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On the Mittster’s departure suspension:
“Because I love this country, I entered this race, and because I love this country, I am leaving it.â€
On the Mittster’s departure suspension:
“Because I love this country, I entered this race, and because I love this country, I am leaving it.” Unfortunately, he means the race, not the country; [From The Beast is Red, Chapter 5: Soy un Perdidor]
I have been trying to contribute something each day, which means sitting down with GarageBand for a hour or so and seeing what I can cobble together, given some drum loops and my own rudimentary skills. Some days go better than others 😉 All of these should exists as GarageBand projects so if something sounds worth hammering on, sing out.
A month of music-making on public display (the RSS feed is here).
So far, it’s mostly junk of mine up there, but this weekend should get interesting. I have been trying to contribute something each day, which means sitting down with GarageBand for a hour or so and seeing what I can cobble together, given some drum loops and my own rudimentary skills. Some days go better than others 😉
All of these should exists as GarageBand projects so if something sounds worth hammering on, sing out.
Without reading the NYTimes piece, I would guess that the Obama supporters are able to persuade/convert others to their way of thinking in the caucus, while primary voters are left to their own thought processes…. On it’s face, that looks like the idea of a woman president, even one with the negatives Hillary brings with her, is more appealing than what Obama has to offer, absent the gentle arm-twisting of the caucus environment.
What is it about the difference between the two that gives Obama the edge in caucuses and Clinton the advantage in the primaries?
Without reading the NYTimes piece, I would guess that the Obama supporters are able to persuade/convert others to their way of thinking in the caucus, while primary voters are left to their own thought processes. My guess is that Obama’s candidacy inspires more people and allows him to attract more votes at a caucus than a primary. He’s all about hope and optimism, something we sorely need.
On it’s face, that looks like the idea of a woman president, even one with the negatives Hillary brings with her, is more appealing than what Obama has to offer, absent the gentle arm-twisting of the caucus environment. I’m outsourcing the comparisons of the two, as they appear today, to Professor Delong.
Can voters ignore their memories of the past to vote for Hillary? Regardless of how they feel about her, she will attract so much obstructionist nonsense, so much hate and division, it might be a waste of a Democratic Administration.
On the whole, I feel more confident about Obama’s unknown future than Hillary’s known past, regardless of how blameless she might be.
When you have an obsolete, inconvenient physical product that nobody wants in an era of universal online access, the appropriate strategy is clearly to raise the price.
When you have an obsolete, inconvenient physical product that nobody wants in an era of universal online access, the appropriate strategy is clearly to raise the price.
[From blog.pmarca.com: Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch]
[ via ] I had never heard of the Aérotrain . If the rolling stock was all going to look like that, we lost out.
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I had never heard of the Aérotrain. If the rolling stock was all going to look like that, we lost out.
Looks like the internets were down last night from 10:23 until 7:47, and this after that nice phone call from Speakeasy. <sigh> I did open a ticket to report slow connection speeds right before it went down, but I’m sure that was coincidence.
Looks like the internets were down last night from 10:23 until 7:47, and this after that nice phone call from Speakeasy.
<sigh>
I did open a ticket to report slow connection speeds right before it went down, but I’m sure that was coincidence. Anyway, things are looking up.
Since 2006 the project has helped fix 7,826 open source flaws in 250 projects, out of 50 million lines of code scanned, the company said.
…It is one of the few open source projects to clock in at a zero existing rate of defects for its 588,931 lines of code.
And in a good way.
They’re paying for open source software to be scanned for security bugs, and then fixing them.
All the software scrutinized was found to have significant numbers of security flaws, Coverity said on Wednesday. Since 2006 the project has helped fix 7,826 open source flaws in 250 projects, out of 50 million lines of code scanned, the company said.
They find, on average, one security flaw per 1,000 lines of code. And when the flaw is fixed, everyone’s security improves.
I was in the neighborhood and went into my local Apple store today (I had not visited since before Leopard shipped, and it was closed for remodeling then). I looked the iPod nano ($149 — less than the mini I bought a couple of years back and lightyears more advanced).
I was in the neighborhood and went into my local Apple store today (I had not visited since before Leopard shipped, and it was closed for remodeling then). I looked the iPod nano ($149 — less than the mini I bought a couple of years back and lightyears more advanced). Handled the iPhone and iPod Touch. It just didn’t seem real to be able to do what you can do with them. Looked at the MacBook Air. The store was quite crowded, even given the recent expansion.
Realized I am so far out of touch I’m surprised they let me in the door.