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Posted in social issues on Mar 18th, 2008
The following is the text of Barack Obama’s speech in Philadelphia, as prepared for delivery and provided by his campaign. (via International Herald Tribune)
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, [...]
Posted in social issues on Mar 17th, 2008
It appears that Republicans are voting for Hillary Clinton in late season primaries in order to either prolong the divisive contest between her and fellow Democratic candidate Barack Obama, or to outright boost her to the nomination. The strategy is based on their belief that Senator Clinton can be defeated by John McCain in November.
This [...]
The March 13th online edition of the New York Times has an article looking at the 5 - 10% of people who elect to have Lasik surgery and discover that it isn’t always a panacea. As one who had the surgery and is now ruing the day I ever considered it for myself, I [...]
Posted in diversions, family on Mar 13th, 2008
I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don’t know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don’t know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you.
I look at the world and [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 12th, 2008
The first instant messages I sent were within AOL’s “wading pool” using version 1.0 or 1.5 in about March 1993. Soon thereafter I left the wading pool and started swimming in the open, unfiltered Internet ocean. One of the first pieces of software I played with was the first version of ICQ. [...]
Posted in elsewhere, nerdliness on Mar 11th, 2008
Okay, I can see where my productivity over the next couple of days is going to take a nose-dive. Adding a wonderfully minimalist aggregation site to my daily rotation may require I rethink some of the other sites in that list. That or find an extra hour or two in the day.
You can check it [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 10th, 2008
Shawn Blanc has put up an excellent review of his new 15″ MacBook Pro over at his site. In the Unchanging section of the review he makes the point that Apple products age very well:
… it is not uncommon to see someone still using their four or five-year-old PowerBook on a daily basis. Even [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 9th, 2008
Snap Shots, those popup windows that give a preview of the target page of a link, are to my thinking highly annoying. You can turn the feature off by visiting their FAQ and finding the link that leaves a cookie on your machine to disable the feature on any pages you visit. Unfortunately, if you [...]
Posted in diversions on Mar 9th, 2008
Having grown up listening to The Beatles I am hugely pleased by the “McCartney reported inks deal with Apple” headline over at Ars Technica. No time frame yet of when the catalog will appear on iTunes, but I would suspect this will make a great “one more thing” bit at this years WWDC.
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 9th, 2008
For the past three days Sibylle has had the good fortune to attend a piano master class at a nearby university. The presenter, head of the Yale Piano department, spent an hour with each student, listening to their piece and then helping them to mold it, or improve it in some way. Some [...]
