Odds and ends

Hey everyone - I have a few posts rummaging around in the background (including a follow-up to my last post), but until they're done, here are a couple things to tie everyone over:

I've been posting on the LP Nevada's blog lately:

• Gun rights have nothing to do with militias
• The case for a $30/hour minimum wage

The first post is a more serious look at an issue raised by Marc Randazza on Popehat, though, for the record, I didn't read his article before I posted mine, which is a shame since he made my point better than I did. Moving forward, though, there's a strong chance that most of my political blogging is going to end up on the LP Nevada blog unless I feel the need to be contrarian and chew certain libertarians a new one.

On a more tech-ish note, we're being encouraged at work to decorate our offices. Here's the Christmas tree I put up on our door:

Though it's not obvious, there are some hidden spaces in there - if you want to run this yourself, copy and paste the following:

@ECHO OFF

CLS

SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion

FOR /L %%G IN (1,1,10) DO (

SET _Str=*

FOR /L %%H IN (1,1,10) DO (

IF %%H LSS %%G (

SET _Str=*!_Str!*

) ELSE (

SET _Str= !_Str!

)

)

ECHO:!_Str!

)

SET _Str=

FOR /L %%I IN (1,1,20) DO (

IF %%I GEQ 10 (

IF %%I LEQ 12 (

SET _Str=!_Str!=

) ELSE (

SET _Str=!_Str! 

)

) ELSE (

SET _Str=!_Str! 

)

)

ECHO:%_Str%

Until next time...