“Maybe it’s awesome” Props to Mr. Gruber for the perfect summary of Microsoft & HP’s tablet/slate prototype. Complete with stylus! That is just what the world is waiting for, two years post-iPhone. A stylus! Can’t wit for the demo. OK so seriously, there are a few things missing from this demo: twitter facebook gmail flickr [...]
Friday, September 11, 2009
For all the bits spilled on the subject of Michael Duvall, I have not been able to find anything about any potential penalties he may face. Can’t one of our many fine publications let us know? Isn’t he guilty of an ethics violation for every energy vote he didn’t recuse himself from? Wouldn’t that be [...]
Props to RR: he signed the UN Convention Against Torture. We had our differences, he and I. But on this particular subject, we are in perfect agreement. I looked around for a reference to his signing statement and part of it is unequivocal: The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of the [...]
Sunday, February 15, 2009
I’ve been a member of a credit union since returning to San Francisco, as opposed to using a standard-issue bank. There are pluses and minuses; the pluses being lower fees and rates (ie 12% on a credit card) and the minuses being less robust infrastructure. The other day as I was taking some cash out [...]
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Elizabeth “Biddy” Russell was the mother of a trio of childhood friends. They lived down the street in idyllic suburban Westmount. I haven’t seen or spoken to her in at least twenty years. Interpolating from my own memories and the news stories, the eldest two children have faced no small amount of challenge in their [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Ralph Nader just went on national TV, on Fox, and asked whether Barack Obama would be (from memory here) “Uncle Sam or Uncle Tom to the corporate interests.” Wow, Ralph. That was perhaps the most ridiculous thing I have heard this election, just a little head of Gov. Palin reading “all” of the newspapers. It [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Well, I’ve got to give props to Senator McCain for a classy concession speech. It was refreshing after he fought a dirty, underhanded, over-wrought campaign of fear, distrust, division and on occasion, outright hatred. John McCain is a flawed and better man than all that. Flawed in that he let Steve Schmidt listen to Karl [...]
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Our friends at CKOI in Montréal have just pulled a most marvelous prank, convincing Sarah Palin that she is speaking with Nicholas Sarkozy on the phone. Initial reaction: well, anyone can get pranked. After a painful listen, several things are remarkable about this: she repeats her talking points to the President of France she calls [...]
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
As I left work today I spied this truck: Now, those of us who are pathologically paranoid get our antennae up when a provider of internet connectivity puts a sticker reading “EYES & EARS” on the side of their connectivity installation truck. Of course it was AT&T that provided unfettered access to all of our [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Such is my skepticism that I believe — not think, believe — that our officials (not leaders!) in Warshington have taken this awful crisis as an opportunity to offer a sword to the Democratic party. “Take this sword,” they say, “and shove it in to your abdomen before I use it to cut off your [...]