tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549Thu, 05 Sep 2024 20:07:07 +0000lawenvironmentTechnologyculturesocietybeastsduhmarketingyard and gardenParentinglifehacksuccessFacebookIMHOTwitterYouTubeaffirmationsconsumerismeducationelectionsfeminismfinancegunshuman rightspetsproductivityresponsibilitywomenBarack ObamaBlogCatCircaEarly adopterFriendFeedGTDGlobal warmingHumorIraqJaikuJohn McCainJudge JudyLegal InformationLevengerMark ZuckerbergOlympicsPennsylvaniaPlurkPoliticsSXSWSarah LacySeesmicSilicon ValleyThere outta be a lawTibetTime sucksUbiquityUtterzWeblogsWhitneyZenadvertisingartbeautybloggingbookmarksbudgetchorescitizen journalistcivil rightscleaningcoffeecreativitydiscriminationdivorceenlightenmentfrugal livinggendergmailgovernmenthomelesshummusiPhoneidentityimpeachinspirationjournalkidslanguagelaptopliabilitylifestylelocalmediameditationmemoriesmental healthmisogynymoleskinemusicnewspaparazzipardonparentsprejudicepublicityquotesrefugeesreligionrestlessleg syndrome intuitionrightsshoppingsocial mediasocial networkingsocial networksspiritualityteachingtraveltrollsvideowelfareMy path to enlightenment gets longer every day...http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Ro)Blogger402125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-5094881550606776836Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:59:00 +00002009-04-04T10:59:23.089-04:00Are you really giving your child the benefit of the best education for the future they are facing? Do you realize that the best tools might already be in your own house? &nbsp; Related articles by Zemanta More than 20000 teachers not qualified' (telegraph.co.uk) Monkeys teach offspring to floss their teeth (telegraph.co.uk) The Art of Teaching (kikogolf.com) Seth Godin asks what is school http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2009/04/teach-yourself-and-let-your-children.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-3350786192490531626Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:11:00 +00002009-04-02T10:11:37.206-04:00Howard's Dream Office - such a source of inspiration...http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-love-this-office.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-6283457333091392644Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:25:00 +00002009-03-12T13:25:25.691-04:00culturesociety Image by Runs With Scissors via Flickr What can you say about Bernie Madoff? That he is: greedy, a sociopath, out-of-touch, brilliantly evil, mad? A study in the addiction of conspicuous consumption? I think he’s the perfect symbol of a system/society/class&#160; completely out of touch. Out of touch with the world around them – the real world, that is – and the lives of the people in it.http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2009/03/madoff-madness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-5625837806633855142Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:28:00 +00002009-01-22T10:30:56.260-05:00YouTube http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-your-glass-half-full-or-half-empty.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-3741852999665364770Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:15:00 +00002009-01-22T10:19:57.079-05:00YouTube http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2009/01/lost-generation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-980190763073782766Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:28:00 +00002009-01-03T14:28:53.203-05:00culturelawsociety Image by • MAH7 via Flickr It’s always disheartening to see problems like this, neighbors suing neighbors. You might not want to be the best of friends, and you certainly don’t need to be living next to someone who drives you nuts. But neighbors are kinda like family – you can’t pick ‘em, but you do need to deal with ‘em. I know someone who had neighbors they didn’t get along with. It was http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2009/01/neighborly-watch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-2468768346463415856Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:44:00 +00002008-12-28T08:47:37.833-05:00beasts Image by Noël Zia Lee via Flickr I have bird feeders right outside of my office window. More than just helping to nourish the local bird population, they provide hours of entertainment. My cats are rather entertained by them too. Two of the feeders are squirrel-proof. It’s endlessly amusing to see how determined those furry-tailed rodents are to thwart that. They regularly tumble from thehttp://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/12/clowns.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-8494182736451221081Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:36:00 +00002008-11-11T07:40:03.739-05:00http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/11/love-for-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-5759854501622154450Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:33:00 +00002008-11-05T08:40:18.390-05:00Barack ObamaJohn McCainPoliticsLIVEdigitally » Blog Archive » How the Internet Defeated the McCain Campaign: "I also hope our politicians take warning from these results. The era of politicians being able to say one thing while do another is at an end. We the people are tired of the negativity, the fear, and the lies that politicians have perpetrated over the years. The Internet was a major part of this election, and this http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-internet-defeated-mccain-campaign.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-3714497762108809730Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:01:00 +00002008-10-08T16:09:13.477-04:00http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/10/olberman-on-fire.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-2036257993969861435Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:26:00 +00002008-09-28T09:26:20.515-04:00 <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:D8843E5E-77F8-438C-A917-A5C54CB6F5CF:0 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from www.newyorker.comA lot has been written lately about the dishonest tactics of the two tickets, especially McCain-Palin. The problem with a campaign based on relentless message discipline, repeated falsehoods, and the habitual perversion of language is that none of it stops after election day. You http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/09/mental-atmosphere.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-1398524806501121627Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:56:00 +00002008-09-06T13:56:24.871-04:00 <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:CC495C04-54D1-417F-BC02-C12A740C004E:0 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from journalism.nyu.eduJohn McCain’s convention gambit is a culture war strategy. It depends for its execution on conflict with journalists, and with bloggers (the “angry left,” Bush called them) along with confusion between and among the press, the blogosphere, and the Democratic party. It revives http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/09/culture-war-gambit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-2083531849505547580Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:49:00 +00002008-08-29T17:11:41.956-04:00TechnologyUbiquityImage via Wikipedia I was just reading Rob Diana’s post “Ubiquity Will Not Be Ubiquitous”. I get his points - and there are some good ones - but I think he’s forgetting something really important. All apps are not for the techie/nerd/early-adopter crowd. Eventually, you need to put some focus on the non-tech loving crowd, the newbies. You know, the people who will pay you for what you do. And http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/08/finally-not-for-tech-crowd.