On Marketplace this morning, consumer advocate Jamie Court made a very imprecise statement of law while discussing arbitration clauses in credit card agreements. He remarked that the 7th Amendment guarentees a right to a trial by jury. This is not exactly true. The Supreme Court decided in Colgrove v. Battin that the Seventh Amendment preserves the right of a trial by jury in federal civil cases as it "existed under the English common law when the amendment was adopted."

I love my USB key. It is a 1 Gig Corsair Flash Voyager. Here is a review: http://www.maximumpc.com/2005/07/corsair_flash_v.html

I currently have the following portable applications installed: FoxIt Adobe Acrobat Reader, Damn Small Linux (Qemu Emulation for windows), freeCommander, Portable OpenOffice.org, Portable Firefox and Thunderbird, TrueCrypt, VLC media player, and GAIM portable.

I am still frustrated with the Democrats response to the Alito nomination to the Supreme Court.

I am growing frustrated with the Democrats who are trying to challenge the Alito nomination to the Supreme Court.

As a Democrat, I do not find Alito's nomination to be that objectionable. Secondly, I do not believe that the Democrats should waste the valuable political capital they have built up during the Plamegate fiasco to fight this nomination.

I recently installed UT2004 on my Ubuntu Linux Box. Installation was a breeze. (Breezy Badger, hah!) I inserted the first install CD, typed sh /media/cdrom/linux-installer.sh at the command line...and voila, the launcher started. When it asked me to change disks, I right clicked on the CD icon on the desk top, eject and dismounting the disk. Then I put in CD 2...ubuntu mounted the disk...automatically!...then i clicked continue...and so on until installation finished. Rel

I had an extremely frustrating experience this morning with a co-worker who needed help installing programs on her new laptop computer. It is a nice rig, AMD64, ATI mobility RADEON, good number of ports and accessories.

However, she was having trouble with her e-mail. AOL e-mail of course. She couldn't send attachments. And she was upset that Microsoft Word was only a trial version that was about to expire.