From the monthly archives: January 2008

Spoken Wikipedia Articles

By On January 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I was just reading a Wikipedia entry about Thomas Pynchon. Scrolling to the bottom to look at some sources I noticed a link to some audio. (YES teachers wikipedia is cited.) Of course its in the open source audio format OGG. I had to find an app to open it. Fortunately [...]

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An Obama/Edwards ticket?

By On January 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment

No disrespect to my friends who support John Edwards. I believe he is a excellent Presidential candidate. But imagine this. What about a Obama/Edwards ticket? What if John Edwards ran with Obama as his Vice President? A white Southern man who serves beside a black President from Chicago. We could have this soon. It could [...]

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935 Lies

By On January 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A new report from The Center for Public Integrity called Iraq: The War Card says:

President George W. Bush and seven of his administration’s top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September [...]

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WordPress Consulting

By On January 24, 2008 · 1 Comment

Yah! I’m doing a bunch of WordPress consulting. I’ve gotten several jobs recently to help people tweak this wonderful bit of software. Everything from creating whole themes to adding plugins to making changes in existing themes. Hopefully in the near future I’ll be able to show you my work and update my portfolio. [...]

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Palestinians break out from Gaza seige

By On January 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Check out this amazing video of tens of thousands of Palestinian people rushing into Egypt to feed themselves and find supplies. Amazingly a major section of the Israeli wall has been torn down. My first look at major American news media reveals few reports. But the NYTimes has a few slide shows. [...]

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Changes in the Local Political Blogosphere

By On January 23, 2008 · 1 Comment

There has been a flurry of activity in the Orange County political blogosphere this month. Changes that interest me as much as who is wining the presidential primaries. (Go Obama!)

First, the big news is the disappearance of the Squeeze the Pulp forum. In its place appears to be a site that could have a [...]

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Broken Plugin

By On January 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Apologies to all of you who subscribe to email updates about my new blog content. (You won’t get this via email.) Seems I might have just spammed you. I discovered that every time I make a change to a post it sends out a new email. I just got 12 emails from myself. Doh! I’ve [...]

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Voter Generated Video

By On January 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

techPresident has a cool list of their Favorite Videos of 2007. Voter generated videos that is. Check em out.

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

So far my favorite is the Onion’s War for the Whitehouse coverage of all the presidential bullshit going on. Bullshit is [...]

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NC Science Blogging Conference 2008: Opening

By On January 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This is the opening ceremony of the 2008 NC Science Blogging Conference. I’m working on two other sessions I recorded. A total of three hours of video content.

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Dissent is NOT Disloyalty

By On January 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Another great speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam. It seems so relevant today. Check out the full text after the fold.

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