Archive for April 2009
The monthlies.
A Tweet Future
Maybe my life is meaningless. I mean, outside of my wife and dog, my house and job, my family and belongings, really what else is there? I think I need to go on hiatus, on some sort of sabbatical. I need only a few things besides my brain and hands. When I re-emerge from solidarity [...]
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On the first floor to avoid the heat. # Sharks hockey. (I’m giving it a shot.) # To celebrate Earth Day, volunteers handed a green piece of paper to passengers on BART this morning. #irony # I spent two hours last night cleaning up XP in preparation for a partition. # Tom is the Skype [...]
Workdress Wednesday
Nearly two months ago, I scribbled an idea on the white-board in my office. Not a virtual one — an actual physical white-board with different colored markers on a tray along with an eraser that never seems to wipe the board clean. It read Workdress Wednesday. I threw in a dot-com just for kicks. In [...]
Sharks
I’m going to give it a chance tonight. That is, western hockey. Growing up in Buffalo and going to school in Syracuse, I have my obvious biases — Sabres and eastern hockey, Big East basketball, AFL football. But I live in the bay area, and I’d love to watch more hockey. Whenever the Sabres make [...]
Newsom Redux
I shouldn’t have, but I did. I read this article on TechCrunch hyping the Gavin Newsom announcement, in which it concludes that “the question is whether his opponents will be able to effectively use the same tools [Twitter, Facebook] without ringing hollow.” Really, that is the question? The question is not if Newsom can turn [...]
Newsom
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced his candidacy for governor with a tweet on Twitter, followed by a blog entry on the Huffington Post. You stay classy, Gavin. Disclaimer: I would vote for Newsom if he were the nominee.
Recruiter Spam
I do not care for recruiters. (And they’ll never get past my spam filter… never!) I wonder if he wonders if I can pass on a friend’s email that may be interested in a job in a certain industry with unknown duties in an unknown location and an unknown salary. (No one rings a bell.) [...]
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I’m trying to explain to my wife the difference between .htaccess/.htpasswd and WordPress log-in. # YouTube will be known as the biggest mistake Google made. # The dog is sleeping; Bill Moyers on TiVo. # I’m amidst a showdown over blog attribution. #
Overthrow
A keen observation… Conservatives are so incensed by warnings about the threat of right wing radicalism that they’re considering overthrowing the federal government. — Josh Marshall, very late last night. Tea, anyone?
Buy American
We should all do what we can to end the violent drug wars in Mexico. The first step is to curb “our insatiable demand for illegal drugs [that] fuels the drug trade,” as professed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and buy American… Image: Printfection
Currently Reading
I finished reading the Krugman book yesterday. I was on the train, and it was windy. Krugman laid out several arguments against the Bush administration’s failings on economic issues, however, reading them in 800-word columns didn’t tie everything together that nicely. It’s sort-of like me publishing a book of my blog entries. On second thought, [...]
Piped Tweets
The first draft of my tweet-scraping feed (using Pipes)… Now to make this work for private/protected feeds. The key will be the string and url builders. Stay tuned.
MacBook Redux
When I purchased my MacBook, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it, or so I believed, unlike when I purchased my desktop Dell four years earlier. When I was researching for computers back then, I simply wanted all-of-the-above. Did I want a dual-layer DVD burner? Of course, although to this day, I [...]
GOP
It is only fleeting, but it is a nice feeling… Today’s G.O.P. is, after all, very much a minority party. It retains some limited ability to obstruct the Democrats, but has no ability to make or even significantly shape policy. — Paul Krugman, today. But they will return; like moths to a flame.
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A pretty damn good Monday. # Sabres vs. Red Wings on TiVo. # House on TiVo. Thank you for spoiling, internet. # @tmrly Ahem, steroids. in reply to tmrly # @mrsjwns I know what you mean. I have thought about it too. Haiku is my friend. in reply to mrsjwns # Q: When is it [...]
Only Commas
I have been thinking, although that is not saying much, if it says anything at all. A lot of what I think about is obviously fleeting, thoughts on the weather and traffic, thoughts on what sounds good to eat, thoughts on what my dog may be thinking right now while I’m at work. These thoughts [...]
One Last Entry
This Bizarro cartoon from May 2007 is a bit dated now… I guess it is now more likely to request one last tweet. Image: Bizarro.com
The Parts of a Book
Not to get too involved in some prototypical blog entry destined for greatness, er, boundless greatness, there are three parts to any (good) book:* the first quarter, the middle half, and the last quarter. Now, some in-depth analysis of these three parts… The first quarter of the book is the getting accustomed phase. This is [...]
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I got beat-up on Twitter. # Life Lesson No. 17: Do not tell a political reporter that you are considering a run for Congress unless you mean it. # @ryanalward I find support from both the far left and far right. in reply to ryanalward # @ryanalward Australia, dude. in reply to ryanalward # @ryanalward [...]
Uninsured
There will always remain a portion of the U.S. population that is uninsured. There is no way around it. Any purported efforts to completely cover the uninsured are disingenuous because it is impossible to do so. When Hillary Clinton argued that her health care plan was better than Barack Obama’s during the 2008 primary because [...]
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