Mojave! a stupid campaign

Is it just me or does the mojave campaign just brag about a bunch of apps that come bundled with the OS, and not the OS itself.  The most recent ad is ridiculous, talking about how a bundled photo app stiches images together.  I mean that's cool and all, but it's got nothing to do with me trying to get a netbook on a network quickly

But the whole campaign is ridiculous overall.  Of course vista demos well, no one said it was ugly.  The problem is that it's a bloated unstable beast rife with bugs.  I can only hope for microsoft that they come out with windows 7 soon, no one wants a copy of Windows ME 2008.

Mumbai Attacks

Lately I've read a lot of blogs and heard a lot of people talk about this as precision attack, and I'm dumbfounded.  The terrorists did a crappy job and I'm glad, but thanks to airheaded media they were successful.  Kill foreigners to get it on CNN and the BBC, and suddenly india is one of the most dangerous places in the world, congratulations assholes with guns, terror achieved.

This wasn't a crack team acting with surgical precision, it was a bunch of yahoos with weapons that'd make your average nutjob survivalist chuckle.  The violence was little better than random otherwise many more than 200 would have died.  The fact that only 200 died suggests that the security response was actually pretty damn effective. I'm just sad that stuff like this makes people comfortable with giving up civil liberties for cleverly named "safety measures" like the patriot act.

Beautiful afternoon on ucla campus

Know what's in the bailout

Given that there's probably a lot of confusion around the bailout, here's a link to a super useful site for bill transparency: www.publicmarkup.org where you can review and post comments to pending legislation. It's a great idea for more transparency of government, but when are we gonna have the time to review pending bills.

Social Websites revisited

As I try to sort out/streamline my digital life, which seems to be inversely related in activity to my analog life, I've chanced upon a couple sites I signed up for ages ago but never really started using till just now.

1. OpenID, and the rep building site attached to it called jyte, of course now that google and yahoo are on the boat too I have several openID's to rationalize
   
2. Twine, which for me has now completely replaced del.icio.us because I like the way it's configured, and the idea of colaborative link accumulation around topics appeals to me
3. ThisNext which is basically a site where you post links to stuff you find cool to show people how ahead of the curve you are, but it's also a great place to find links to awesome stuff.

Of course these days I'm a member of soooooo many "social networking" sites that it's beginning to make my head spin