Archive for September, 2008
The Moral Mind (continued)
Sep 23rd
Today I came across an article by the same guy giving the talk in my last post (Jonathan Haidt). Although it says mostly the same thing as the Ted talk, it goes in to much more detail about why Americans vote the way they do, and, specifically, what Democrats can do to attract more people to their side. The article is entitled “What Makes People Vote Republican?”
The moral mind
Sep 18th
I came across an interesting video today about the difference between conservatives and liberals and the underpinnings of the moral mind. Take twenty minutes and watch it.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html
Friday fun at work
Sep 12th
Ok, ok, my work is probably not fun to most people, but on Fridays I like to do something a little different to keep things interesting. Today I made passive ethernet tap to use with intrusion detection software on the office network. Aside from striping a bunch of Cat5 (anyone know a good way to strip the middle part of a wire?), it wasn’t too hard to put together. It reminded me a lot of my days working for the cable company. And I was pretty happy when it worked the first time I tried it.
Dropbox has been released
Sep 11th
Dropbox, a great little tool to synchronize or share or publish files between multiple computers was released today. I’ve been using it for a few months now. Lydia uses it at work. It’s one of the slickest tools I’ve seen in a while. If you haven’t heard of it before, head over to http://getdropbox.com and check it out (the video is short and quite informative).