My question for the candidates

November 15, 2007

Doing some live blogging from the Watch Party for the Democratic Presidential Debate has me thinking about what question I would ask if I were in the audience in the debate hall. In the vein of actions speak louder than words I would ask this: Global warming is the greatest challenge facing our planet. Leadership is important in changing energy policy. More important is what the billions of people on the planet do in their daily lives. What are you doing personally and what is your campaign doing to reduce your impact on the planet.

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Live blogging from the Democratic Presidential Debate Watch Party from UNLV

November 15, 2007

Doing a little live blogging from the Democratic Presidential Debate at UNLV tonight. Senator Biden is clearly coming out as the winner in the first half of the debate. Senator Clinton said at the opening of the debate that she was wearing an asbestos pant suit. That pant suit certainly got a workout in early sparing with Senator Edwards. Senator Biden was way ahead with charm and down to earth answers and staying on point about how we take the country and world forward instead of political sparing.

Fixing up mailman move instructions

November 15, 2007

A reader pointed out a problem with the HTML coding on the Mailman server move instructions page was pretty goofy. Somewhere along the lines the order of filters in Drupal got bungled on my installation. Murphy willing all is now well.

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Apple to ship macs with Windows installed 'very soon'

November 8, 2007

It is a day early for Friday funnies but this email from Examsoft today was too good to pass up:

Dear Administrator,

SofTest was certified to run on Mac OS X running Windows XP with the beta version of Boot Camp in the spring of 2006. August 31, 2007 marked completion of our first complete academic year (9/1/06 - 8/31/07) supporting this platform. Over this past academic year no issues have been reported to us running SofTest on this platform with either XP or Vista. We purchased the new Leopard OS (with the now supported version of Boot Camp) and have tested SofTest running XP and Vista on this platform without incident. SofTest is now certified to run on Leopard through Boot Camp. We will continue to support SofTest's use on this platform moving forward.

iPhone, gPhone, Androids and the company you keep

November 7, 2007

So the much awaited gPhone, nee the Android OS for the open handset alliance, debuted this week. Yawn. So Google's going to hock an OS that while it has the trendy underpinnings of Linux and the Open Source code-word attached won't at the end of the day (or year rather) give us much more than we already have on our Blackberries, Treos and iPhones. (Not to even mention the plethora of Windows Mobile cell phones with these capabilities).

Invoke, evoke, provoke

November 6, 2007

Some of the folks from Cirque du Soleil were on campus Tuesday to talk about the entertainment industry. They shared their corporate mission which I like a great deal. "To invoke the imagination, provoke the senses and evoke the emotions of people around the world." It makes for a good motto too. Invoke, evoke, provoke.

And they have some interesting jobs available for folks living in the right locations.

When RSS feeds go bad

November 6, 2007

Perhaps I am the only one but when good RSS feeds go to summaries instead of full feeds there quickly earn one fewer subscriber. The value proposition must be there as good bloggers like Guy Kawasaki are now sending out only summary feeds. Not long ago I responded to one of Kawasaki's posts and helped to expand a project he was working on. Now, however, the feed will simply fall out of my reader and someday be replaced by another.

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