One of my new favorite otter shots. The camera is a modest one, the lens ? Less so. This was taken near where I used to live and yet again I really miss the geography, hate the politics.
Anyway enjoy this, and all his other otters.
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Mobile-ish site up for this blog.
Greetings. The nascent mobile site using the mobile press plug-in is now active. I’m going to mod the templates over the next couple of days and also have to work out how to stop it from tripping back to the mobile after a user has asked to see the full one. Theme doesn’t have nice big targets for fat fingers either:)
December Round up Go Daddy party, blogging and moobies!
Filed under Culture-internet, General, blogging
My Personal blogging has been quite light over the past months. I’ve found that most of the items I want to “chip in” is sated by commenting on them via Google Reader and quite frankly there are better written blogs on every subject apart from that niche category.. “what does an internal exile that escaped Scotland to come to the USA think about the weird customs ,practices and beliefs of his adopted nation” which is , regardless of grammatical heresies , the authoritative source for what I believe that I believe at the moment. It may look like a list of things Hal thinks are stupid especially when voted upon but I assure you that the 18 , 26, and 30 year old me didn’t keep the same list so the next time you batter someone on the head with an opinion keep it around a decade or two and see if that idea really stands up. Where I am not in error, though these are rare and happy events, relates to illogical ideas. E.g when people ask me to keep something the same but change it I don’t see how any restatement of their request can lead to a “happy” answer.
At the moment these are things that interest me.
Mobile web, the kind of world that emerges when resources are too costly to move people to and from places of work,education as a matter of course, educating our toddler, thinking of alternate ways to make a scrapyard profitable and dare I say green? Locating items which are truly innovative and not just this year’s restatement of the past with a couple of features , aka the marketing departments mega pixel effect were more is better, cough bullshit.
Go Daddy Christmas party.
Last night saw Joan Jett at the companies Christmas Party, aka Go Daddy. We got home around 1am and bought her last CD, Sinner by Joan Jett which made up for the other two acts Sinbad , the last syllable is devastatingly accurate, and 38 Special ( I was ignorant of their oeuvre ) and I had to leave my own 38 special at home this being a work event and there being drink and all:)
We also had to forgo hearing Patrick Lauder sing the national anthem at the Coyotes vs Redwings game , for which is were we would have been barring the party, but instead had Lillian Garcia sing which , no offence to Patrick, is physically prettier but he wins out on overall delivery 
Still Lilian was really good and way better than the usual histrionic warbling and 3 or four notes when one would do from singers that may have the impression that singing the song’s more about their performance. Yep I’m glad nowadays when the longest held note contest is a separate event:D.
That’s all very cool but what’s even better is the message given by our CEO, Founder and lover of things two wheeled and European , Bob Parsons who, after riding up to the podium on a Ducati let us know that we had our best year ever, are not an example of the kind of company, institution that promoted dud loans, built too many car or houses. The company gives a lot of time , via staff, and money to charities and this is the annoying part coming up. Since when do you have to justify success in the USA? Understand I am not getting at those justifying but the people asking the question in the first place.
Many companies curtailed their parties because of the business climate and to them , I say hum bloody bollocks bug to you. The number of staff to cater, provide entertainment, services etc that’s money going to real businesses, same with the shoes, clothing and other accessories. The money that the staff won guess were most of that is going too? I don’t often post on work related items because it’s a difficult balance to not come across as a gushing fan boy which as anyone that knows me would find hard to reconcile with my cynical daily demeanor. The latter is a relative scale , seriously in the UK I was pretty much on the optimistic side:) So celebrating two thousand people, their families and the charities, venders and stores that benefit from Go Daddy’s existence is something that should NEVER be apologized for at any time and certainly cheered my holiday up.The laser and fireworks finale would have been perfect toddler material but it pleased my inner toddler greatly will post some pics as they come in.
[The views expressed on this website/weblog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of Go Daddy Software, Inc.]
Oh I nearly forgot.. moobies!
upgrade starts now please ignore any weirdness next hour:)
Filed under General
upgrade starts now please ignore any weirdness next hour:) 2,7 here we go
More crap on the unimportant crap. The e-how rather than the why of Indian terrorist attack
Filed under Culture-internet, Demon Haunted World, Media mayhem, You have nothing to fear
I know the name , least what’s widely believed to be, of the first "murderer" that was outrun by radio Dr Crippen. People like to tie the new with the very very old but usually it’s in the other direction E.g look at how these infernal machines are aiding those with malice in their mainframe to carry out.
Would driving a car get the same attention? How about using a camera? Is it more newsworthy if it’s silver halide or CCD that captures the image? Radio type or something else? Oo let’s scare people with VOIP not only does it not let 911 know where you are (rtfm) it’s now enabling decades old dispute in a new manner that’s just so so so hard to have envisioned prior to its adoption.
VOIP is not the challenge it’s made out to be here. Impossible? Impossible to intercept surely some mistake unless there’s a whole load of forgetting about India’s tussle with Rim. India wanted to monitor the Blackberry network and got that concession.
I’m also rather less impressed with stories on how highly trained they are. I must be missing something here since shooting a passive crowd and lobbing grenades at the same time in different locations doesn’t seem to be on my list of hard to conceive plots.
"Definitely they were trained,” said a masked officer of the force.
”Not everybody can fire AK-series weapons.
”Using such weapons and explosives, it is obvious they were trained somewhere.
Do you have a spare 10 minutes? Ak’s are famous for their robustness when used by irregulars, nades, baseball! as for the explosives I have no idea but they always kept me away from that safe Oddly enough the reporting in realtime that provided this alleged edge is not considered to be an inappropriate use of technology.. weird that.
Mumbai terrorists’ most powerful weapon: VoIP phones | Computerworld Blogs
The Times reports that the handlers were communicting with the attackers using VoIP phones that made it difficult, if not impossible, for the Indian authorities to intercept the calls, or even know they were taking place.
Here’s how the Times explains it:…
Is it just my memory that lasts longer than 30 second commercials? Bloomberg is vocal the responsibilities of public figures that are not elected:)
Filed under Culture-internet, General, Media mayhem, humor, political
Don’t get me wrong there has to be consequences for carrying a loaded firearm into a nightclub that is discharged. Like a hole in the leg, pain and maybe the end of your athletic career. Still that’s not good enough we really have to show em:) Shame that the same zeal doesn’t apply to those that enforce the laws
Hospital suspends worker who failed to report NFL star’s gunshot – CNN.com
Bloomberg, who has long fought against illegal gun ownership, said public figures “make their living because of their visibility. They are the role models for our kids, and if we don’t prosecute them, to the fullest extent of the law, I don’t know who on Earth we would. It makes a sham, a mockery of the law.”
One word answer…..
Spitzer.
