http://www.kivus.com Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:10:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Republican presidential candidates rolled through the heart of South Carolina in the year 2000, I was right in the middle of the action. I remember both John McCain & George W. Bush coming to the Clemson campus, and the feud among the guys on my hall about which one ... http://www.kivus.com/2008/01/29/no-longer-a-king-maker/ Stop me if you've seen this before, the slow pan up the desk to reveal "Guy Jones, Private Investigator" on the name plate. The camera swings around behind the desk, so the silhouette of a female can be seen through the window of the door. The door creaks open, and ... http://www.kivus.com/2008/01/14/a-private-investigator-with-a-modern-twist/ For a number of weeks I took a break. I took a break from listening to the constant dumb beat of the media doom and gloom, I took a break from listening to people like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid spew forth their ideas to "fix" our country, and I ... http://www.kivus.com/2008/01/09/back-in-the-race-my-thoughts-on-presidential-candidates/ With CES going in Vegas and Macworld occurring next week, the tubes are full of rumors dealing with media distribution. Some of the hot topics include: (1) a set top box for Netflix, (2) movie rentals via iTunes, (3) updates to the Vudu platform, (4) Quicktime versions of FOX movies ... http://www.kivus.com/2008/01/09/if-you-want-to-watch-the-rest-of-that-movie-its-going-to-cost-you/ With the recent release of the new Kanye West album and the new 50 Cent album, I figured it would be a good time to examine the current state of the highly publicized "DRM-free" music. My goal was simple, acquire DRM free versions of Kanye West's _Graduation_ and 50 Cent's ... http://www.kivus.com/2007/09/17/why-are-you-making-it-so-hard-for-me-to-buy-your-music/ Over the weekend, it "Quechup" got some press for unleashing a tsunami of spam on their unsuspecting users. Unlike most sites that allow you to parse your web mail (i.e. Gmail, Yahoo, etc...) address book, looking for contacts that are already members of the specific websites, Quechup sent out emails ... http://www.kivus.com/2007/09/04/is-upscoop-paving-the-way-to-unleash-spam-with-new-changes-to-their-privacy-policy/ We'll start off this recap by examining some of the "produced" segments. The first such segment, entitled _Feature Story_ featured an interview with John Edwards. It was a pretty predictable affair as he's getting his hair cut, has a facial mask on, cucumbers on his eyes, etc...all while talking about ... http://www.kivus.com/2007/08/01/the-12-hour-news-hour-recap-july-22nd-2007/ Yes, it's true. Existing in the wild today are conservatives who are in their twenties. Of course, when we go out, we normally have film crews following us: "Watch them enter those buildings. They come here every Sunday. We think they're called churches" the narrator says. "Then after attending these ... http://www.kivus.com/2007/07/31/tales-of-a-twenty-something-conservative/ One issue that most of the web media (i.e. podcasters, tech news websites, etc...) seems to have a consensus opinion on is Net Neutrality, namely: the government should step in and regulate the internet to prevent companies from distributing bandwidth via free market principles. It's for this reason that the ... http://www.kivus.com/2007/07/30/memo-to-washington-keep-your-hands-off-my-internet/ It's a familiar refrain among people in the "young" media (i.e. shows who have a target audience the skews towards late teens, early 20s). It normally comes out like this "Yeah, well, I thought we have freedom of speech in this country...". That simple phrase is used to defend all ... http://www.kivus.com/2007/07/28/freedom-of-speech-freedom-of-the-press-does-not-mean-freedom-from-consequences/ Over the past few weeks the news has been saturated with examples of young woman who no respectable parent would want his or her daughter to idolize. The stories of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears make one wonder if the current generation of young girls have anyone that ... http://www.kivus.com/2007/07/10/a-weekend-with-paula-natalie-brittany-and-the-lpga/ In order to properly discuss a number of important issues of the day (immigration, gasoline prices, net neutrality, etc..) a certain level of economic education is required. Now, I'm not talking about some of the stuff you'll learn in your standard Econ 101 or Econ 102 class, all of the ... http://www.kivus.com/2007/06/19/some-basic-economic-discussion/ With a few shows under their belt, the crew of the 1/2 Hour News Hour seem to working out which segments are simple one shots and which segments will be recurring. In this particular episode, we get 2 recurring segments: "The Evolving Male" and "Conspiracy Corner." "The Evolving Male" has ... http://www.kivus.com/2007/06/18/12-hour-news-hour-review-6-17-07/ Here are the latest videos of my golf swing, taken at the Knight's Play Golf Center on 6-17-2007. I'm starting to get my swing much more on plane, with the 2nd 5 Wood swing being probably the best swing of the three: 5 Wood #1: 5 Wood #2: http://www.kivus.com/2007/06/17/golf-swing-6-17-2007/ I recently posted the 1992 Speech from Al Gore, where he describes the threat Iraq and Saddam Hussein posed to America and the World at large. I got a response from an Al Gore fan, that rehashed some of the arguments the Democrat Party uses to explain how they could ... http://www.kivus.com/2007/06/13/responding-to-an-al-gore-fan/ After a strong showing last week, the 1/2 Hour News Hour did a pretty good job on their follow up effort. The overall solid show however, is overshadowed by Dennis Millers' _The Buck Starts Here_ segment, a segment that absolutely annihilated the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid. Though I will ... http://www.kivus.com/2007/06/12/12-hour-news-hour-61007/ After taking a few weeks to gain some more solid footing, the 1/2 Hour News Hour took a giant leap forward this week with a very, very solid show. The news segments were solid, the skits were better, the commercials were more concise, and most importantly, there was no glaring ... http://www.kivus.com/2007/06/12/12-hour-news-hour-review-60307/ I went out to the range yesterday to work a little on my swing. As you can see from these videos, I fell into some old bad habits of having a particularly flat swing. 7 Iron: 5 Wood #1: 5 Wood #2: Driver #1: Driver #2: http://www.kivus.com/2007/06/12/golf-swing-6-11-07/ Well, these videos aren't as good, since I took them with my cell phone (we won't discuss which one of my sisters forgot her camera...) Swing #1: Swing #2: http://www.kivus.com/2007/06/02/my-golf-swing-6-2-07/ "The Left's favorite Argument is there is no argument." Thomas Sowell started a recent column with this statement, a statement that rings true in both the Left's current strategy and what appears to be one of the Left's current primary goals: the stifling of the free flow of ideas through ... http://www.kivus.com/2007/05/31/a-page-from-stalins-playbook/