Blackboard, makers of a badly designed but incredibly popular Learning Management System (LMS) in use at about eighty percent of colleges in the USA, got a big smackdown on a slew of bogus patents they had been using to fend off competitors and stifle competition. This is a “non-final” decision, which means both parties [...]
My friend Ray finished designing a site for Cool City Customs, a custom bike builder. Their site has a cool Flash-based feature that lets you create your own bike, and they’re having a contest and giving away a bike to the winner. So go there and vote for my bike! There’s no [...]
I’ve never liked David Brooks, but I think his editorial today is particularly on point. Please, Hillary, just quit already.
Today is our thirteenth wedding anniversary. Yeah us:
Left to right: Wheat, Haden, & Gina.
Barack Obama addresses the question of race and specific concerns about those sermons that are all the rage these days in this lengthy (40 minutes) speech. It starts off a little too straight but veers into some very interesting, nuanced, and sometimes quite brilliant directions. Via his campaign site (with full transcript) or [...]
Just brilliant: “The Nietzsche Family Circus pairs a randomized Family Circus cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote.” Via Scott, who is always sending me such things.
Gina and I uploaded some new photos to my flickr account last night, including, of course, several new ones of Haden. Enjoy.
…contact your Congressperson and let him or her know that you’re not hip to the latest push for retroactive amnesty for the telecommunications organizations who were only too happy to hand over your private information without a warrant. Unless you’re happy with having all your email and other internet traffic being funneled through a [...]