Today I read a little Wallace Stevens and I tuned my bike. And look what popped up via the Starving Artist Cafe:
Aug 142010
Aug 142010
The Google and Verizon deal. Man, it’s got to suck to be Verizon at this point. I bet they thought they had a powerful ally in Google and were slobbering at the chance to cash in.
It’s pretty plain to see that Google can’t lose in this scenario.
- Net neutrality = big win.
- Tiered internet = meh.
Google has forced the issue, and it seems it might actually come down on the side of the consumer, who is sick to death of being nickel and dimed by the telecoms. Come on EFF and FCC, take this opportunity to make it stick and keep the net neutral. Maybe Google can sabotage it’s own defense in this case. It will certainly work in their favor.
Kinda reminds me of the frog and the scorpion getting across the river. Except this time, the scorpion has wings. I’ve always liked Google, they have good products. I’ve also always kept a wary eye on them. It looks like Verizon should have been doing the same thing.
Aug 082010
It’s all over the news recently, Bill Gates and 40 billionaires will give away half of their wealth, to charity.
I have a better idea. How about instead of giving away fish, you teach people to fish. Small business and the middle class are in trouble. If you want to help, how about some low cost business loans or grants that will help people open their own shops and then hire other people to work there and then the money kinda stays in the community instead of being soaked up by the market which sits predominantly off-shore and thumbs their noses at us while we work our butts off and pay taxes while they don’t. Whew, that’s a helluva run on sentence, glad to get it off my chest. Oh, and keep the net neutral, while you’re at it. I wouldn’t stand for people telling me which roads I can drive on, so I have no interest in letting it slide on the “information superhighway”.
You can start by sending me a check for $100K to open a coffee/geek/hosting biz. Or, you can go ahead and put that on your charge card by hitting “Custom Deal” over here, just make the quantity 100,000.
Jul 272010
Who knew? Fight club style soap (minus the midnight run) and dog training. This will be a hoot.
Old-schooling a website...
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Jul 032010
… for my buddy Sparky. And it’s fun! Gonna throw a bit of HTML 5 in there just for shits and giggles. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Jun 222010
I hit a birthday this weekend, and some stuff happened back home with my grandmother that got me thinking. I put up a site a while back, and I guess it’s time to start pushing it:
The first badge kind of says it all.
Jun 022010
Seriously folks, he has turned into a serious hand-wringer. “Emergency Powers” to take control of civilian networks? What in the world is he thinking? If we get attacked, I say we just issue /b/ carte blanche to respond. I have more faith in those guys than I do in turning networks over to the government. /b/ would probably wreak some havoc on those they are defending, but with the gov’t we’d probably never get the networks back.
And Cortez burned his ships...
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May 282010
… so that his men were properly motivated. I’m not sure that actually happened. But I’m all in now, lets see if I can keep the proper motivation!
A side note. I’m on page 2 of Google Image search for “iPoop”, I’m not sure that’s an honor.
May 182010
I posted the following to my Facebook page and all of a sudden, my profile didn’t show it and chat was disabled:
Check your privacy settings while waiting for Diaspora to come out: http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/
Could be a routine Facebook error, but I’m wondering if “Diaspora” or the link triggered a filter.
Update. It did finally appear. I’m still not sure if it was an error or if it was caught in a filter.