The War - Part 1

I watched Ken Burns’ The War on PBS last night (PBS-HD, even better). Last night was the first part of, I believe, 8 in the series. The general theme is that Burns is covering WWII from the perspective of 4 towns, Sacramento CA, Waterbury CT, Luverne MN, and Mobile AL. Part 1 was devoted to […]

Loonie Might Be An Appropriate Term

"Canadians cheered Friday for their beloved loonie, reaching parity this week with the US greenback for the first time in 31 years, but consumers are not yet benefiting, and manufacturers are reeling."

Kind of makes me wonder what the hell they are celebrating, the exchange rate is leading to inflation for Canadian […]

Mattel Comes Clean in China, Not Here

"Now that Debrowski has apologized to China, it seems only fair for Mattel’s conniver-in-chief, Robert Eckert, to explain to American consumers why his company chose to scapegoat Chinese subcontractors while keeping the true death-peddlers on Mattel’s payroll."

Yeah, at a minimum I expect Eckert to do something more than kick the dirt […]

Look at ME!

"By early next year, 100 Silicon Valley business executives will be driving high-mileage plug-in hybrids, a testament to the seriousness of global warming and the earnestness of local leaders to help fight it."

It would be far more impactful and I’d be far more impressed if the "Plug-in Hundred" gave up private […]

Yeah, That Was Too Easy

Eric Rauchway is right, it didn’t require much in the way of intellectual cycles to link the UC Regents rescinding their invitation for former Harvard president Summers with the Chemerinsky affair down south…

By succumbing to a demand that they reject a controversial, though–as a former treasury secretary, university administrator, and respected [...]

Victimitis

"After the dismissals union officials said that the employer had “put temptation in their way” by allowing computer access to external internet sites. They called on all large employers to install a firewall program to prevent staff from being distracted by sites such as eBay, BBC Online and those that provide […]

!@#$()%^&#@#$% Firefox

Yesterday, among other things, I ranted about how my Firefox was grinding to a halt.

I don’t have the same problem that Berlind has cuz I’m on a Mac, but the root problem is the same regardless of whether you are on a Mac or Windows: Firefox’s memory leak. On average, every […]

Defrag Connector on Facebook

This is really very cool… one of the challenges you face when you are traveling to a conference is knowing who else is for sure going to be there. The Defrag Connector on Facebook aims to solve that, and in the process shows us how the social dimension around events can be easily exposed as […]

Renkoo Revisited

I wrote a post a while back about my observations on a demo that Renkoo did at the Techdirt Greenhouse event. Basically, I took the provocative position that I didn’t understand what their business was. Fast forward to today and some things are getting clearer.

First and foremost, as evidenced by the fact that they have […]

Netvibes Universal Widget API

I’ve been hoping for a universal widget standard for some time now, continue to believe that it’s the only way to rationalize the multiple widget frameworks that are available and only serve to confuse the marketplace.

Netvibes has been working on their UWA for a while, we (NewsGator) are using it with success and see […]

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