The No Votes - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com

I don’t understand any of this Bailout stuff.  The more I read, the more I get confused.  Quite frankly, I still don’t really know how it would affect me (no debt guy).

Still, to look at these graphs, its very interesting to see who says no, and what their leanings are.

Very interesting soreness today.

It looks like the rollerblading has helped my thighs in that they don’t feel the least bit sore.  What is hurting though are the calves.  Since rollerblading specifically removes a lot of the pounding of cement that occurs from running, I think it causes my calves to not be used to the running involved with basketball.

Also, it turns out, the rollerblading does not help keep me in shape enough for basketball as I was tired almost as quickly as when we had first started playing.

In actual basketball news, I was a sadly pathetic 0-4 shooting missing 3 layups and a wide open shot.  Hopefully it comes back as the season progresses.

When is a laptop with the Wacom capacitive screen coming out already?

I have been waiting on this thing for months now. Previous news has said that they expected screens sometime this year, but all the laptop manufaturers have already released for the start of the school season (Main interesting ones being the tx2500 from HP and the t5010 from Fujitsu).

The thing is, you can find the part on the wacom component site. There are two, a SU5R-12S05A, which is for a standard 12.1″ screen (maybe we will see it in the X200 from Lenovo?), and a wide screen version SU5R-12W03A (which most people will be leaning toward as majority of tablets now are in this widescreen form factor).

One interesting thing to note, without a 13.3″ version, expect Fujitsu to update their t4020 line with this and NOT the t5010.

Sorry for all the test entries.

http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2008/07/apc_denim_butle.php

I can’t get over the craziness that is fashion. Here we have jeans which are pre-worn?!? and they are sold at a premium over normal jeans? Somehow, people don’t have the time to actually wear jeans but instead are asking others to wear them first.

Does no one see this as being absolutely crazy?

More importantly, I wonder if there is a business for this. You can outfit the poor with clothing, and then resell it at a premium. Seems like a win-win for everyone.

Testing Scribefire, feel free to ignore.

I had promised there was no point talking about them until they were above 500. Well, with yesterdays game, they are officially 41-40, or exactly one game above 500. Sure, it took half the teams only one game what it took the Tigers half a season, but its better now than never.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20080610/0146101362.shtml

I have been reading about this the last few days. The gist is that with Google, people are now finding it hard to sit down with a book and read.

Taking a completely different read on the situation, I am completely ambivalent to whether this is good or bad for humanity. More interesting is to see our human mind at work. As soon as situations change, our very mind makes the best use it can out of it. It has literally changed its way of thinking to utilize new resources. Any normal animal, this would require evolution, at least a number of years to work through a changing circumstances. In humans, we make such a drastic change within a single lifetime. Absolutely amazing.

Now, I’ve never owned one of those motorola phones. I also have never owned one of those fangled iphones.

Still, from the outside looking it, it would look like the Iphone is quickly becoming the next RAZR.

The question is, if it becomes the next RAZR, is this good or bad for Apple? On the one hand, Apple has shown with the Ipod that they can have mainstream appeal while still maintaining their high brand name. On the other hand, RAZR has shown that phones that have become mainstream do not keep their users interested and dilute what use to be a very strong brand.

It will be interesting to see which is the case for the Iphone.

Just downloaded Firefox3 to try it out.

Good news:
Scribefire and FireFTP both still work. I use scribefire more than fireFTP but both as very useful extensions.
Tamper Data also works. Great for debugging.

Bad news:
Firebug doesn’t work. This is a horrendous killer for me. This extension is critical to my job.

In the 10 minutes I have played with it so far, it seems pretty good. I especially love the smaller shortcut bar, means it fits a lot more links than before.

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