http://michaelwills.com Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:34:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a great post about McCain's VP choice. I guess I'm flabbergasted by this choice.  I rarely write about politics on my blog, in fact this is the first time.  I mostly supported Hillary, with reservations, but with Obama as the nominee I'm feeling excited by the prospect of an intelligent, ... http://michaelwills.com/2008/08/30/what-is-mccain-thinking This book has made more sense to me than anything I've read before about diet. Although the author doesn't use this analogy, it makes the large-scale food processing industry look a lot like the tobacco industry: huge corporations in the business of finding out how to make a product that ... http://michaelwills.com/2008/04/28/eat-food-not-too-much-mostly-vegetables   We just got our renewal to our State Farm homeowner's policy, and like every year, there's a rider with new exclusions of coverage. I thought this one was ominous: "This policy is revised to exclude coverage for loss arising out of nuclear reaction, radiation or radioactive contamination from any source, or any ... http://michaelwills.com/2008/04/27/important-notice-about-changes-to-your-policy This is in production and will be available next year. The electric-only version charges in a couple of hours, and goes for 120 miles. The hybrid version, capable of going 300 miles on a gallon of gasoline, will be on sale in 2009 for around $30,000. I want one.                   http://michaelwills.com/2008/04/24/the-coolest-electrichybrid-car      Although I've been a Hillary supporter up to now, last week's "debate" between Obama and Clinton on ABC was a turning point for me. Don't get me wrong, I still support Hillary, and I think she'd make a great executive, but I no longer am cheering for her to ... http://michaelwills.com/2008/04/20/what-passes-for-debate                  http://michaelwills.com/2008/04/19/an-engineers-guide-to-cats "If Evolution is Outlawed, only Outlaws will Evolve." I love living in Sebastopol. http://michaelwills.com/2008/04/03/bumper-sticker-seen-today In an amazing move by Microsoft, last week they capitulated to the public uproar from the web developer community and announced that they would release Internet Explorer 8.0, now in beta, set to render web pages in "standards mode," which means that it should now work with web pages developed to ... http://michaelwills.com/2008/03/17/hate-ie-update This year is the first year I find myself getting birthday greetings from corporations I've done business with in the past. This morning, my birthday, I got an automated call from the president Hansel Toyota in Petaluma, who we got our car from. I find it unsettling on many levels. ... http://michaelwills.com/2008/03/05/you-say-its-your-birthday Okay, so I'm getting a small discount for plugging this site, but it's small enough (5%) to influence me to place this link, but not to lie about the company. We've been looking to upgrade our memory in our Mac Pros from 4 to 8 GB. It sounds ... http://michaelwills.com/2007/12/18/shameless-plug