http://www.cauthon.com Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:23:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Things are busy, busy, busy, but I had to stop and check out a site I heard on the news this morning. The site is MyGallons.com, and it lets you pre-purchase gas at today's price. You can fill-up with your pre-purchased gasoline at certain gas stations without having ... http://www.cauthon.com/2008/07/02/everybody-can-be-an-evil-speculator/ One of the things I hate most about discussions on today's "energy crisis" is how so many people take inventions and men's ideas for granted. For example, when the issue of today's gas prices comes up, it won't be long until someone says that "we" need to think of ... http://www.cauthon.com/2008/06/24/mccain-invent-or-else/ In the years before I became an Objectivist, I thought I was liberal. I say "thought" because my position wasn't so much of a stance *for* the liberalism as much as it was *against* conservatism. I had a basic belief that individuals should be free, and I saw ... http://www.cauthon.com/2008/06/22/recount/ Via a post on Google Operating System, I learned today that Google Browser Sync will be discontinued at the end of the year. It was a pretty neat idea: You'd install a Firefox extension on your browser, which would upload your web history, cookies, etc. to a central ... http://www.cauthon.com/2008/06/18/google-browser-sync-discontinued/ This post contains my thoughts about a movie I saw this weekend, The Happening from M. Night Shyamalan. Just mentioning the theme of the movie, in combination with the seeing the trailers, is enough for any Objectivist or rational person to accurately predict the plot, so here's your warning: HUGE ... http://www.cauthon.com/2008/06/17/the-happening-spoiler-alert/ Last Saturday, my wife and I drove to Winnipeg, Canada to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. Why Winnipeg? We wanted to go somewhere new and we wanted to drive. Ashley and I hadn't been to Canada, so once the idea popped up during brainstorming it stuck. ... http://www.cauthon.com/2008/06/11/back-from-canada/ I saw Ironman the weekend it came out, and I really liked it. So much so, I went to see it again with a friend the next week (I think 300 is the only other movie I've gone to see twice). While the movie is by no means ... http://www.cauthon.com/2008/06/02/iron-man-and-making-money/ I know I haven't been writing much, but it's for good reasons this time. I haven't been working 60+ hours a week, either. I'm actually finishing up one of the most fulfilling months I've had in a while. Here are some of the things that I've been ... http://www.cauthon.com/2008/05/27/a-very-fulfilling-month/ Last December I wrote a post about "stream ripping" and its relation to the internet radio royalty issue. To quickly recap, I said that one possible effect of low, government-mandated internet royalty rates is the theft of that music through "stream ripping." I said that as our internet ... http://www.cauthon.com/2008/04/28/stream-ripping-is-a-piracy-problem/ Today is Earth Day, a day full of advice on how each of us can live a "greener" lifestyle. Today is a day for raising awareness of our planet and how we should balance our needs with its protection. In the spirit this day is supposed to be ... http://www.cauthon.com/2008/04/22/earth-day-advice/