News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Friday, September 12, 2008

Windows XP gets the slows

Daughter returned from overseas last weekend, bringing back her Compaq/HP 6516 laptop with the slows. Apparently the machine caught somethi...

Poltical Thing

TV was full of 9/11 remembrances all day yesterday. This lasted up and into the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. They had some pundit on, talki...

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Kim Jong Il may be ill. Or dead or dying

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il failed to appear on the reviewing stand for the North Korean version of a Fourth of July parade. He hasn...

Lipstick on a Pig

Fox news has been replaying Obama's "Lipstick on a pig" comment all day. Much as I enjoy watching the media bash democrats f...

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Freddie and Fannie

We taxpayers are gonna take a solid hit on this one. It's probably necessary, Fannie and Freddie bonds were sold all over the world an...

Want can I say about Sarah Palin?

Darn little that hasn't been said by others. She has dominated the media for the last week.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Technical experience vs people skills

The airwaves are full of talk about experience, who has it, who needs it, who brings what experience to what ticket. "Foreign affairs...

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