BurningbirdIf you had signed up to get feeds of your congressional representative votes, you would have seen several having to do with a new nuclear deal with India. Time and again, any attempt to put any safeguards and restrictions on what could be given or sold to India was voted down, and now we have a ‘bi-partisan’ bill giving […]
I was surprised to read of Jon Udell joining Microsoft. I agree with Sam Ruby that Jon has enough street cred to counter the inevitable exclamations of bias in his future writings. At a minimum, we have years of writing before joining MS to be able to determine any differences after he begins at his new job. To […]
Oddly enough Jon Udell’s hiring also left me feeling sad, and a little depressed. I look back on the ‘announcements’ of new hires and moves between and to companies in the last year, and I can’t remember this same level excitement about a tech woman taking a new position. Heck, I can’t remember a tech […]
Firebug has released a beta of the first full version, 1.0. The previous version was extremely helpful. This version is beyond helpful. I dare say it goes all the way to, “Wow!” I don’t use Firebug because I’m a Firefox browser user. I’m a Firefox browser user because of extensions like Firebug.
In St. Louis Today, Harry Levins writes: As a general rule, newspapers stop running anniversary stories after 50 years. The thinking holds that past 50 years, few readers even remember the event, much less took part in it. Past a half-century, journalists cede the field to historians. World War II was an exception. Because that war […]