Ron Paul for President 2012

July 29, 2011

What I write next will read like blasphemy if you have not considered the economics of voting. I usually do not vote in presidential elections. Why? My individual vote would not have made any difference in the outcome and even if it had made a difference, even that would have made almost no difference in [...]

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Thoughts on Debt Ceiling

July 26, 2011

1. The debt ceiling and appropriations are both decided by congress so the ceiling should have some provisions that force congress to adjust appropriations and/or debt ceiling to be in agreement or else some specific cuts are automatically made, so there is no mystery what gets cut – or what government assets get auctioned off [...]

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Slalom Set at 30 mph

July 20, 2011

Every once in a while I post something that explains the name of the blog.  Here’s a video of my slalom set yesterday. Thanks to Randy for driving and Hudson for being camera man. Their videos are on my YouTube account rogcollins. Check them out. Hudson got a PB of 6 balls @ 30 mph. [...]

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Non-technical first-level managers

June 27, 2011

I just finished a DO-178B avionics software project as a senior software engineer. It was somewhat a third career, going back to my first career. From this perspective as a former software engineering manager and former business manager with an MBA, I saw many ways to improve our team’s process, methods, productivity, and overall performance [...]

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Krugman on a free speech issue

June 3, 2011

I’ve been reading Paul Krugman’s blog recently because I wanted to understand interventionists better. I think I made a good choice – a Nobel prize winning interventionist.  In the following post he makes fun of a libertarian for profiling based on attending radical religious speeches. One observation about political talkers on any corner of the [...]

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Hidden Order

February 4, 2011

I used to have tons of books and now I’m down to only one bookcase.  (Downsizing is therapeutic.)  Now I keep only books I want to share with others.  Its my lending library. Hidden Order is one of the books in that bookcase. Broadly considered, economics is the study of systems that humans use to [...]

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Healing Our World

August 12, 2010

I’ve been busy working and have not updated my blog in months. I’m ready to continue posting my message to the world. I’ve accepted that it comes in phases. One of the best books ever written that explains how the world works is Healing Our World by Dr. Mary J. Ruwart.  Heads up, it’s old [...]

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

April 22, 2010

I don’t take time to read novels very often so when I do I make sure it comes highly recommended.  I just finished reading this book and loved it.  Swedish author Stieg Larsson pulled off a coup when you think about it. The book has a Swedish setting with Swedish characters and yet became popular [...]

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Symfony Great Except Documentation

April 5, 2010

When I developed my first commercial website about a decade ago there were no decent website development frameworks like Symfony so I created my own.  It even had a simple ORM known simply as the Entity class.  It made the rest of the development effort faster and more scalable. My decision was informed by a [...]

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Development Process

March 19, 2010

In recent post I mentioned an engineering process.  When most developers hear the word process they instinctively brace themselves for the overbearing, bureaucratic, time-wasting requirements that usually follow.  This is not that kind of process. Every development team uses a process whether it is documented or not. A good process makes work more predictable and [...]

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