It’s all fun and games until Walt Cummings loses an eye… That was a great scene tonight on “24.” That’s was more along the lines of what I expecting last week when Jack Bauer started to torture that dude from CTC.
24 is a great show. They have great writers and understand pace and drama. Right now, it is the really the only show that I watch.
Initial impression: looks nice and is very intuitive. However, wish the Send To Blog was not locked in to Blogger.com.
Also, no Firefox support yet.
I guess John Kerry doesn’t understand that when you win the Presendential Election, you have the Constitutional right to nominate anyone you want:
He is packing the court with conservative ideologues who will extend the legacy of his presidency for years to come.
That’s called checks and balances
Later, he acknowleges this:
I know better than anyone that elections have consequences and that the President has every right to nominate whomever he chooses to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. But I also know that Senators have the right – in fact, they have a constitutional responsibility, to question whether that nominee is the right choice. That is why the Framers required the Senate to provide advice and consent. We are not meant to be a rubber stamp. We need not rush to judgment simply to satisfy the political deadline of a State of the Union address.
Greg
Reinacker did several reviews on photo sharing websites. His review on
Smugmug really got my attention. I think the simple password protect
feature is great. Setting up an new account to view protected pictures is not
very grandma friendly.
Greg’s review was dated November, 2005. I noticed the price has gone up $10 per year.
Hillary Clinton is now saying she supports a filibuster for Judge Alito. This is very surprising from her considering she is trying to keep very centric and low key politically. The votes are not there for the filibuster to work. Is she banking on it to be unsuccessful (not enough votes) to be able to say she tried? I guess that would offer red meat to the far left and be a mute point to centric voters because nothing happened.
Just when the Pen Missle and Tiger Hand wasn’t enough in the original Rock-Paper-Saddam. There is a sequel with “The Painting.”
However, there will always been an endless supply of material for future versions. It seems that Saddam was just kicked out of court a few hours ago.
Well, today
is the Chinese New Year. 2006 is the
Year of the Dog.
According
to Wikipedia:
“People
born in this year are loyal, honest, and trustworthy, but can also be stubborn
and selfish. Dogs get along with Horses, Rabbits, and Tigers.”
Some famous
people born during the Year of the Dog:
That’s a pretty diverse crowd…
dasBlog has native ability to automatically upload embedded pictures when posting via email. This is really nice and painless. Scott Schecter has nice post about integrating flicker with dasBlog.
I used to maintain a picture archive that I wrote for my website. Mine worked well but just the ROI was limited based upon the effort I put in it. However, flicker is much nicer and more importantly has the bandwidth. Their pricing structure is extremely
reasonable.
I have been reading through the Narnia books. I am now
on “The Dawn Treader” which is pretty good. To my amazement, I
came across the phrase “do the needful.” I immediately had
flashbacks from a project I had worked on last year in which two guys
constantly used that phrase. I have never heard of anyone using that
phrase before…nor did anyone on my team. With a little Google Foo, I
found out it is a little more wide-spread. This guy goes into a long
dissertation and analysis about the saying.
He thought this was just common among people who use English as a second
language. My theory is that it is a
British English thing because of the use by C.S. Lewis. And specifically many people from India
learn British English vs. American English.
