Okay, seriously. Obviously this is only copy for a TV program, but still ( Read more... )

Yup, it's that time again. I was unfortunately at work tonight and couldn't really watch Obama's acceptance speech. I did, however, manage to catch a fair amount of bits and pieces in between actually doing my job.

I may have more to say later, but after reading this discussion of the speech from the Washington Post website, I find myself ( Read more... )

I have decided that the 2008 presidential election is even more important than the last. More importantly, I have found in Barack Obama a presidential candidate that I truly support politically. Let me explain -- George Bush has always been a candidate that I actively did not want to see in the White House. Al Gore and John Kerry, however, I was ( Read more... )

So in my usual trawling of The Series Of Tubes, I came across an article about how young people these days don't use email as much as young people even six or seven years ago ( Read more... )

On another note, I read this article a few days ago when I first found it, and I have serious issues with it ( Read more... )

For the record, this is the article that prompted the following ramble:

http://tech.msn.com/products/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5643915

Now then. One of the main points this article makes, and the part that sticks out the most in my mind, is this:

It's as if two very different tribes were trying to inhabit the same space. I sometimes get the ( Read more... )

So I was cruising MSN on my lunch break, and I come across a link saying something like "Coulter taking flak for comment about Jews" or something similar.  I clicked over and read the following article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21257498/

Surprise, surprise, Ann Coulter said something bigoted and offensive!  For another new and previously unheard- ( Read more... )

Apparently credit cards and credit card debt is a HUGE problem in America these days, if you listen to what people are saying:

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/sep2007/db2007095_053822.htm?campaign_id=msn

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Banking/CreditCardSmarts/ConfessionsOfACreditCardPusher.aspx

http://www.businessweek.com/ ( Read more... )