Archive for May, 2008

Dwight Schrute on Google Friend Connect

Friday, May 16th, 2008

When I first read about Google Friend Connect, an upcoming service that will allow website owners to easily add social network functionality to their own websites, I immediately thought of these lines from NBC’s “The Office”:
Dwight: Why am I being forced to come in tomorrow and pretend that a website made sales that I made?
Ryan: […]

Plugging a Family Friend

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

A family friend recently moved to Utah so his wife could attend BYU.  He’s looking for work and has experience coding in C and Python.  If you know of any opportunities, would you please let me know?

Arson, Rent Control, and the Perverse Incentives of Socialism

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Allan Young plugged my last post in a piece he wrote about the potential of arson as a scapegoat of housing-bubble hardships.
His post reminds me of a similar report of arson, this time related to government rent control.  In Thomas Sowell’s excellent book, Basic Economics - A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy, he explains that […]

Big Government Responsible for Housing Bubble

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

 I wish more people understood the substance of this recent article from Ron Paul:
Big Government Responsible for Housing Bubble
The House passed two bills attempting to rehabilitate the housing and mortgage market this week.  There doesn’t seem to be any shortage of criticism and blame for the bad decisions, and rightly so.  […]

Know Your Liberty Series Starts Tonight

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

I’m hoping to attend this series by Stephen Pratt, who wrote the forward to “The 5000 Year Leap”.
Are you familiar with the revolutionary ideas that produced the miracle of America? Do you understand the principles of liberty embodied in the Declaration and in the Constitution? Can you defend that “glorious standard?” Well, you are in […]