Derek Scruggs

An excellent secret-to-my-success post that I found via the Office Zealot Getting Things Done feed, which is back up after a few months of silence. Here’s his advice on how not to get ahead.

So many people I meet are unresponsive. They don’t return their phone calls promptly. They don’t answer their emails quickly. They don’t […]

This headline jumped out at me today and for a moment I thought I was reading the Onion:
Pro-abstinence youths gather as pro-sex convention wraps up
The article is here.

After seeing Fred Anderson’s post about PersonalDNA, I had to give it a try myself. As it happens, I came out with the same macro result as Fred (Animated Leader, Myers Briggs’ ENTP – you can see my full results here).
As Fred mentioned, one of the cooler things about PersonalDNA is that you can invite others […]

I haven’t followed the whole Dubai port thing enough to have an opinion, but it’s striking that some Republicans see this as part of a pattern of abuse from the White House.
“This was a sound business decision,” said a senior Republican operative of the Dubai deal, “and an absolutely inept political decision. But this is […]

Today in Gmail I clicked on the Spam folder to make sure there were no false positives. Check out the RSS item at the top.

…so of course it must be the fault of the Jews. I can understand (but not agree with) the American flag, but why drag Israel into this? Sigh…

The Samarra Shrine, before and after. Imagine a similar attack on, say, Notre Dame or St. Peter’s Basilica

Update: TIME has a good photo essay here.

I’ve heard several informed reporters comment that a low-level civil war has been under way in Iraq for quite sometime. Today’s apocalyptic attack by Sunnis against Shiites looks like Iraq’s version of the attack on Ft. Sumter, though bloodier.
Even Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, long a voice of restraint in the face of violence against his […]

I just came across this site courtesy of Brad Feld: Save Google Free China
Let me state at the outset that I am disappointed that Google is censoring results in China. However, I don’t believe they have a choice. If you set up shop in a foreign country, you have to follow their laws. […]

I agree with David Velleman at Left2Right. Having had my own recent brush with kooky holocaust deniers, I know that they see things through the crackpot worldview and looooove conspiracy theories, especially about Jews (of course).
David Irving has been shown to be a fraud in a court of law, and he has no one to […]