Blood is thicker than water, and much tastier.
How apropos of the date.
Category: observations
Lying is not a technicality
From a letter to the editor I sent last week: they replied with a
query for contact info which usually means they are going to run
it.
The lies didn’t start with I. Lewis Scooter Libby
and his false testimony and it’s plain they won’t end there.But regardless of your political affiliations or your feelings about
the administration’s conduct, lying under oath is not acceptable.
We expect no less from school children, after all.Instead of focusing on whether or not perjured testimony was justified
— I can think of no case where it would be — we should ask why
Libby lied? Who or what was he protecting? That is what Patrick
Fitzgerald will discover, no matter how much sand is kicked in his
face, as he so aptly put it.There must be a reason why someone would dishonor their oath of
office and the oath to tell the truth to the federal grand jury:
who are they serving, if not their country?
Apple sells a million video downloads in 20 days
Apple sells a million video downloads in 20 days:
Apple just sent out a press release announcing that they’ve sold more than one million video downloads through the iTunes Music Store (they know as well as we do that sooner or later they’re going to have to change that name).
iTunes Media Store, anyone?
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it’s that time of year
National Novel Writing Month – NaNoWriMo:
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It’s all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that’s a good thing.
entropy
More entropy at work.
My DSL line is being flaky: actually my landline phone service is at fault. I ended up moving the DSL modem/interface into another room and pulling cable back to the Airport. Of course, I have an Airport that dates back to the 20th Century with just one Ethernet jack, so I had to leave the wired network offline and just support wireless connections. This of course meant that this website was offline, and anything hanging off the wired side of things — like my iTunes music collection or printing — was also unavailable.
Things seems normal now, so all is back as it should be.
I am looking into getting a newer Airport Extreme (with two Ethernet jacks and possibly an Extreme card: I have one in the iBook but have never knowingly used it in an 802.11g network). Power-over-Ethernet sounds like a good idea; I guess I had forgotten they offered that. Though the used/eBay market may not yield one that snazzy.
For reasons unknown, Google AdSense cashed me out today, paying me the $60 I earned. That will help.
outrunning the bear
There’s the old story about the two management trainees in the woods, surprised by a bear. The two of them take off, but one stops to change into running shoes. The other says, “you’ll never outrun a bear.” The other replies, “I don’t have to outrun the bear: I only have to outrun you.”
New Mac:
I suppose Apple doesn’t have too much to worry about, most people who’ve gotten used to an OS X laptop aren’t going to be driven back to Windows because it runs a little faster. But I’m not most people; I use this sucker for heavy lifting, and as soon as there’s some x64-based meat-grinder running Solaris that turns on instantly after sleep and and anti-aliases well and Just Works with whatever wifi, and doesn’t make me download drivers to do basic stuff, I may be outta here. Unless of course, Apple manages to get their act together and start shipping laptops that are delightful, not merely adequate.
So will Apple keep making hardware that sucks less than the other guys? That’s the real question. There may be some platonic ideal — What Tim Wants — that’s worth striving for, but in the here and now, computer makers just need to make their stuff better than the other guy, which in a world with MSFT and DELL, ain’t exactly impossible.
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forks, aimless
I saw a posting on a mailing list where someone said he used “Gentoo linux” and wanted to know how to do something in a different OS (OpenDarwin). I wondered, how many linux distros are there? I have always thought there were too many, so I put the question to Google.
Opinion: There are too darned many Linuxes:
By my count, there are one million, two hundred and seventy thousand, and four hundred and seventeen Linux distributions.Nah, I’m kidding. There are only, by my quick count, one hundred and forty one Linux distributions. Currently shipping. For the Intel platform. In English. Is it just me, or is something wrong here?
Though opinions differ:
What’s up with that?
I couldn’t name the 9 BSDs (I only know of Free, Open, and Net as extant). But what’s with all those distinction w/o a meaningful difference distros in the Linux world? What are the reasons to fork yet another distribution in an increasingly crowded (and not exactly competitive: do any of these charge for anything but media?) marketplace?
What it the point?
map your audience
Yet Another Google Maps hack
Frappr uses Google Maps to present the locations of people who share some type of affiliation. Frappr maps can have whatever theme you choose. I created one for Crooked Timber readers. You can add your own location (with or without photo plus a short message)
and if you’re not reading CT, you should be, of course.
when recommendation engines go bad
Apple’s iTunes Store has a recommendation engine, but I’m not sure it’s fully-baked. Some of the picks were pretty odd, but this was the wackiest.
