On Bitcoin and Mt Gox

Can someone explain to me why i should care that Mt Gox went bankrupt?

Bitcoin always seemed like a libertarian wet dream and like all such things this is about how I expected it to go. Did anyone actually think this was going to be different?

Experiments in blogging - part I

I would be overjoyed if each person reading this would take the time to look up an email address for me (rob Wolfe) and send a note that says "found you".

Testing some ideas.

The first of a series.

If you like you can also leave a comment.

On the authentic black american experience of obama

His skin is black.
He lived in america.
Authentic enough for you?

Why do people try to make this difficult?

On Windows XP

Microsoft should just rename Windows XP as Windows 9 | Crooks and Liars:

So what is it about Windows XP that causes such fervour, more akin to that for British boy bands or TV shows about dragons and chemistry teachers? And is this devotion deserved? 

The simple reason boils down to the old adage, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Windows XP still gives many firms all the functionality they need to run their businesses effectively. The OS might not feature a user interface filled with pictures and charms, offer touch-screen functionality or mimic a smartphone or tablet, but most IT managers and CFOs favour return on investment, user-friendliness and ease of management over capabilities for employees to use their work machines to edit videos of their latest family holidays or update Facebook via touchscreens.

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On Snow

Do not like.

On healthcare.gov

You know, it occurs to me that if certain States hadn't been such assholes (if we can give States human characteristics) and implemented their own exchanges then healthcare.gov wouldn't have been anything other than a site that had  information and a bunch of links to the state exchanges.

The more States that declined to do their own thing, the more complex healthcare.gov became.

Imagine that, GOP controlled States making life more complicated and difficult for an initiative by a Democratic President and then whining when it is complicated and difficult.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

On Christianity

It is not a harmless shared delusion. That is to say that it is not harmless. There are Christians that are harmless but the religion itself, if taken as directed, is every bit as harmful to the body politic as cigarettes are to an individual.

This is unfortunate because there is much to like about Christianity but unless you are very similar to cafeteria Catholics(and at that point how do you straightfacedly  consider yourself Christian) then there is at least as much to be appalled at.