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The arrogance of the left

Published on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 By Brad Wardell In Current Events

Yesterday Bill Maher demonstrated the kind of attitude that is all too common with liberals: Intellectual arrogance. They believe that they have a monopoly on enlightened thinking.

On Hardball with Chris Mathews, Maher says, "We know who's on Bush's team, we keep hearing about how the God fearing people are with Bush. Fine. But what about the people who believe in say science?"

The meaning that irrational religious whackos like Bush while rational, intelligent, people who believe in things such as logic and the scientific method are -- like him -- liberal.

Care to take a poll on who most professional practicioners of science are going to vote for, Mr. Maher? It's pretty rare to meet an engineer, for instance, who favors liberal positions. That's usually because in my experience liberal positions aren't based on science but rather warm fuzzy emotions.

Understanding Kerry

Published on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 By Brad Wardell In Republican

I'm trying to understand Kerry's various positions.

He said at one time that Saddam and his WMDs were a threat that needed to be taken care of. Later he said that Saddam was a diversion from Afghanistan. Despite that, he voted for giving the President authorization to use force against Iraq. One wonders, if he thought Iraq was a diversion, why even give the President such authorization?

He later said we're better off with Saddam gone but then in an interview months later says he wouldn't have gone to war with Saddam because it distracts from the war on Al Qaeda.

But then even later he says that even knowing what he knows now he would have still voted for the war resolution.

Yet today, in an interview with Diane Sawyer he says that knowing what he knows today he wouldn't have voted for it.

But when asked if going into Iraq was worth it he states:

SAWYER: So it was not worth it?

KERRY: We should not -- depends on the outcome ultimately and that depends on the leadership, and we need better leadership to get the job done successfully. But I would not have gone to war knowing that there was no imminent threat --

Well wait a second, depends on the outcome? What kind of nonsense is that? And if Iraq wasn't an imminent threat, why did he vote for the war resolution in the first place?

I'm really trying to understand Kerry's position. Perhaps it is too "nuanced" for me.

Personal Pages on WinCustomize.com

Published on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 By Brad Wardell In Community

Here's a preliminary list of personal pages on WinCustomize.com. I am creating this article from my articles tab on WinCustomize.com (frogboy.wincustomize.com). Such articles also get syndicated over to JoeUser.com. And in fact, articles that are of the category "Politics" get syndicated to JoeUser.com and PoliticalMachine.com. Articles on gaming would get syndicated to JoeUser.com and TotalGaming.net.

Right now, only WinCustomize subscribers ($20 for 2 years) can get personal pages. That will soon change to be people who also have apprentice access and up. The WC2K5 personal pages are kind of like "super blogs" in that you get more than just a personal page for writing articles/journals/blogs but also several other tabs for uploading images, skins, themes, personal profiles, etc. You can see mine at http://frogboy.wincustomize.com.

Here's the full list:

To subscribe to WinCustomize.com, go to https://www.wincustomize.com and click on the store tab.

WinCustomize popularity over time

Published on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 By Brad Wardell In WindowBlinds

For fun I used Archive.org to look at the daily downloads of the top 5 WindowBlinds skins from 2002 and compared them with where they are today:

WindowBlinds	Sep-02	Sep-04
1st	1480	1876
2nd	1407	1592
3rd	815	1233
4th	466	865
5th	403	734
Total	4571	6300

So the good news is that WindowBlinds skins seem to be getting more and more popular over time showing that third party Windows customization continues to grow as a trend.

WinCustomize Personal Site List

Published on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 By Brad Wardell In WinCustomize News

Next Monday, those users with Master Apprentice access and up will be able to create their own personal pages here on WinCustomize along with subscribers. Here is a recent list of personal pages you can already check out:

Stardock positions available...

Published on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 By Brad Wardell In WinCustomize News

For a list of what jobs Stardock is hiring for click the link below...

Stardock Positions available

Published on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 By Brad Wardell In Work Reports

Stardock is a pretty fun place to work at. That's probably why our turnover is so low. In fact, I'd say much of our success rests on the fact that we have such low turn over. And our rapid growth has created all kinds of opportunities that we haven't had before.

Stardock is located on south eastern Michigan. The weather is very pleasant here in this part of the state most of the year with Winters being well..wintery but not brutally cold. It's pretty hard to compete with Michigan weather in the Spring/Summer/Fall where it's beautiful and not too hot or too cold most of the time. This Winter, we'll be moving to a brand new buiding that we're very excited about because it is in such a great location, very nice environment, and whose interior we have collectively, as a team, designed.

So what positions are available presently?

Position	Description	When
Media Relations Laison	Someone who will help write media guides, press releases, mini-releases, news items, and work with our PR people to help ensure they get out there. Also would help write documentation.	Now
Senior 3D Modeler	Someone with several years of serious industry experience in creating 3D models for use in games.	Now
Senior Game Developer	Someone with 5 years or more experience writing computer software that is very resourceful in being able to learn new things and enjoys playing and creating PC games	Now
Technical Advisor	Entry level position for young enthusiastic person who will help us support customers electronically or via phone. Room for rapid advancement	Now
Sales Executive	Someone interested in selling Stardock's solutions to companies.	Now

WindowBlinds reviews on CNET

Published on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 By Brad Wardell In WinCustomize Talk

With WindowBlinds 4.4 released, the reviews have been reset on Download.com.

If you'd like to review WindowBlinds (we'd appreciate it if you would - even if it's not a positive review) please go here:

http://www.download.com/WindowBlinds/3000-2326-10321098.html?tag=sptlt

WC2K5: Personal Sites viewable by all..

Published on Monday, September 27, 2004 By Brad Wardell In WinCustomize News

Users with WinCustomize subscriptions can create their own personal pages on WinCustomize that become sub-domains of WinCustomize.com (example: http://frogboy.wincustomize.com).

This week ALL users can view other people's personal sites. Moreover, those of you with personal sites can now promote your personal sites to others so that they can see your skins, themes, icons, wallpapers, articles, or whatever.

The site will track the most popular personal pages and let you know who is linking to your personal page and how many people have come from there.

If you want your own personal page, you can sign up for an account by clicking on the store link above.

Bloggers making "poor choices"

Published on Sunday, September 26, 2004 By Brad Wardell In Blogging

It never ceases to amaze me how quick some people are to spit on those that are giving them something for nothing.

Just so that others can be pre-warned, don't call me a "Nazi" or "Fascist" or any other hateful name. I don't have to put up with it. And I won't. I don't know what the deal is with the far left wing people on the Internet and their fixation with calling people "nazis" and such. Do they even realize that Nazi stands for National Socialist. They weren't right-wing in any way. They were socialist (by definition). And the vegetarian artist from Austria that helped found the Nazi party would in no way be considered "conservative" by anyone reasonable.

But regardless, I don't appreciate being called hateful names and the fact is, I own the site. I invite others to share this server with me for our mutual benefit. But I am not going to put up with nonsense from anyone.