From the monthly archives: January 2007

Iraq civilians: 34,452 dead, 36,000 hurt

By On January 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

For a minute try really hard to visualize thirty five thousand people. Hard isn’t it? Next time you’re at a big sporting event try thinking about the life of every person in the space. Imagine how special and different each person is. How happy and full of life each person is. Try talking to a [...]

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End our dependancy on Oil

By On January 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A good reason not to have permanent military bases in Iraq, besides the prevention of more needless death, is to help mitigate the United States dependency on oil. The Bush administration, and many other politicians on both sides of the aisle, want the US to stay in Iraq to secure Middle East oil all [...]

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Edwards and Permanent Military bases in Iraq

By On January 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A few months ago I was invited by Sen. John Edwards to attend a dinner with several local bloggers. It was a exciting and wonderful evening of good food and excellent conversation. I was nervous and wondered how I ended up there. I suppose its because of my blog post

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Beyond Iraq: King is right!

By On January 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment

America is so lucky to have had a human like Dr. Martin Luther King born among us. His work reaches way into the future and teaches us still. I’m confident many many future generations will benefit from his work.

When I listen to his speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence I want [...]

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Impeach G.W. Bush

By On January 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

They other day I voted to impeach George W. Bush. Sadly we don’t have a US gov sponsored direct election sans electoral college to impeach presidents. I did the next best thing: VoteToImpeach.org.

I used to wonder how signing petitions made a difference. Then I signed one in VA to get Ralph Nader [...]

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Widgets on the iPhone: I’m a early adopter

By On January 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Bora wrote in his post iPhone, youPhone, he/she/itPhone, wePhone, youPhone, theyPhone… why he’s not an early adopter of new technology. In this videoblog post I explain why I think the iPhone is important (hopefully). Widgets!

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iPhone Wallpaper

By On January 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I made a little collage in the form of a 1162 x 864 pixel PNG. Suitable as wallpaper for your computer. Images came from the Apple website. (I think the demo movies of the iPhone are amazing) Thank you Apple! Enjoy!


Click image for full size png.

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The Joy of iPhone

By On January 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The iPhone is real! It won’t be out until June. Starting to sell stuff now to buy it!

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Watching Macworld Virtually

By On January 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

With no Live video feed or stream available to me I’m keeping up with Steve Job’s keynote address at MacWorld 2007 with the following: Twitter friend Macworld and MacRumorsLive. You can watch the keynote speech video after the event.

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Increase in Enviro Disasters?

By On January 8, 2007 · 1 Comment

Are we just more aware of environmental danger and report on it more or is there a real increase in dangerous environmental events? Maybe both?

Recent examples:
Mysterious dead birds prompt downtown Austin shutdown
Gas-Like Odor Permeates Parts of New York City – News of this odor is updating as I [...]

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