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Still one of my favorite blog entries, from two years ago today.

The first time I went to Normandy I was amazed that anyone made it ashore on D-Day. Those cliffs are high, and the beaches are wide. It’s humbling. The American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer is a must-see, too. [EdCone.com] Add another to your list, should you find yourself in Normandy: the Musée de la Paix in…

That’s the money quote from Will Saletan’s latest column at Slate, where he takes the money quote from Reagan’s farewell address in 1989: “There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.” Saletan goes on to write, “In clarifying his own…

Anyone aware of an easy way to add a photoblog to Movable Type? My new cell phone arrives tomorrow, it’s got a camera built in. I’d like to experiment with setting up a family blog that will have the ability to take pictures and have them uploaded to the blog automatically. I know there are…

Stephen says it best: “as a kid, Reagan was the very definition of a president.” I was 9 when Ronald Reagan was elected. My family was very much Republican at the time (my Dad worked on George W. Bush’s 1980 presidential bid), and I liked Reagan. I remember playing in Scott Prudhomme’s front yard when…

Just the other day, Ernie complained about his Treo: “I conclude having everything dependent on software (and software upgrades) creates its own set of annoyances and problems.” True, but there’s also an emerging trend (trend? well, two that I know of so far. Good enough for me) in automobiles that have more and more software:…

Wire reports have President Reagan in failing health. If this is the end, I hope it’s a peaceful one for he and his family. Hard to imagine he’s 93 years old. Update: CNN.com is reporting that a spokesperson for Reagan’s family is downplaying the rumors of Reagan’s imminent death. Most interesting, from the CNN report,…

Marc Canter points to our most recent case study, about Ziff Davis’s gaming division 1up.com. Total savings for a 50 person team: 25% time reduction in product development, $1m soft cost time savings by reducing group e-mails from 100 to zero. It’s great when you see customers realizing real, dramatic benefits. Thanks to Marc and…

D.L. Hughley is in Soul Plane, a movie that’s received, um, tepid reviews. At the beginning of tonight’s Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Hughley stated up front: “It was a shitty movie, alright? I could try and defend it, claim I was an artist… but I won’t. My wife wanted to go to Jamaica.” Now…

Lots of talk lately that e-mail is dead. At the Inbox Event (ongoing, see our EventSpace for a good discussion from today’s panel discussion), many are trying to figure out how to deal with spam. And the Online Journalism Review writes today that many publishers are contemplating RSS as the answer to their newsletters getting…