tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31800372009-09-28T21:45:41.139-07:00Wasted days and wasted nightsBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07857549991464420776noreply@blogger.comBlogger871125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180037.post-66336836080142224262009-09-28T21:42:00.000-07:002009-09-28T21:45:41.153-07:00

The New York Times Web site has this great little feature on their tech page where they cull the very best stories from around the Web and present them to their readers as "Technology Headlines from Around the Web."Maybe the robot that does this was on holiday today, 'cause they were slightly redundant.

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Some scenes from our very relaxing vacation in Quebec, where Michael is still the King.And good conversation can be had on a hot day.And everyone bikes (without a helmet). You can rent a Bixi for $5 per day and park it in one of these ubiquitous public racks.Children are helpful.And badminton is competitive.

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Over the past years, scammers have taken to sending people really targeted email that looks like it comes from a trusted source in hopes of tricking the victim into giving up sensitive information -- passwords to corporate networks or banking accounts. Stuff like that. It's called spear phishing, and I write about it quite a lot. I think that a spearphishing email designed to look like it came

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I'm working late, not worrying about my early start tomorrow. Writing. Listening to music I like. Alone. No distractions. Making progress. I want it to last all night. When I was young and pulled all-nighters it was all dread and distraction. Tonight is more fun, maybe because this time seems rarer and more precious. And it seems like somehow, slightly, I'll get it done. I just know it. I'm

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A good use of dead wood.

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Anna and I have been fighting lately about bags and the fine line between garbage and adventure. The way, I see it, Dreams of Steel was an act of divine inspiration. Three years ago one of the nuns next door asked me if she could have our old cans and beer bottles. It was for a field trip to Germany. A simple girl, a little bit worn, but like all of our neighborhood nuns, solid and clean as a

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Driving home from Cisco last night, I passed a gas station: $1.95 a gallon. That's expensive, compared to the rest of America but cheap cheap cheap compared to the $4 or so I was paying in the summer. In fact, the steep drop in gas prices here in the U.S. has pretty much amounted to a multibillion dollar economic stimulus package for most Americans. A lot of that money we were previously spending

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Saw this ad on Facebook today. It links to this ad.

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(thanks Timmy)

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From the San Francisco Bicycle coalition.The SFBC is happy to announce that after seven years of slogging, the federal Bicycle Commuter Benefit suddenly became a reality last week as part of the $850 billion bailout bill signed by the President on Friday. The "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" contains language (scroll to p. 205) that will amend the U.S. Tax Code to permit employers

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I have to hand it to the NY Times's Gretchen Morgenson. She's been on top of this mortgage meltdown every step of the way. She's the first person I remember writing about the credit default swap implosion, and it's interesting to read her Feb 2008 column about these products today. Equally interesting is this Aug 2007 column by Ben Stein, downplaying the whole situation. Stein writes:The rate of

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After a, what, 1 year hiatus, James MacDougall's Glob & Wail is back, along with many cat, dog & bird photos. Let's hope we don't have to wait much longer or the crazy video postings. That was always my favorite part. Good to have you back, Jimmy.

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Wow.From the Boston Herald.With banjos picking in the background, Stanley opens the folksy 60-second ad with, "Howdy, friends ..." He claims Obama will cut taxes for "everyday folks" and invest in rural areas to keep children from leaving home to find jobs.

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When we reporters talk about CEOs we sometimes make it sound like they are somehow the owners of the companies they run, or manage really. Usually that's not true. In publicly traded companies the CEO owns, at best, a fraction of the enterprise. Bill Gates owns way more than a typical CEO -- just under 9 percent of Microsoft -- the company's current CEO, Steve Ballmer, even less.We forget this,

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From the WSJ.A few people started watching the video, which shows the sign next to another sign endorsing a local candidate, beside a flowerbed. The only reliable action consists of the occasional car passing in the background.Still, by that first evening, more than 100 people were watching. The next day, when Preston checked the site during lunch at school, more than 450 were there, not only

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I guess this has been going on for awhile. This was posted Aug. 30. That's me, late to the trend again!

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And now, the National Review says... Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.Do it for your country. (thanks Elizabeth)

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Just starting to see the Sarah Palin vs. Miss South Carolina references on Twitter and YouTube. I don't think Palin's performance was quite that bad, but I wonder if it will stick? Miss South Carolina, Caitlin Upton, you may recall, bungled a Miss Teen USA question on why so many Americans can't locate the US on a world map.

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It's usually the worst, most boring kind of reporting. Personally I hate it. I think it speaks to the journalists ego more than anything else. Well if you like it, here's one for you: a twittered child's funeral. Seriously.From the Washington Post.In a move that was not only morbid, but called into question by a slew of critics, a Colorado newspaper reporter Twittered a three-year old's funeral

Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07857549991464420776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180037.post-41869479290721720922008-09-10T10:08:00.000-07:002008-09-10T10:15:13.154-07:00

Or is it chip shop owners? Or geriatric aquatic creatures? Either way, I think white female voters should be offended!Said Obama:You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink after eight years.

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I'm back. Shaken up, bumped around and seeing the world through new (older) eyes after an amazing birthday evenement in Quebec this past month.Thanks so much to all of you who mailed and emailed Facebooked and *gasp* dropped by for my big birthday party. It was amazing, and too quick, and amazing all over again.I have a lot to say, but I'm working again, so not a lot of time to say it. I do want

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This is the most popular shirt I wear to Gig's daycare.Gigi was sick last night, vomiting in our bedroom at 1 am and feeling generally sick through the night. This morning she said to Anna:"Barf is not all beautiful like a rainbow on daddy's shirt."

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You know there's an interesting alternative reality in the spamosphere. If I'd clicked on the links to any of these emails caught by my spam filter, they'd have probably tried to install a Trojan on my computer. Some of them may be true, or kind of true. But when you look at the headlines together you get an Onion-like picture on what news stories people *would* click on:A-Rod to wed Madonna in

Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07857549991464420776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180037.post-57983989428813758342008-07-23T23:09:00.000-07:002008-07-23T23:49:44.741-07:00

Our camera didn't work the day of the wedding, but they had pros there to capture the event.

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