Wanna read something positively negative? Scott Adams (yes Dilbert Scott Adams) posted an entry pushing for folks to vote for California’s Proposition 87. The post isn’t the issue, it’s the comments. Unfortunately Scott found out the hard way that a majority of people who comment on political posts are commenting in the negative, and some with genuine fervor. I agree with Scott’s optimism, but the comments show the level of blind hostility and firing of personal attacks that are all too familiar from neo-cons. Typical, rather than attack the issue or present a positive solution they attack Scott and shoot back with illogical arguments and tangents.
On the days that this state really gets on my nerves, maybe for no other reason than it’s so damn far from most of the people I care about, I think of this Tim Easton song and I remember that Florida is as long as it is hot.
Bad Florida
She put her purse on the bar and it sat like a tombstone
She don’t need a car ’cause it’s so close to home
We’ll she’d get along until he came along
Talking bad Florida as long as it’s hot
Bad Florida, as long it’s hot
He’s always shine shine shine
For the strangers he meets
Shine shine shine and quick on his feet
When he came along in a week gone
Down to bad bad Florida as long as it’s hot
Bad Florida as long as it’s hot
It went cold down in Florida but he was frozen with time
She was a hurricane that broke every night
First he was wrong and then he was gone
Bad Florida it’s as long as it’s hot
Bad Florida as long as it’s hot
I’ll post more when I get some spare cycles, but had a very good time in Jacksonville Saturday. Josh and Joey have posted recaps. I really enjoyed hanging out with all of the nGen Works folks, more on that later.
This guy says that the Daily Show is over-rated and not funny. I’m not sure he’s qualified to judge given his talents at producing senior videos, weddings and debutantes. Texas Lutherans apparently have little time for Jon Stewart’s anti-Bush antics. Pity.
According to Port St. Lucie broadcaster Greg Wyatt, speaking at today’s Treasure Coast Media Breakfast, XM and the “little doggie company” will be packing it in over the next several months and possibly be gobbled up by OnStar.
I agree with Josh that it’s a bold statement and I admire Greg’s faith in “terrestrial” radio, however, I think that even if these particular services die the industry has undergone a major a shift. A/V Podcasts, VoIP, etc are going to be real contenders in the future. If satellite pay-for-play goes away it’s not because terrestrial radio has won, far from it. I know personally of smaller stations, not all that different from WPSL, that are beginning to embrace these new solutions and are adjusting their businesses accordingly. If they don’t step up they will go the way of the CB…and possibly the way of the satellites.
If I hear one more conservative columnist bas the fact that Gore has to drive and fly to promote his movie I’m going throw a chair. Global warming, whether you buy into the whole deal or not, exists insomuch as we (Americans) are energy whores and blatantly careless with our energy supplies, and that carelessness does have an environmental impact. Is it warming the Earth, I have no clue, is it damaging the environment - without a doubt yes. Address the issues, screw the hype.
I don’t need a movie with hurricanes to tell me I should probably buy a more fuel efficient car and turn out the lights when I leave the room. Nor do need to hear the right tell me everything is fine so they can go on shilling ultra-mega cars, building coal-powered prisons and basing it all on quotes from the professor of Earth Sciences at Oral Roberts University. Save it.
Just be accountable, recycle when you can, watch the lights, turn off stuff when you aren’t using it, drive less if you can and by all means use channel blocking to lock out Fox News, the reduced hot air from that alone could keep us all around for an extra couple of years.
Keith Oberman on the tragic un-comedy that is Fox News and the god-awful mess that is Bill O’Reilly…”The Sisyphus of morons if you will.” All that is wrong with the media and it’s neo-con assault of arrogance and ignorance, including expunging the transcript to replace his repeated bullshi#$, is flowing through his veins. You can see by the end of the piece Oberman is dying to have 2 minutes alone with this “false patriot”, we all do.
Oberman Countdown
via marc escobosa
If you’ve seen Microsoft Office Beta2 you know that you can “Save to PDF” directly from the Office button. Well use it while you can, because when 2007 goes to production that functionality will be absent. According to Reuters, talks between Adobe and Microsoft have come to a halt with Adobe threatening legal action if Office goes out the door with free PDF creation/save functionality. While there are a host of free or adware tools to “print to PDF” within Windows, native PDF generation would certainly be the preferred method. What I don’t understand is Adobe’s argument when native PDF is supported without fee to the user throughout OS X. I love it and would hate to see it stripped out, maybe Adobe refuses to consider Apple competition…no-one remembers Premiere anyway.
In order to avoid a legal clash, Adobe requested Microsoft remove the “save as PDF” option from the new Office and wanted to have users download the “add-on” function for a fee, said Heiner, who is also Microsoft’s deputy general counsel.
Further, Adobe asked Microsoft to also remove the ability to save a document under Microsoft’s XML Paper Specification, or XPS, format — a rival to Adobe’s PDF technology — and then charge a fee to add the XPS feature into Office.
Microsoft agreed to remove the built-in ability to save a document using both the PDF and XPS file format from Office, but refused to charge users a fee to download the two formats because there are rival products that already allow users to create PDF documents for free.
Not only did Adobe successfully block their own technology from being more widely adopted, they managed to get Microsoft to pull it’s own spec’d format. This makes no sense to me. Adobe could certainly take cues from other formats that have been “opened” to the market and as a results have driven wider adoption and increased marketshare.
Checkout the specktone ipod speaker box, love the furniture-feel.
