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Month: February 2008

  • William F. Buckley Jr., 1925-2008 – RIP

  • Ooga Labs is James Currier is What’s Happening Now!

    George Rebane Today RR has belatedly established a link to the Ooga Labs Blog that is the online voice and vision of James Currier.  To you people of my generation, James is an exemplar and phenom of the young 21st century.  He is a recognized and successful dotcom entrepreneur popped from one of the east…

  • More “yellowdogs” correspondence

    George Rebane The “yellowdogs” piece has generated a lot of back channel chatter.  Russ Steele posts one correspondent’s contribution on NC Media Watch.  Here’s an exchange from this morning with Phil from New Hampshire who lets us know that we in Nevada County are not alone – yellowdog hails from a prolific family and has…

  • Bill Gates on IT Careers and the H-1B Visa tragedy

    George Rebane As a lifelong technician I have witnessed the downfall of America’s interest in maintaining a cadre of wealth generators coming out of our schools – and in my small way I continue to spread the alarm (e.g. here).  Today our higher centers of technology and science mainly educate students from overseas who are…

  • Singularity Signposts – 25feb2008

    George Rebane Solar Power Will Rule in 20 Years:  So say a panel of experts and futurists who see the confluence of two of the big three ‘Singularity technologies’ bringing about this milestone in human history.  Ray Kurzweil pointed out that the sun bathes us with 10,000 times more energy than all of us can…

  • The “yellowdogs” of Nevada County

    George Rebane An interesting dust-up occurred in the online Union that involved me.  My rapid response is contained in the post ‘Beaten About the Head and Shoulders’, but upon reflection, a more considered response is due since the county is headed into another season of planning for economic development.  The cited piece by Jeff Pelline…

  • Beaten About the Head and Shoulders

    George Rebane Well, maybe I deserved it.  I was taken to task by some strong comments appended to Jeff Pelline’s Union article on emergency preparedness.  This upbraiding is for what, even to me, was a lengthy presentation of my bonafides before giving some input during the recent county economic development summit at the Miner’s Foundry. …

  • A Canary Named Vallejo

    George Rebane Yesterday we heard reports about Vallejo’s financial problems and that it may soon declare bankruptcy.  Groups of city emergency services employees are resigning early so as to save their pensions.  These dire straits are reported in other media markets (see here), our local media have yet to see a reason to report or…

  • Thoughts for an Election Year

    George Rebane A letter from today’s WSJ – I teach eighth-graders about Karl Marx’s "take from each according to their means and give to each according to their needs."  The teacher takes away 20 points on a test from those who got 95 and gives those points to those who had 55.  Therefore everybody now…

  • Liberals and Conservatives Don’t Tell the Whole Story

    George Rebane “Read with Caution” is the warning label on the column of blogs to which RR is consigned on Nevada County Voices.  And so is the website of the non-partisan SESF (of which I am the Director of Research.)  Of continuing interest are the left-liberals who deny vehemently that self-declared progressives, who overwhelmingly make…

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