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Video: Glenn Beck at BYU Marriot Center for Freedom Festival Patriotic Service
I should have attended this service. I definitely want to make a point to attend it next year, regardless of who is speaking, because of the way it made me feel to watch it.KBYU has streaming video of the service....
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Shatner vs Beck
Wow! About a month ago, my hero Glenn Beck had actor, writer, artist, etc. William Shatner on his television program for an hour-long interview. I missed it and didn't record it so I was very pleased to find out...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Review: Samsung Instinct as a replacement smartphone
I've had a Palm Treo 700p for a couple years and a Treo 650p before that, both with Sprint as a wireless carrier. The 700p acted up a few months ago, so I took it into a Sprint repair...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Holy cow! Glenn Beck's coming to Utah (and 350 other places)!
Get ready to be sick, twisted and freakay! Glenn Beck is coming to a "buttload" of movie theaters around the country on July 17 when his Dallas, TX live comedy stage show performance will be simulcast in HD nationwide...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
"John Adams" by David McCullough
I purchased a copy of "John Adams" by David McCullough at a local grocery store a couple months ago and finally finished it this last week. The book was first released in 2001 but, since then, the HBO television...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Using open source tools to capture my favorite radio program audio stream
Listen to any kind of syndicated talk radio program and you'll usually hear about some companion website the program has. Usually, there are a handful of free things you can get on a program's website, but many of these...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
"The Host" by Stephenie Meyer
Tonight, I finished reading The Host by Stephenie Meyer, the bestselling author of the Twilight saga of young adult vampire novels. The Host is Meyer's first foray into "adult" fiction and I hope this is just a sign of...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Book review: A Train To Potevka
Another book I read recently is "A Train To Potevka" written by Mike Ramsdell, a native Utahn. Ramsdell spent many years working in Military Intelligence (MI) and with his mastery of the German and Russian languages, was involved in...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Sliding through "The Blue Zone"
I've come down with a cold this last week. I took Thursday off work to try to rest and get better, but I don't think it really helped. I still feel like I've got a pool cue ball lodged...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
AmericanSolutions.com
My dad sent me a link to the American Solutions website. I checked it out and was impressed enough to sign up for an account on it. If you are interested discussing and affecting the direction of future policy in...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Quickie book reviews
I keep meaning to post some reviews of some of the books I've been reading, but it seems like I never do. So, to placate myself, I'm doing some quickie-reviews of a stack. "An Inconvenient Book" By Glenn Beck...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Reuniting with high school friends online
A couple weeks ago, I got an e-mail message from an old friend that I went to school with from first grade until high school. She was inviting me to join a social network she had set up using...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
New laptop: Dell Latitude D830
Yesterday, my new laptop arrived. KnowledgeBlue purchased it for me as my HP Pavilion ZV5000Z was about three years old and was starting to show its age. KnowledgeBlue has standardized on Dell as its hardware supplier and, while I...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Global growing
Do you remember when you were in elementary school and you learned that plants had some mysterious process that involved a substance called chlorophyll and energy from sunlight and it made them grow? Do you remember learning that plants emit...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Using my (updated) Treo 700p is painful
Talk about a frustrating experience! A couple weeks ago, I had to go to a customer's office to do some network troubleshooting work. On my way, I received two text messages, in quick succession, on my phone (Palm Treo...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Griping about Fedora 9
On Tuesday, 13 May 2008, the Fedora Project released the latest version of their Linux distribution, Fedora 9. I was able to get my hands on Fedora 9 the previous Friday after it was discovered "in the wild" on...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Liberal Fascism on YouTube
I've mentioned a thing or two about the book Liberal Fascism, but last week, Glenn Beck had author Jonah Goldberg on his TV program. I've uploaded the segments to YouTube for public consumption. Goldberg presents an interesting argument, not that...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Stop whining about closed IM!
Aaron's a good guy and a productive contributor to the local open source community, but he's blogging again about how we should all stop using proprietary instant messaging protocols and only use open protocols like Jabber/XMPP. I'm a long-time...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Barack Obama is a progressive fascist
I've been reading the book Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. The title of the book is guaranteed to set people off, one way or another and for this reason, Goldberg seems to spend a extraordinary amount of effort defending...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
World Trade Center video from 1/27/2000
Some people have seen this, but now I've uploaded it to YouTube. This is a video I put together on September 12, 2001. I guess it was my way of dealing with the grief I was feeling after the 9/11...
Doran "Fozz" Barton
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/



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