Microsoft lobbying campaign backfires; even dead people write in support of firm. I can’t believe how unethical this is. If they are doing stuff like this here, what would lead you to believe that they were above the board in the other parts of their business practices?
I have to take issue with today’s post over at n0d.org. I do not believe that the wrist is the waist of the arm. I instead, believe that the elbow is the waist of the arm. Sure we wear watches on our wrists like we do belts on our waist, but the wrist is nowhere near the middle of the arm. This would cause a massive balance problem, and therefore the wrist cannot be the waist of the arm. Could you imagine if our waist was at chest level? How ridiculous. Care to support the cause? Email me your reasons why the wrist is not the waist of the arm. (contact link above.)
I’ve come to the conclusion that I am an American League guy trapped in a National League city.
Happy Birthday Blogger!!. Now, would you please let me pay for an enhanced service? In all seriousness, tomorrow is my second anniversary of having a blogger account, and while Bump is almost 4 years old, the last two years have been much easier to maintain and keep up with due to my use of Blogger.
Happy Birthday Dad!!!
Dot-Com Builder: Web Services There’s a ton of stuff here that is of interest.
Obscure Law Used to Jail Day Laborers in Georgia. Man there’s some nasty stuff here, I could pull out any one of a number of ugly racist comments made by my neighbors to the North. I’m embarassed to live in a State where this is going on. I’m moving into a neighborhood where I am a minority, and I would never want to be treated the way these people are being treated. It’s shameful. (via Rebecca’s Pocket)
I released the software I’ve been working on to the end users today. I’m now in that pause. You know the one. When something is done, but you really know that something, at least one big thing, will come up that needs to be fixed. At the same time, the next set of tools need to be released shortly, so I better get back to work.
Having a hard time getting started this morning. This is surprising, because I finished the first leg of development yesterday, and all I have to do this morning is clean up presentation and some QA on the code I wrote over the last five days. Should be a fun breezy morning after the last few days I’ve had. Can’t get going though.
Still looking for desktop wallpaper that suits your taste? Looroll Wallpapers
infoSync has the scoop on the new Jornada 560 series. They also have a “screenshot” of the Pocket PC 2002 Operating System. (It looks like Windows XP, and isn’t genuine.) PocketPC Devices continue to roll along.
Lotsofskins.com. It looks like there are err lots of skins here.
codephobia: programming tutorials to cure your fear of code.
There’s not much else on static5 right now, but something about this Flash animation made me say hmmmm.
Boy am I bleary eyed. It’s been a while since I had this much code to create for my employer. It feels quite good to visit this brain encapsulated world again. This weekend, in addition to coding about 45 of the 80 or so scripts I wanted to get done, I spent about four hours cleaning the pool at my new house and trying to get the chemical balance in the water right. It’s going to be very rewarding having a pool, and I mean to include the hard work of maintaining the pool in that. If only I could already be moved into the new house without the hard work of packing and unpacking. Now, time for bed. See you in the morning.
DaveNet : Google upgrades the Web. Apparently, Bump is one of the sites they are indexing regularly. If you do a search on any of my posts from August 16th, August 15th, or August 13th, I come up as the first result. This is excellent progress for tracking news.
Man Macscripter.net is all over Applescript. How do I not know about this site?
Odd that in the first picture on this page they don’t show the very long line that I experience, along with great soft tacos, at least once a week.
I have been downloading wallpaper from dead dreamer. Excellent stuff.
My name is Robert. This is a test post to Blogger from Frontier on Mac OS X.
Better Living Through Software “Computer people are disproportionately INTJ on Meyers-Briggs Personality type, and are disproportionately likely to consider themselves smarter than everyone else. In a company of 40,000 computer people, you don’t have two poles of debate; you have approximately 40,000.” Hehe so true.
So I stopped smoking as of midnight last night. I opted to just go with the Zyban and see how things go rather than add the nicotine patch to the mix. I’m of the opinion that the patch will just make the pain last longer. The flip side of that is that my first couple of days are going to be worse. The Zyban, however, seems to do a decent job of taking the edge off of the craving.
Palm seeks software boost with Be buy. Palm was not one of the suitors I expected for Be at all. On the other hand, this might give Palm the foothold in the appliance market they need to counter Windows CE’s range from set tops to handhelds. I’ve been reading Breaking Windows, and one thing that it impressed upon me is the success of the Windows Everywhere strategy. It’s tough to fight against an opponent that helps it’s developers leverage a wider range of devices. When reading this section of the book, the first thing that popped into my mind was Palm’s eroding market share. In this case, however, it’s not a question of Microsoft leveraging the desktop monopoly. They have actually out innovated Palm and it’s partners in the last year. Palm’s lack of innovation is something I was commenting on last month.