Monthly Archives: September 2008

Barack’s to lose

Who am I? Why am I here? I don’t even remember anymore. Anyway, I watched the debate tonight with 150 or so people from Washington’s 43rd Legislative District, and thought that it was essentially a draw. Bear in mind: this is not an ideal outcome, given that foreign policy is supposed to be McCain’s strongest [...]

Carly knows all about the lack of qualifications

 
From Andy Barr at The Hill:
“Do you think [Palin] has the experience to run a major company, like Hewlett Packard?” Fiorina was asked on a St. Louis radio show.
“No, I don’t,” Fiorina said without further explanation.
And, as we all know, Carly Fiorina is uniquely qualified to know exactly what type of executive experience a person [...]

Walt Mossberg on Election ‘08

Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal wrote about Election ‘08 today:
Now there’s a cool new way to follow the 2008 Presidential election anywhere you go…If you care about politics, and understand that polls aren’t perfect, Election ‘08 can put a snapshot of the political horse race in your pocket.
Wow! Appearing on TechCrunch is one [...]

Nothing Quite Like Running Naked in a Hurricane

I’ve been watching coverage of Hurricane Ike’s landfall in Texas all evening, and was just watching another clip on the Weather Channel’s website. I noticed something in the last second of this video that’s worth watching: some guy runs naked across the background just before the clip ends. Not my ideal way to gain notoriety, [...]

Weird Headline Day

 
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David Plouffe to 38% of America: STFU

Haha, I love Plouffe:
“We’re sensitive to the fluid dynamics of the campaign, but we have a game plan and a strategy,” said Mr. Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe. “We’re familiar with this. And I’m sure between now and Nov. 4 there will be another period of hand-wringing and bed-wetting. It comes with the territory.”

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Election ‘08 Updated

I just received word from Apple that Election ‘08 has been updated to version 1.1. This brings with it a raft of improvements, including:

Battleground states: See which races are the closest at the touch of a button.
Polling sources: See the sources of every state poll displayed.
Historical polling data: See every poll conducted in 2008.
National tracking [...]

Death Cab for Cutie and TV on the Radio

I’m just finishing up lunch, and was spending some time reflecting over the past couple weeks when I realized I never mentioned my day at Bumbershoot on Labor Day. I caught Death Cab for Cutie headlining that night, and was as thoroughly impressed by them as I always am, Ben’s twitchy rocking notwithstanding. 
I’m never a [...]

iTunes 8: 60 Second Review

Immediate reactions after first firing up iTunes 8, and configuring the Genius feature:

Wow, I didn’t think Apple could make iTunes look more inconsistent with the rest of the OS and itself than they already had. Guess they topped my expectations.
Genius is cool, but why can’t I resize it?
Genius shows me some stuff I already have.
Why [...]

The latest on Election ‘08

Here’s what’s been happening over the past couple days with Election ‘08:

A server hiccup made the app unusable for a few hours - I have an update in the queue with Apple to address this sort of thing in the future; I will be hosting all of the data that the app consumes on Amazon [...]