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Touché, gentlemen. Nice catch.

Spoke to the Northern Illinois Chinese Association, part of an afternoon forum on the role Chinese-Americans can play in DuPage County politics, party politics and national politics. I won’t recount all the details here; Hiram Wurf did a nice job of that over at the Naperville Democrats website. It was interesting to follow Kirk Dillard…

So traffic to this blog was up over 50% compared to the daily average. Puzzled, I checked my referral logs. You know what’s sent hundreds of people here today? I’m #8 for debate drinking game at Google. That pretty much sums up the election at this point: People will watch the debate between John Kerry…

Priceless. Thanks to Joy for the pointer to this cartoon about KM: Who (what) is your institutional memory?

Hiram Wurf absolutely nails the discussion on medmal reform in Illinois. Using the Cross game as a starting point, Hiram looks at the myriad issues that contribute to the medical malpractice crisis, and points to arguments on both sides of the issue. Great stuff. Hiram, for those that don’t remember, is running for County Board…

Wondering whether George Bush has a chance in Illinois? (He doesn’t.) Wondering whether the latest twist in the Barack Obama / Alan Keyes race (Keyes’s 19 year-old daughter is gay) will change the outcome of the race? (It won’t.) Wondering whether the Illinois GOP is DOA? Well, they’ve still got a heart-beat. Tom Cross and…

Six weeks ago I installed MTBlacklist for Movable Type 3.0, and then upgraded to MT 3.1 when it was released at the end of August. In that short period of time, MTBlacklist has stopped 5,793 comment spams from posting to my weblog. That’s one spam comment every 10 minutes of every day. Yikes.

Very cool: FeedBurner has added Amazon.com web services integration to its service. From their summary: Here’s how the service works: FeedBurner detects your feed categories and then asks you to assign an Amazon store to any category for which you want to include the Amazon Associates program. For example, you might choose to associate the…

Michael Klam wrote a cover story in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine= that profiled Kos, Josh, and Wonkette. Kos and I spoke on a panel in Boston at the DNC, and I was actually present during part of the interview in Boston. (And sadly, I had a coveted invite to the party where the fight…

Lots of interesting innovation going on in the TiVo community lately. First off, TiVoBlog has a nice interview with the creator of JavaHMO, Leon Nicholls. (For those that don’t recall, JavaHMO is a replacement for the desktop software that connects to your TiVo. I wrote about it back in January.) Version 2.0 will include the…