A South Dakota Moderate

You may or may not have noticed that things here were awful quiet yesterday. For months I have been fighting a very temperamental Microsoft Vista PC that often would not shut down, wouldn’t let me install programs or drivers, and just was a general pain in the a**. All during those months I had been [...]

I normally don’t blow my own horn, probably because I never have a horn to blow when compared with the other fine South Dakota Blogs but this caught me a bit off guard last night.
BlogNetNews is a feed aggregator on steroids that also uses some kind of super secret algorithm to rank the “influence” of [...]

If you’ve watched any TV the past few months, you have undoubtedly seen the commercials prodding the last few remaining Americans that don’t have cable or satellite TV that they will need to get a digital converter box prior to the changeover to all digital broadcasts in February of 2009. Our government leaders are even [...]

It has been 38 years and counting since a family acquaintance, Bill Shroeder, and 3 others were killed at Kent State University just down the road from where I was growing up. Up until then I had been effectively shielded from the Vietnam War but Schroeder’s death from shots fired by the Ohio National Guard [...]

I am in the process of upgrading the site to the latest and greatest version of Wordpress so things around here could get a little messy. I hope to have everything done this evening or tomorrow morning but that all depends on how compatible everything ends up being with version 2.5. Cross your fingers and [...]

Just a bit of shameless advertising here to let my handful of readers know that I am selling my prized Microsoft Zune MP3/Video player on eBay. Along with everything Microsoft includes I am also including an extra sync cable, a leather case with belt clip, and a Belkin Tunebase car charger with FM transmitter.
If you’ve [...]

I had hoped to use the weekend to catch up on the happenings in South Dakota politics these past few weeks but again other commitments have gotten in the way. Unlike with the past few weeks where work has taken me away, this past weekend and the days following have seen my basement filling up [...]

As another week dawns, so does another trip for me which again means light posting for a bit. So while I enjoy the sights and sounds of the cities of the I94 corridor in North Dakota (after a side trip to the Hub City) I would recommend you browse some of the fine blogs from [...]

Whoever said it never rains in Southern California must never be here when I am as it seems that everytime I come out here it rains. This time around is no exception as the whole week has been damp and cold (cool for those in South Dakota). Of course it is still better than cold [...]

I had heard of this the other day but more details have since come out.
A Sioux Falls couple that was born on the same day has died on the same day. Diana Kraft and her husband, Kent, both 67, died together Saturday of separate illnesses. Both were born on Sept. 2, 1941, and they’ve been [...]

As you might have noticed, posting has been real light lately and based on current circumstances it will continue this way through at least the beginning of March due to work concerns. I will be heading to Los Angeles  this weekend for 2 weeks and will try to check in as time allows but I [...]

Last week I got on my “Bully Pulpit” to rag on my local cable company about not carrying our local Fox station’s hi def feed. It really sucked that I had this nice expensive HD set all ready for the Super Bowl and wouldn’t be able to take advantage of it. Somebody must be reading [...]