August 2006 Archives
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flickr picks up over a million geotagged photos in 24 hours. awesome.
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this isn't happening
I have the Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism up on the wall in my office. I don't think Donald Rumseld knows what the hell he's talking about. But then I've thought that since the day he took over the Pentagon.
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hard on the outside, yui on the inside
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stop wearing clothes to airports, you might offend people and miss your flight
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Courtesy of the Flickr Favorites Browser.
Today I snapped on the inside. Just a little. Some poor shmuck at an unamed vendor's support center got a little snotty with me in e-mail and I got a little more snotty back. Oh I talk a good game when nobody is listening, or reading as the case may be. But when it's face to face or more likely e-mail to e-mail, I tend to compose a really heated response, delete it all, and then start all over. This time, not so much.
Oh, it wasn't bad, I was just very blunt about the support situation. But tonight I got to thinking that behind every disaster lies an opportunity. So what opportunity can be taken advantage of in this latest vendor letdown?
Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
Success, success, success is over
Why'd you have to get
So fucking useless
Bloc Party
Positive Tension
I got nothin'...
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The Flying Spaghetti Monster appears!
So, there was a dust-up about hacking a MacBook Pro via AirPort. Some people were "oh hell yeah it's f-ing on apple is p0wn3d!" and some where more skeptical. John Gruber has been on the case since day 0, trying to get at the heart of the matter, swiming upstream against the hysteria. Today he unleashed an extremely comprehensive essay. The first place I saw linking to it was Infinite Loop, who itself was all about the hysteria. I checked the
forums and it seems that a good portion of the fine readers at Ars can't really wrap their heads around "unequivocal."
It's quite depressing.
Note to forum trolls at Ars...don't try and take on Gruber. You are out of your league. Way, way out of your league. And by "out of your league" I mean "not only are you not even playing the same sport, you aren't even on the same planet."
For once it actually worked. I'm amazed. I went to San Francisco for my birthday, I took pictures, I posted them to flickr and all most of the people that needed to see them saw them.
I love it when a plan comes together.
Now if I could just get more people into last.fm my plan for world domination a global frequency (tuned to me of course) could be realized.
It appears that my affinity for wine has not gone unnoticed...
Many thanks to all who made the weekend what it was (this includes Scott who was no doubt woken up and forced to do my job at an ungodly early hour this morning) and to those who will make weekends yet to come what they will be. Many more photos are yet to come, I promise...and not all of them are flattering. You've been warned.
Wow. Just. Wow.
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vitamin chats with simplebits dan
It's sad that one of the most insulting things I've read aimed at Jews lately is from a Rabbi.
I simply do not understand why so many Jews bailed on Joe. I cannot understand why Joe's percentage of the Jewish vote was not in the high 90s instead of the 54-57 percent range (according to Lieberman’s campaign). I have opinions on way too many things I don't know nearly enough about, but I know about Jews. I am a professional Jew, and yet if you asked me to explain why Jews did not vote for Joe the way blacks voted for Barack Obama or Catholics voted for John F. Kennedy I would not know what to tell you.
Maybe it's because racial/religious/ethnic blocs in America don't vote based on skin color or holy books. Maybe, just maybe they vote for the cadidate they believe in. Maybe people think for themselves and don't cling to any thread of familiarity they can find with a candidate.
Does it even matter that Obama was running against Alan Keyes, another black man? I doubt it. Illinois wasn't going to elect Keyes. Catholics voted for Bush in droves, 52% to be exact, thanks to a number of ballot issues the GOP got on the board, like all the 'Hate the Gays' amendments and the misnomer that is "The Culture of Life." Yes, the issues are more complex than that, but those are the things that annoy me the most, so they get mentioned.
Gellman goes on to explain in great detail that he doesn't get it. Funny, I could have told him that after reading the first paragraph. Joe lost because the people don't believe in him anymore. The fact that he is Jewish means nothing if he can't represent them in the Senate. They feel he failed to do that, so they voted for somebody who they thought could do the job better.
Telling somebody who is Jewish, or black, or latino, or asian, or Muslim, or Catholic that they have to vote for a candidate based on skin color or religion is really demeaning. You should know better, Rabbi.
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What have the Romans ever done for us?!?!
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nice breakdown of the recent rails patch-fest
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If we refuse to be terrorized, then they lose -- even if their attacks succeed.
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a windows blogging tool that plays well with others? what planet am I on?
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you see, it's funny because he doesn't drink anymore.
Originally uploaded by hornbuckle.
I build my canopy of steel
It fulfills my sense of real
A chrome protection
Crank
Catherine Wheel
Because posting photos of cats is so 2005.
Yes, it's quite stupid of me to claim that Leo Strauss lacked good sense as the man could think circles around me in his sleep. Back in June of 2004 Haper's Magazine published an article by Earl Shorris about Leo Strauss entitled Ignoble Liars. If you've already read it, read it again. Let this be the lens that you see our current foreign policy through.
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All we have to do, is not be who he says we are.
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the ultimate plan to fight terror
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shhhh, it's a secret
I finally added a way to flush the cache in my Flickr Fav Browser.
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Sounds like some rails site are about to get p0wn3d
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Global Warming Is Great - the stupid...it's burns
No, it's not a word, but it's fitting nonetheless. TPMuckracker did some chatting with the Lieberman campaign about their web hosting.
I asked Hubbell what kind of account the Lieberman campaign was paying for, and if earlier accounts were accurate that the senator's camp had taken only a minimal $15-a-month contract.
"They were actually paying quite a bit more, with over 400 gigs of bandwidth a month," Hubbell said. Hubbell declined to give an exact figure, but Geary said the campaign had been paying around $150 a month for the hosting service. (Earlier, Geary told Paul Kiel the campaign paid "a bit more" than the reported $15 monthly fee.) [empasis mine]
Wow. 400 gigs a month. That sound like a lot except that I get over 1TB from Dreamhost and they charge $8/month. Joe could have saved $7 a month if only he had known.
Ah...those crazy headline writers are at it again.
Update: You know, I understand that CNN is under the gun and has to have stuff up as soon as it happens...but they have "editors" on the payroll that can come along after the fact and clean stuff up. It's not like they're a bunch of bloggers...
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Aren’t these questions completely obvious?
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network management with a pretty interface
4:30 AM EDT: Wake up and get ready
5:00 AM EDT: Depart York, PA for Philly in rental car
7:30 AM EDT: Return rental car and take shuttle to terminal
8:00 AM EDT: Check-in, security, coffee, paper.
9:30 AM EDT: Board plane bound for Phoenix, AZ
10:45 AM EDT: Take-off
12:05 PM MST: Land in Phoenix
12:42 PM MST: Boarn plane bound for Oakland, CA
1:05 PM MST: Take-off
3:00 PM PDT: Land in Oakland
3:45 PM PDT: Board Air BART shuttle to Oakland Coliseum
4:15 PM PDT: Board BART bound for San Francisco
4:55 PM PDT: Board MUNI bus bound for Twin Peaks
5:30 PM PDT: Depart San Francisco in Subaru bound for Chico, CA
8:50 PM PDT: Arrive in Chico, CA
Photo by Brian Hall
Today's travel adventure was made possible by 2 mochas, 1 personal sized slice of pizza, and 1 cookie.
