Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

So, I guess that if you grow up in Europe and want to show how bad-ass you are, but skateboarding is too American, then Parkour is your sport. This stuff is seriously cool.

finally caught up on moving over the old posts from the old blog location. This site now has all the content for this blog.

Please make up your mind. Either, enforce your rules about carry-on bags or make the overheads infinitely large. “Two Bags only, one bag and one briefcase or purse” you announce over the loud speaker. Meanwhile, I’m walking down the jetway behind some other business traveler who has a roll-away large enough for me to fit [...]

At this point, I’m just used to the horror show that developing software for the mac is. But as a user, it has always been sweetness and light mostly and with Apple service, it has always been awesome. Now, Apple is crossing the line. My 30 GB iPod photo is busted. It has been lovingly [...]

The firing of the US District attorneys has focused more attention on hiring practices across the justice department, and everything comes back to Monica Goodling, the 31 year old graduate of a law school founded by a televangelist that considers their main textbook to be the bible. She became the person in charge of hiring [...]

Las Vegas is growing significantly faster than the puget sound region, but that didn’t prevent a huge slide in prices due, in a big way, to flippers. “We had seen real evidence of what was possible in this crazy, inflated market, and we just wanted to get a piece of that investment equity,” Schwartz said. [...]

I mean, c’mon when are going to do a real investigation here. Over and over, this administration shows that it has no regard for the public, only for it’s cronies. On Spellings’ watch, the $6 billion federal initiative to improve literacy rates in disadvantaged schools appears to have served instead as a profit center for [...]

Not content to let Adobe and Microsoft slug it out, Java and Firefox decide to enter the fray. APC: Firefox to go head-to-head with Flash and Silverlight CNET: Schwartz: JavaFX can take on Flash I don’t think that this will amount to more than a distraction. JavaFX seems a bit like a mess. Reading over [...]

12 Things To Do In Second Life That Arent Embarrassing If Your Priest Or Rabbi Finds Out – Digital Life Blog – InformationWeek I don’t want to dis Second Life too much. You gotta give it up to the Linden Labs folks for taking on a business that has an absolutely horrific track record with [...]