Entries from August 2008

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

John McCain running mate Sarah Palin misled Republican supporters – Telegraph

I wonder if we’ll see a press release that she needs to “spend more time with her grandson son” soon… John McCain running mate Sarah Palin misled Republican supporters – Telegraph The Governor of Alaska gave a misleading version of events over a controversial bridge project in her home state when she made her maiden [...]

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Yow! Who is in charge of the Republican presidential campaign?

Choosing Sarah Palin seemed like a serious hail mary play when it was first announced. An attempt to out-history-make the democrats. Choosing the Alaskan govenor gains John McCain nothing in the regionally-balancing-the-ticket game. She is so incredibly right-wing that she makes him seem like a socialist. Maybe the idea is that she could bring the [...]

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Nice C++ resource

Bob Archer has posted a nice page showing where the different C++ symbols come from. Much faster than trying to load visual studio help and searching for the header section of the topic… C++ Standard library symbols

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

NBC stop lying to me

Dear NBC, I just watched the final on the CBC, don’t show me video of the team getting off the bus and say that they just arrived and competition should get started in about an hour. Morons. Yer pal, Kevin [update 11:21PM PST] NBC is now claiming to be broadcasting something “live” that the New [...]

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Bob Costas interviews President Bush (updated)

A sports journalist asks all the hard questions, leaving a smirking Bush probably wondering what he got himself into. I love it! He sits down thinking he’s going to talk about basketball or some bs like that and Bob Costas gets into Darfur and the Russia/Georgia situation and GWB looks like an idiot yet again! [...]

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Another iPhone App that I don’t feel like writing…

I’m pretty sure that this app exists for other smart phones and I know that a similar thing exists for normal PCs. An App that scans the barcode using the built-in camera and then allows you to look it up on your choice of site: froogle, Amazon, whatever… To see if you want to buy [...]