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That explains a lot...
Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages
One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which purposes. The team members, accustomed to working on ( Read more... ) -
2009 webness
After a fair amount of fiddling, I've finally got the new web site up and running on WordPress. If the last few months are a fair indication, I'll be spending less time here on LiveJournal and more time at:
undercrypt.com
Facebook
TwitterI'll continue to check in occasionally, but it's unlikely I'll be very up to date on current events ( Read more... ) -
Search-fu failure
A couple of years ago (give or take), I ran across a pair of online videos that projected the future of social media over the next several years. The interesting thing was that one video presented a very positive view (technology enabling networking and music) and the other took a very negative view (corporate lockdown and paranoia). Each video ( Read more... ) -
Books in 2008
One of my goals for 2008 was to write more music and read fewer books. I ended up writing more music and reading more books. I'll call it a win/win.
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What the world has truly needed
For iamsquid, of course: Build a Squid -
>poof
Anyone know if playing_tragic is still virtual somewhere, or just went offline? -
Arrogance
One of the problems I struggle with is the feeling that people who disagree with me are wrong. I do my best to keep that feeling in check, but sometimes it slips out regardless - more often than not in ways I don't notice at the time, like a tone of voice or a fleeting facial expression, but occasionally in flat-out disparagement. I don't mean ( Read more... ) -
Money
As I predicted generally in January and more specifically in September, the presidential candidate with the biggest campaign budget won.
The current total numbers from Open SecretsObama: $639,174,281 ( Read more... ) -
Future
Any thoughts on how an Obama administration changes (or not) the NGO scene?
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Optimism
Whatever happens today, remember that there's not one secret ultrapowerful group pulling strings behind the scenes and playing out American politics like some puppet show of the absurd for its own inscrutable purposes.
There are at least two.