Archive for February 2009

The monthlies.

• Media Is Blind To Obama’s Mandate

  In 2000, Texas Governor George W. Bush received less votes than Vice-President Al Gore. After a lengthy legal battle over the contested results from the tie-breaking state of Florida in the historically close election, a legal process that found itself in the Supreme Court, Bush was decreed the victor. Two months later, the president was [...]

• Jesus on Facebook

  I am in the midst of decommissioning my Facebook account — a process that began when I inadvertently realized I had 111 so-called friends; I am now at 11 — which is (surprisingly) having all sorts of reverberations (more on that… later… maybe). I’m taking a moment to remember my best-of statuses, or what I [...]

• Search Results Search Results

  I’m looking to revamp the search results pages — differing between tags, series and general search queries — but the WordPress Codex was no help, at least the search function… Image: WordPress Is this funny, or am I a geek?

• The Iraq Option

  Graduating from college, one always has options, some more enticing than others. I should already issue a correction: Unless your major studies were in the liberal arts and you did not have family connections, one always has options upon graduating from college, some more enticing than others. For me, one option was Iraq. It was [...]

• Gonzo Reilly

  Rick Reilly is not that funny of a guy, but he tries to be in his ESPN column, and I respect that. In his latest column however, Reilly abandons logic when he suggests that the 2001 MVP award should have gone to Luis Gonzales, as well as the home run record, because the actual winner [...]

• A Baseball Junto

  My baseball project is taking shape — but it is not ready yet. I’m not entirely sure if anything will come of this.

• Currently Reading

  Confessions of an Economic Hit Man confirms what you don’t want to believe about the United States: That our foreign policy is a mask for an all-out corporate push for a global empire. Confessions should probably become required reading at the high school level at some point, if only as part of the AP syllabus. [...]

• Tip of the Week

  I keep telling myself to keep everything in context. For example, what type of person reads a newspaper for tech advice? Probably not an internet savvy one, for sure, and most likely, an AOL dial-up subscriber. Nevertheless, this is the absolute worst tech advice I have ever seen, courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle’s tech [...]

• Press One Now

  I received this voicemail asking, er, demanding I refinance my mortgage… I wasn’t exactly sure of her instructions.

• Buffalo News’ Coverage

  The Buffalo News is liveblogging the plane crash story, including links to Flickr photos, and is compiling the list of confirmed victims. UPDATE — Footage from last night…

• Plane Crashes In My Hometown

  The location marker on the lower left is the approximate location of the plane crash in Clarence Center, and the marker on the upper-right is where I worked over the summers and during winter breaks while a student in Syracuse (as an intern for the Town Engineer)… The marker on the far left below is [...]

• Blogging Better, And Lasting Longer

  I am by no means an expert on the subject — nor do I intend to go all self-righteous Merlin Mann on anyone — but I still have a voice on the matter, and in my opinion, a reasonably authoritative voice. Within reason that is, of course. I have found that there are two ways [...]

• A Year Of Reading

  In the past year (give or take) I’ve managed to read the following books, the reading of which occurred exclusively during modes of travel… The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Two Percent Solution by Matt Miller The World [...]

• Super Friends

  I can’t get the theme song out of my head… Or this remix…

• Bipartisanship

  You’ve got to love the republicans, or at least respect them. They got trounced in the election. They lost the presidency in historic fashion. They lost seats in the House. They lost seats in the Senate. They lost governorships. The American people soundly defeated their principles, and their politics. The republican time of rule was [...]

• Vimeo Waiting

  There is usually not much of a waiting line with Vimeo, except for Sunday nights… Image: Vimeo My guess is that people are trying to upload the movies they’ve made documenting their weekend activities. I told you I was smart.

• McClatchy

  What I like best about McClatchy — besides the fact that their political reporters got the Iraq story right (the first time) — is that their individual reports online mimic the look and feel of a newspaper… Image: McClatchy I absolutely love that headline font.

• 25 Random Things About Me

  There is this meme going around Facebook. I usually avoid memes, and I hate using that word,* but there is no other way to describe it. The deal is you are supposed to post twenty-five random things about you. It was too enticing, especially since I am much more open on this blog, and have [...]

• Prefident Bush: Farewell

  An historic inauguration sends George W. Bush back to Texas, only for the nation to wonder what we had just endured, and what is to come… I will note that I did not draw the Obama character. That was a stock character that was available that I used in the interest of time. The other [...]

• Untagged

  Step two in my massive Flickr reorganization underway… Image: Flickr This is actually more time-consuming than geotagging, because a set of photographs may have the same location, but not the same people, activities or other aspects in the individual photographs that would be nice to differentiate with tags, say, a view of the Golden Gate [...]

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