It was C, then DCX...

A couple of random links about the Chrysler bankruptcy situation:

Relative sizes of Fiat and Chrysler

Statement from non-TARP lenders of Chrysler

Disclaimer

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Mac OS X: How to uninstall Google Software Update

Use Google software on your Mac? Want to disable the annoying automatic Google Software Update that it's impossible to shut up? This site gives tips for how to disable Google Software Update on Mac OS X.

And before all you Windows users tell me that it can be disabled in the preferences -- yes, it can be disabled that way on Windows, but not on the Mac. No idea why Google did that -- it's pretty unforgivable and just a horrible user experience. It nearly drove me to uninstall all of my Google software before I found this workaround.

Happy Earth day...

and Lenin's birthday.

I'd like to borrow this Easter tradition

Every year, two churches in Greece fire rockets at each other while services are held.

The revolution

This interesting article entitled The Coming of the Fourth American Republic aligns with my thesis that we have been in a slow-moving revolution starting about ten years ago. (Read about the Roman revolution to get more of an idea of what I'm talking about.)

And today's quote of the day is from the article:

as former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Herbert Stein said: “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”

Spreadtweet

Best abuse of Adobe AIR I've seen yet.

http://www.elliottkember.com/spreadtweet.html

(more fun: see the dog-eared corner in the upper left? pull it back...)

Junk

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To self quote or not

I have a large supply of self quotes from tonight's conversation with Patrick but I don't know if I want to go there.

I mean, I wouldn't want this blog to become all about me, or something.

Dear Microsoft

On my work account I use Outlook, connected to an Exchange server.

Search is SO SLOW in Outlook that I actually run Thunderbird in a separate window, do my searches over there over IMAP, and then find the date of the mail note that I am looking for, and then go back to Outlook and scroll through my Inbox to locate the message manually.

In other words, what I'm saying is the only reason I'm even running Outlook at all is because it has a task list and a calendar in it.

That Thunderbird code is open source. You might want to look through the code and see if they have figured out a way to make search faster than you have been able to and, well, take the code.