November 2008
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Todd's 2008 Top 5 For-Fee Mac App Picks →
I find this list so uninspired. Office? VMWare Fusion? Tell the users about something they don’t know about already. I’m surprised he didn’t go for the gusto and recommend Photoshop instead of Pixelmator.
iPhone Apps That Have Been Ringing *My* Bell...
After Brett posted his list of apps that are ringing his bell, I thought I’d post my list.
Juxtaposer - Lots of fun with images. Surprisingly easy to use.
Burning Monkey Casino - Great collection of casino type games in classic Freeverse, Burning Monkey style.
FrontPocket - I love Backpack and was waiting for a great iPhone native app. FrontPocket delivers and the few small qualms I have...
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/11/1... →
I am not surprised in the least about this bit of news.
uhmm... this doesn't seem very starbuckian
147xxxx:
Can I have a grande coffee? Sure! Would you like 6x that much coffee and bump your total up $12?
Can I have a tall soy chai? Yeah, aaaand would you like to try a coffee traveler with that? Uhm.. what? A coffee traveler - a 96oz box of coffee! Goes perfectly with a chai!
Uhm, can I get a refill on the bold? Sure.. heyy, would you like TONS of more coffee? like 85 more ounces!?
And...
“You have to work every day. You have to sit in the chair and stay seated. And...”
– Brent Simmons
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“Churches have every right to involve themselves in political issues, but if they...”
– http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2008/11/quote_of_the_day_111708.html
Expect Obama to move fast on FCC transformation →
clint:
Lipman has seen a lot of presidential transitions. He has been practicing Telecom, Media, and Technology law for Bingham for 25 years, advocating before the FCC, state regulatory bodies, Congress, and the courts. Lipman’s bottom line: With FCC Chair Kevin Martin moving on and his fellow Republican Deborah Taylor Tate termed out when Congress expires, Obama will appoint two, and maybe even...
Excellence through practice: 10,000 hours →
clint:
This idea - that excellence at a complex task requires a critical, minimum level of practice - surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is a magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours.
Ten thousand hours is, of course, an enormous amount of time. It’s all but impossible to reach that number, by the time you’re a...
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Interesting Google Street View Use
A few nights back, there was some breaking news in our area, and apparently, the reporters and cameras for the station had not yet arrived on the scene. What they showed on the news was the Google Street View of that location. They made sure to note that it was not live footage, but I thought it was an interesting use of Street View and wanted to mention it before I forgot it again.
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Starbucks Gold or Starbucks Card Rewards
If you frequent Starbucks, you have probably seen the new Starbucks Gold program being hawked. My drink of late is a double tall breve latte. (Now that cooler weather is coming, I’ll also be drinking a fair amount of soy chai.) In Fort Worth, this comes to about $3.70 before sales tax. When I was using the Starbucks Card Rewards, I got my breve for free. Let’s compare. I paid $25 to...
“My experience with the Converge VM didn’t really fit my previous...”
– How can C Programs be so Reliable? by Laurence Tratt
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Adiaphora and Community
In my graduate studies, I have studied, read, and written a lot about adiaphora, literally “indifferent things.” I’m bringing this up because it has huge, wide-ranging applications. From the earliest days of the Christian Church (For example, Paul writing that “neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters” in Galatians.) to the Methodist movement in England, this...
Watchwillw:
I feel like a dick. I can think of at least a dozen computers I owned in the last 5 years.
“It’s a hell of a choice between poverty and poison.” The fact that we can’t be sure that our e-cycling efforts are not going overseas is just an atrocity. I don’t feel so much like a dick as I’m outraged that we’re being duped into thinking we’re...
Review: Waterfield Cargo Mambo Combo
Introduction
A while back I wrote a review of the Levenger Bomber Jacket and my quest for a suitable bag for schlepping around my kit. Check the introduction to that review for a description of my situation, but basically it goes like this: I need to have a ton of stuff with me all the time.
It could probably go without saying, but I ended up sending the Levenger bag back. It just wasn’t...
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Fun with MacBook Pro Or: Revision A Hardware Is A...
Background
After I exchanged my first MacBook Pro that I bought on October 16 because of a failing hard drive, I began to experience problems with my wireless connection from the MacBook Pro.
@pburleson brought this article to my attention. It seems that many folks are having problems with the new machines. This was confirmed by the Genius that I spoke with this morning. He said there was a...
“1. Obama Baby: A child conceived after [ Barack] Obama was proclaimed President...”
– Did you ‘do it’ on Election Night? — chicagotribune.com (via chartier)
“Traffic tip for the days ahead: If you see a motorcade with police cars, black...”
– http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1265400,CST-NWS-motorcade07web.article
“Obama was recorded saying, “I don’t consider this to be a good...”
– http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581/page/2
An Open Letter to Barack Obama
Dear President-elect Obama,
In 2004, I saw your Democratic National Convention speech, and I said, “If he will run, I will vote for him.” I began listening to your podcast and following your work in the Senate. When you announced your candidacy, I said, “I will support him.” When my wife Ann Margaret and I attended the rally at the convention center in Fort Worth, Texas,...
