Recently, someone very close to me was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. When something like that happens, you do a lot of research on a whole range of subjects. One of these subjects is medical marijuana. As primary caregiver, I needed to research medical marijuana since so much of the responsibility would be falling on me. I can’t grow …
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Apr 22
Spending That Pays for Itself
Occasionally one is faced with a moment of clarity; a choice that forces a display of where someone’s true priorities lie. This occurs when two professed priorities are placed at odds against each other. Congressional Republicans recently faced this dilemma. What was foremost on their minds? Is it reducing the deficit, making the government run sensibly like a business, or shrinking …
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Apr 21
Why Google's +1 button and the narcissistic Internet is a bad idea
Recently, Google introduced a new feature called Google +1. The announcement is clearly aimed at facebook’s ‘like’ button. It will begin by adding a ‘+1’ button to each entry in a search result but soon it will be possible to have web sites add Google +1 buttons to go along with the facebook like buttons and …
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Apr 21
Why Google’s +1 button and the narcissistic Internet is a bad idea
Recently, Google introduced a new feature called Google +1. The announcement is clearly aimed at facebook’s ‘like’ button. It will begin by adding a ‘+1’ button to each entry in a search result but soon it will be possible to have web sites add Google +1 buttons to go along with the facebook like buttons and …
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Apr 12
How to Do a Neutral Google Search
What many people do not realize is that what they are seeing in Google search results may not be what others are seeing. Some of that is self-evident. Google results are different from one language to another and one country to another. In searches for service and retail businesses they go further in geo-tagging your …
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Apr 06
Lizamoon and the Final Step in Securing Your Computer
Lizamoon is named after the web site that it was first noticed on. However once experts knew what to look for earlier infections have been found. However in less than four months there are now over one and a half million web sites that have been infected with the Lizamoon virus!
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Mar 17
Judging a Horse Race Without Any Horses
Gallup recently announced the results of a survey that is interesting not so much for the results but the implied thinking about how people choose among a large list of possibilities with limited information. Specifically the survey dealt with the Republican candidates for president in 2012, of which there are currently none. By comparison the …
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Mar 14
A Primer On Creating & Using Surveys
Opinion polls (surveys) are used extensively to understand almost everything that cannot be looked up as a scientific fact. But, poll results are only as good as the sampling technique, survey instrument, and interpretation process that underlie the reported conclusions. Lots of things can and do go wrong in this regard. This article provides the …
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Mar 02
The Answer is in the Questions
Rasmussen Reports released a poll on the Wisconsin public employees standoff that seems more intended to generate a predetermined result than real insight. The headline poll result was 48% Back GOP Governor in Wisconsin Spat, 38% Side With Unions But as always, it it best to look at the actual questions. Rasmussen asks five questions: 1* How closely …
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Jan 18
What Tax is “Fair”?
Many national governments are funded through a combination of income and broad based consumption taxes, usually in the form of a Value-Added-Tax (VAT). In the United States, consumption taxes (in the form of sales taxes) have been left to the states, while the federal government relies on a combination of income taxes, payroll taxes, excise taxes, …
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