It’s official: Absolute Software is sending me to WWDC, along with our other Mac programmer.
Mike Cohen
A disgrace
Last night’s Democratic debate was one of the worst examples of molehill politics so far in this election cycle. Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolous decided that Americans are more interested in Obama’s “Bitter” remark, Rev. Wright, Clinton’s trip to Bosnia, and whether a candidate wears a flag pin than issues like Iraq, the economy, and gas prices. They didn’t even touch healthcare or the environment.
links for 2008-04-16
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Ishmael Khaldi’s story about growing up as a shepherd and becoming an educated world traveller and how he is helping his people make the transition from a traditional nomadic society to a contemporary Israeli society is remarkable and inspiring…
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this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.
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“Splogs,” or spam blogs, are one of the methods spammers have adopted to manipulate the blogosphere for profit. The phenomenon started getting really bad in 2005, when Google’s blog-hosting service, Blogger, was inundated with more than 13,000 fake blogs
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Your one-stop shop for information, gossip and discussion with the Flickr developer community
David Byrne: Come The Revolution
David Byrne writes:
What will happen when half the country is unemployed, with no medical insurance, stuck in a sheet rock house miles from public transportation? Theyâll be ripe for religion or revolution if you ask me. Bibles and bullets. Will they still support the billions a day spent in Iraq? I donât think soâeven now they donât. One would expect theyâll be pretty pissed off watching the rich and famous party endlessly and continue their glamorous lifestyleâor maybe not. Surprising to me, those being duped and exploited by banks and entrepreneurs often envy their âbettersâ?âthey want to be that person in the Beemer or Lexus, and will mortgage everything theyâve got to have a symbolic piece of it. Instead of anger and action we get envyâthe bane of every outside agitator, union organizer, and young revolutionary.
Bibles and bullets: Doesn’t this sound a lot like what Obama said, which the pundits have blown out of proportion? Instead of addressing the real problems and trying to do something about it, politicians would rather exploit hot button issues. with the mainstream media as their lapdogs.
Finished house painting
The same guys who renovated my kitchen just finished painting my apartment and putting down new laminate flooring in the living room. They also put in a new ceiling fan in the dining room and fixed lots of little things that were never quite right, such as TV cables which were run under the carpet rather than being properly routed through the wall and outlets that were switched when they really shouldn’t be.
links for 2008-04-15
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A Twitterrific-style desktop app.
New Camera Bag
I got a new camera bag from Crumpler, after reading Michael Mistretta‘s recommendation. I got a slightly smaller one, but it still has enough room to hold my D40x with one lens attached plus two more lenses and lots of accessories.
Evernote Invitations
I still have All of my invites are gone.I have 2 one Evernote invitation available for any of my readers who want one. Just leave a comment here.
Molehill Politics
Elizabeth Drew has a perfect term describing the state of the current presidential campaign: Molehill Politics. Instead of talking about real issues, Clinton and McBush are jumping on Obama for what he said in one speech, and that’s the top story in the news.
I don’t believe Obama said anything wrong. He’s absolutely right and this is a perfect example of what he was talking about. The government has failed most of us. Instead of talking about how to change it, they try to distract everyone with fake issues.