Longtime readers may remember that this blog started and lived about its first nine months on blogger.com, the Google tentacle that wants to fill your blogging needs. An erroneous, seemingly arbitrary, and obscenely long-lived restriction on my account provided final impetus for me to leave for dedicated space, and BoWilliams.com and I lived happily ever … Read more
So Microsoft is going to buy Skype for $8.5 billion. I just barely know what Skype is, which, if you know me, shouldn’t be surprising. With few exceptions, I view the telephone as a means, not an end. Let’s make the plan with it, not have it be the plan. My attitude toward it ranges … Read more
I occasionally go around a bit on Facebook with an acquaintance who believes he is politically moderate. (He’s actually liberal.) Perhaps an occasional “moderate” knows he is liberal, but identifies as moderate in a conscious attempt to move the center. However, I think it’s far more common that a “moderate” really does believe his/her views … Read more