Comment of the Fortnight

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Here you will find my personal thoughts on any subject that I happen to feel like writing about. It's called the comment of the fortnight because I intend to update it approximately every two weeks.

Back after many, many years:

2016

• Efficiency
• Fuzzy Logic and the SCOTUS

2015

• Some Mildly Distressing Statistics (16 December)
• Conversation with a Theist (5 November)
• Linus’s Rant Rewritten (1 November)

Comment of the Fortnight has been on hiatus for approximately three years, and has been pretty much replaced by blogging (which I simply don’t have enough clever thoughts to do), but it is back for special occasions such as:

Read the Comment of 18 April 2004:

Well, that explains everything.

If you have your own comments about what I've written, send me email. If you send me a really insightful opinion, I will, with your permission, put it on this site for everyone to read¹.

Previous Comments for 2004:

• “American President”
• Defense of DHTML

Previous Comments for 2001:

• Divorce and the Pope / Miscellanea
• Miscellaneous Items (10 January)

Previous Comments for 2000:

• Final Election Thoughts (24 December)
• Anatomy of a Software Mess (10 December)
• Thanksgiving Thoughts (23 November)
• Election (8 November)
• Personal Note / English / Election (29 October)
• XML / Photos (16 October)
• Olympics / Napster (2 October)
• Graphics Crusade / Politics (16 September)
• Poetry (2 September)
• Politics (16 August)
• Book Reviews (8 August)
• More Short Takes (20 July)
• Short Takes (4 July)
• Southern Baptists / Public Prayers / Hate Crimes (21 June)
• SLR Cameras Redux / Windows JI (4 June)
• I Like SLR Film Cameras (14 May)
• Don't break up Microsoft (30 April)
• Stock Market Blues / Music Review (16 April)
• Unexpected Appreciation (2 April)
• Status Report / Vermont (20 March)
• No on Proposition 22 (2 March)
• A Change of Pace (13 February)
• Religion in Schools (30 January)
• Merger Mania / HTML Rant (17 January)
• Mathematical Millennial Thoughts (3 January)

Previous Comments for 1999:

• Photo Essay (19 December)
• Gov. Bush / Book Reviews / Moving Website (2 December)
• Microsoft / Paul Harvey / PNG (14 November)
• Useful Links for Java Developers (28 October)
• Digital Photos (10 October)
• Book Reviews & Political Commentary (25 September)
• Linux and the Desktop - Recent Experiences (12 September)
• LinuxWorld Expo review (27 August)
• On-Line Tutorials (10 August)
• Short Takes JFK, Jr./design/movie review (25 July)
• Java / Olympus C-2000Z Digital Camera (10 July)
• Eisenberg Chickens Out (17 June)
• The vegetarians, the meat-eater, and the christians (28 May)
• Las Vegas Trip Report (17 May)
• Epson PhotoPC 750Z Digital Camera Review / Littleton (3 May)
• “Open Manuals” - a Suggestion for Hardware Manufacturers (18 April)
• Where's the New Comment of the Fortnight? (15 April)
• Review of "The God House" radio program (30 March)
• Not Knowing HTML Can Be Hazardous to Your Website's Health (24 March)
• Personal Update / Television Short Takes (7 March)
• The Utter Disbelief Awards (21 February)
• Seoul Trip Report (2 February)
• Postcard from Seoul (18 January)

Previous Comments for 1998:

• End of year Review (31 December)
• New Digital Camera (14 December)
• Linux Article Comments
  and Review of K Desktop Environment (30 Nov)
• Is Linux Ready for the General Consumer Market? (22 Nov)
• Election Wrapup (8 Nov)
• Chain Letter / Flirting (24 Oct)
• Laramie Incident (11 Oct)
• Moral Dilemma/Russian Alphabet Tutorial (27 Sep)
• Relativity/Unwritten Article/Starr/New Year (14 Sep)
• Writer's Confusion (30 Aug)
• It's Not Easy Being Stupid (18 Aug)
• Always Running - A Book Controversy (2 Aug)
• Olympus D-500L vs. Nikon Coolpix 900 (19 July)
• Self-promotion/Korean Groceries/Teacher exams (5 July)
• Teletubbies/Randall Terry (19 June)
• Reflective pause/Open Primaries (1 June)
• China/Radio Stations/Ernie Kovacs Record Review (18 May)
• James Earl Ray/Santa Clara Libraries/Microsoft ©®TM (6 May)
• Book Reviews (Kellerman/Clarke/Grisham/Grafton) (18 April)
• Guns (31 March)
• Olympus D-500 Digital Camera Purchase (15 March)
• The So-Called "Religious Freedom Amendment" (1 March)
• Words of Confusion; Words of Wisdom (15 February)
• Clinton Scandal Q & A (1 February)
• Internet Site Blocking Software/Short Takes (15 January)

Previous Comments for 1997:

• Music Review (Klezmer/Joplin/Satie) (31 December)
• Windows = AT&T (20 December)
• Education/Pictures/Hello, Foster! (10 December)
• Iraq/Septuplets/Asian Economies (23 November)
• Politics, Business, and Sex (5 November)
• Book Reviews (Gardner/Crichton/Kellerman/Stephenson) (19 October)
• Cats and Kooks (5 October)
• School Days/Vacation Days (14 September)
• Labor Day Thoughts on Unions (30 August)
• New Kodak DC120 Digital Camera (14 August)
• Religious Persecution (3 August)
• Time Flies When You're Having Fun (20 July)
• Cookie Paranoia (5 July)
• The Purpose of Math (19 June)

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