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-3020604261219828546Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:05:00 +00002009-02-17T20:14:36.458-05:00Early adopterFacebookFriendFeediPhonePlurkTechnologyTwitterUtterzSteve Hodson must be a cranky old fart, as his byline says and his post supports, because he sure paints an arrogant picture of early adopters.I’m a cranky old fart myself. And an early adopter, I guess, by his standards, as I’m quick to try out most of the tech-bling showing up. But the rest of his article doesn’t fit. It sounds more like someone wouldn’t let him into some clubhouse he perceiveshttp://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/08/cranky-yes-accurate-no.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-3062738443131208277Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:02:00 +00002008-08-24T19:02:29.696-04:00.flickr-photo { }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } crocosmia, originally uploaded by Lilyhill. Planted to attracts hummingbirds. It worked, but they dart in and away so fast. Just saw the female come in - she darted around the hummingbird plant, then hovered around the goldfinch http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/08/crocosmia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-2125671000512810369Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:36:00 +00002008-08-23T14:36:33.097-04:00.flickr-photo { }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bee2, originally uploaded by Lilyhill. Good to see the honeybees. Such hard workers, no profit, unwittingly serving our desire for sweets and beauty.http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/08/heavy-industry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-6992704766018909492Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:37:00 +00002008-08-18T08:37:48.751-04:00 <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:D011691B-EB3B-46AC-BB5F-9B33599B50B7:0 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from blog.simplejustice.usThe law is a profession.  Whether or not lawyers are professionals is a matter of personal choice.  Some lawyers conduct themselves, and address the needs of their clients, as professionals.  Other lawyers are twinkie salesmen.  Of the latter group, some sell because they see no http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/08/food-for-thought.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-3948224904639417353Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:29:00 +00002008-08-07T08:29:41.235-04:00One academic warns that it might and says we need to pay attention to it. As machines learn to understand what the web means, what perspective will they understand it from?read more | digg storyhttp://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/08/will-semantic-web-have-gender.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-1459778113182485578Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:33:00 +00002008-08-06T08:33:44.764-04:00.flickr-photo { }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Conversation Prism, originally uploaded by b_d_solis. No wonder we social media junkies are so overwhelmed...http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/08/conversation-prism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-6047562422997297014Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:27:00 +00002008-08-01T10:36:04.460-04:00CatHumorpetsOh, yes. Captured perfectly. Life with a cat. Thanks to Ronnie Related articles by ZemantaN.J. Fat Cat Hits The Talk Show Circuit Fat cat a victim of foreclosure http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/08/life-with-cat.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-2796685825163886277Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:04:00 +00002008-07-28T11:23:53.152-04:00ParentingPennsylvaniawelfareImage via WikipediaIf you are financially well off, should you support your parents? If you live in Pennsylvania and the courts consider your parents destitute, there may be no question. Pennsylvania still has laws on the books which obligate children who are financially able to do so to support their parents who cannot support themselves. How do you feel about this? What if your parent had a http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/07/should-you-support-your-parents.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-3874061849937370068Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:24:00 +00002009-02-17T20:28:29.347-05:00BlogdiscriminationfeminismsocietyTechnologyWeblogswomenImage via Wikipedia And though women and men are creating blogs in roughly equal numbers, many women at the conference were becoming very Katie Couric about their belief that they are not taken as seriously as their male counterparts at, say, Daily Kos, a political blog site. So, why is this article in the Fashion &amp; Style section, NYTimes? I read the front page. I read the Tech section. Ihttp://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/07/fashionable-blogging.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-4282380417603204163Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:52:00 +00002008-07-27T19:27:40.725-04:00divorcelawLegal InformationImage by Lenar Poetry via FlickrI guess it's getting common to be discussing more than who get copies of the baby pictures when the split occurs...Technology &amp; Marketing Law Blog: The Sex Tape Problem...and a Possible Legislative Solution?http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/07/ok-who-gets-negatives.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-6747944098815750498Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:14:00 +00002008-07-12T13:20:18.929-04:00identityliabilitytrollsCould this be the beginning of making those who post anonymous comments with the fairly apparent intention of damaging another persons character take full, put-your-identity-where-your-mouth-is, responsibility for it?Law.com - N.Y. Court Defines Test for Obtaining Identities Behind Online PostsRelated articles by ZemantaCorporations Face Problems with Employee Emailshttp://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/07/open-mouth-insert-identity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447549.post-167315851477641726Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:59:00 +00002008-07-10T12:04:09.772-04:00hummus http://muddiamonds.blogspot.com/2008/07/abandon-hummas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ro)0