some news of note: George Bush signed and executive order lifting wage restrictions and allowing government contractors rebuilding new orleans to pay workers less than the prevailing wage FEMA’s email server broke. New Orleans being underwater was preventable. Former FEMA head Mike Brown padded his resume FEMA refused help from Amtrak, Wal-Mart, the Coast Guard, …
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mac os x text editors
roundup of text editors for mac os x: SubEthaEdit, Textmate and skEdit.
d70 focus chart
test your Nikon D70 for back focus problems.
the ten crazy ideas
the ten “crazy” ideas for Microsoft are: Schedule Unscheduled Time into Performance Reviews "Break Up" the Company Encourage Loose but Prominent Couplings Exile and Empower Incubation Projects Offer Super-exponential Rewards Offer Different Risk-Reward Compensation Profiles Cut Back on Bureaucracy Review Cost Cutting Reduce Headcount on Large Dev Projects Eliminate Exec Reviews
pitchfork <3 bigchampagne
puff piece on BigChampagne. this quote is perhaps the best part: “If you had a laptop under your arm and a pitch that went, ‘Wha wha wha wha Napster wha wha wha,’ you could get a meeting with anybody in the mediasphere,” recalls Garland. At one meeting, a famous producer turned down an urgent call …
bush and cheney explained
from tom tomorrow. it would be funny if it wasn’t so real.
terrorism paranoia in the uk
some cops detained, arrested and released an innocent man on the tube because he was “suspicious”: The police decided that wearing a rain jacket, carrying a rucksack with a laptop inside, looking down at the steps while going into a tube station and checking your phone for messages just ticked too many boxes on their …
josh’s ten insane ideas
Josh Ledgard, a program manager at Microsoft, has an interesting blog entry: “Ten Insane Ideas for Microsoft.” Some of it is pretty mundane, like towel service, but he makes a few great points: 1. The “2 Secrets†Rule So, I propose the “2 secrets†rule. Every VP must tell their groups what the two protected …
bush a wimp on genocide
Nicholas D. Kristof calls George W. Bush “A Wimp on Genocide in Sunday’s New York Times: Mr. Bush’s position in the U.N. negotiations got little attention. But in effect the United States successfully blocked language in the declaration saying that countries have an “obligation” to respond to genocide. In the end the declaration was diluted …
anatomy of a police raid
Cops get subponea. Cox turns over street address corresponding to IP address. Cops, looking for child porn, raid house, confiscate computer. Only one problem. Cox gave them the wrong house.