The Big Move 2.0
has begun. Regular programming will resume sometime next week. In the meantime, I'll leave you with these three words :
nineteen foot Cadillac.
Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day
"Let's be honest, sometimes we don't know our System Administrators as well as they know us. Remember this is one day to recognize your System Administrator for their workplace contributions and to promote professional excellence. Thank them for all the things they do for you and your business." Buy them one of
these. Speaking of sysadmins, I got a big kick out of
quoting Essential SysAdmin in an art project, but I digress... via
camworldMarc St-Maurice, leader of the Marijuana Party :
"I'm just waiting for Jean Chrétien to drop the writ and call a by-election, then I'm off to Okanagan-Coquihalla to go mano a mano with Stockwell Day. We're putting marijuana on top of the agenda and I'm itching for a debate."
NY Times : Gulf War Led Cheney to the Oil Boardroom
After reading this article, it occured to me that Dick Cheney might have a very specific function in the election : that his presence is designed to make people think that, in the world of realpolitik, he is the guy best able to screw the oil producers into lowering gasoline prices. I'm not saying it would actually happen, only that it is a seed being planted meant to germinate in the that part of people's minds where the "doing the right thing" gives way to voting with their pocket book. see also :
The Gulf War and
Car People.
Randal Schwartz : Should I organize a boycott of camel 3?
From the Pen is Mightier than the Sword department :
comes the
Write Here Suite that brings handwriting recognition software to the desktop, using PalmOS gadgets as the interface. Meanwhile, the rumours are not just that Apple is building handwriting software into OS X, but that the plan to "
eliminate the need for a keyboard." Over coffee, this morning, I wondered aloud why no one had yet made -- or atleast properly marketed -- textured surfaces for digital tablets. There is a reason that artists don't all work on the same kinds of paper or canvas or stone and the fact that surface is imitated on the screen demonstrates that someone isn't paying very much attention to their customers. "Well, maybe the tablets are very sensitive," said my friend. "And an uneven surface would interrupt how much information it received from the pen." Exactly.
Also in the Go Forth and Make Money department :
why has no one announced -- even as vapourware -- a cell phone
module for my Visor?