Posts Tagged: Web, Blogging and Computers
Friday Bullets Without The Pain...Except For The Pain
Posted by on Friday, July 18, 2008 in - 5 comments
I need a new back today. Despite the sit up and other exertions of unbelievable dedication, the back still goes. And it is quite prepared to go before just before the summer holiday begins. Such is life. Good thing I plan to do nothing. • Nevermind those who 3% of folk who think George W. Bush …
Whose Record Is It?
Posted by on Sunday, July 13, 2008 in - 14 comments
This editorial in today's New York Times highlights a very interesting question - whose record is it? Apparently in the present US administration it may be considered the office holders' and not the People's: • Missing e-mails include entire blank days at the offices of President Bush and Vice …
What Now?
Posted by on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 in - 5 comments
That is basically the question every morning. What now? What can I write about to get me though this obligation, this promise to myself that I will write every morning? Yes, it's the periodic I have nothing to write about post. I should have more to say but I suspect about 21 months ago I wrote …
Friday Bullets For The Greatest Weekend Of Your Life
Posted by on Friday, July 4, 2008 in - 4 comments
Happy Fourth of July to our American Readers! I am doing a bit of research that points to our fair town being something of the refuge of the first terrorists of your fair land. Bands of Tory and Mohawk Loyalists in the 1780s left here, for example, to destroy all before them led by John Johnson …
Your Friday Bullets For The Last Of June
Posted by on Friday, June 27, 2008 in - 18 comments
So there you are. Half the year gone already. How many years do you have? How many half years? The days are already getting shorter, too. Gather ye rosebuds while you may. • Update: This SCC ruling today on defamation is quite extraordinary...and I am not sure the court cited authority for this …
Google Destroys The Concept of Private
Posted by on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 in - leave a comment
In a round about way. Seems like a lawyer in FLorida is presenting Google seach requests as an authority for what makes up "community standards": • "In a novel approach, the defense in an obscenity trial in Florida plans to use publicly accessible Google search data to try to persuade jurors …
Clearly An Attack On The Truth And The Internet...
Posted by on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 in - 2 comments
A Metafilter tale good enough to link to and not just to steal: the newsman who was fired for telling the truth! Sounds like a great unjust dismissal claim to me.
Friday...Errr... Saturday Bullet Points For Summer's Start
Posted by on Saturday, June 21, 2008 in - 3 comments
I had no idea you were so dependent. A flood of emails have struck my gmail right in the mid-section screaming "Where are the Friday Bullets???" It was tough yesterday. I don't have internet addiction so much as blog admin addiction. I get the shakes when I can't patch into the rear end of this …
Don't Mess With Me: I Got A Committee Out Back
Posted by on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 in - 4 comments
Don't get me wrong. I realize there are places expressing your opinion lands you in jail or worse. After all, I lived through apartheid, South American right-wing dictatorships and the Cold War. But the differences between speaking and publication in the pre- and post-Internet worlds have led to …
Your Friday Bullets For Mid-June
Posted by on Friday, June 13, 2008 in - 34 comments
The lilac has faded. Tulips are just a memory. It's really summer now even if the calendar denies it. Now is the time of mowing and sweating. The time of bug bites and knee scrapes. Of the valuing of shade and water and a radish. Of attempting home repairs you have no business doing. • You know …
