. People have, of course, known that for decades and longer but in recent years it has become fashionable to attack the Boy Scouts of America. Organizations such as The United Way have withheld funding for the Boy Scouts. Cities like San Francisco have tried their best to run the Boy Scouts out of town. In locale after locale the Boy Scouts have been denied meeting space. They’ve been sued and hounded relentlessly. And through it all they’ve remained true to their principles. They exist to teach boys how to be men.

Tags: Boy Scouts, boys, BSA, heroes, leadership, Liberalism/Socialism, Military/War/National Security, prepared

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June 11th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

Prurient Judge

» by Ron in: Uncategorized

Imagine you are a prosecutor who is prosecuting a man on obscenity charges. Imagine further that you discover the judge hearing the case has a web site with videos of a man cavorting around with aroused animals among other things. Would you be worried about your chances of getting a fair hearing in front of that judge?

That’s precisely the position a prosecutor in Los Angeles is in. Making matters worse, the offending judge is the Chief Judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Tags: judge, judiciary, Judiciary/Justice, justice, obscenity, prurient

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May 20th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

What Does the GOP, and This Country, Need?

» by Ron in: News

It’s an interesting question. The GOP loses in the ‘06 election were widely attributed, both by GOP leadership and the media, to unhappiness over the Iraq war. While there was certainly unhappiness over the war, it was clear to most conservatives that the war was not the reason for the loss. Rather, the abandonment of conservative principles by the Republican Congress was the issue. Under the Bush administration we saw the largest growth of the federal government since LBJ’s Great Society.

Ronald Reagan wanted to eliminate the Department of Education. George W. Bush grew it beyond all recognition and Congressional Republicans went right along. Until the Democrats gained control of Congress the President had yet to use his veto pen. All the while GOP leadership and President Bush claimed the mantle of conservatism.

When Bush first ran in 2000 I knew he was no conservative. I voted against him in the primaries. Compassionate conservatism was nothing but a smoke screen for big government. Since then GOP leadership embraced this big government "conservatism" and their governance was hardly distinguishable for the Democrats. With spending out of control and government growing at an increasing rate, the conservative rank and file said "enough." If the GOP was going to abandon us, why should we support them?