Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
This is a really old “test” video I forgot about. Yes, it’s the blogosphere, live on Roblimo.com, in all its blogospheric glory. Now, at last, you know what the blogosphere looks and sounds like. Cute, isn’t it?
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
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Ya gotta love this town! First we had a mayoral election with three candidates, one of whom was my “political newcomer” neighbor Bill Johnson. He managed to siphon off enough votes from Mayor Wayne Poston and former Mayor Bill Evers (to whom he threw his support after the first election) that neither one [...]
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
You’d think our local developers and real estate investors would have learned a thing or two from our ongoing real estate market correction, in which the public en masse has decided not to pay $300,000 for $150,000 houses or to cough up $150,000 for repainted $75,000 houses in marginal neighborhoods. But it seems that some [...]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Few people in the Bradenton area know that a lot of the videos I make — the ones for my “day job” — are about computer software. This is a fairly good sample of narrated software screen-capture video. It’s #1 from a set of 3. You can watch the others at Linux.com.
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
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The full video will be on sale before long. This 60-second excerpt gives you an idea how it looks and sounds. Children are mesmerized by this, especially if they’re just starting to read! You can email Grammee Kath if you’d like to order your own Grammee’s Christmas video on DVD. And you can [...]
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
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Florida politics are great fun. In this insignificant story, a neighbor of mine named Bill Johnson decided to run for mayor. No money… no poltical experience… but what the heck. He got around 12% of the vote, which meant that neither incumbent mayor Wayne Poston, with about 46%, or pre-Poston mayor Bill Evers [...]
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
I own and wear a lot of Slashdot t-shirts, so it’s no wonder that people I meet here in Bradenton often ask me, “What’s a Slashdot?” Sometimes I try to answer them, but since this part of Florida is for the most part in about 1997 when it comes to IT & WWW technology, I [...]
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
If you haven’t seen the Politifact website yet, it’s time for you to check it out. My favorite section is the Truth-O-Meter, where the site’s editors check the truthiness (Steven Colbert word) of various presidental candidates’ statements. Don’t look for political bias here, because you won’t find it — just good old-fashioned fact-checking with a [...]
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
One sad but salient fact about America’s current standing in the world is that lots of our old allies now dislike our country, and countries that used to mildly dislike us now openly hate us. Our next president had better be used to being hated and attacked and called names, and able to function competently [...]
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