Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Twitter is a service where people send frequent, often meaningless, text messages to their followers. The service has suffered some bad news in the press recently. First, some high-profile accounts, including Barack Obama’s, were recently hacked. Mike Arrington reports on his Techcrunch.com site: …someone hacking into Twitter’s internal admin tools and compromising 33 high profile [...]
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
I posted earlier about how to obtain coupons for digital converter boxes. Brian Stelter of the New York Times reports that President Obama wants to delay the conversion: …President-elect Barack Obama urged Congress to pass a bill delaying the transition by three months. Lawmakers are weighing whether to push back the scheduled Feb. 17 transition [...]
President-elect Barack Obama and VP-elect Joe Biden were not the only ones traveling to Washington DC by rail this weekend. Markus Garner wrote an article for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about citizens riding the Amtrak Crescent to Washington D.C. for the presidential inauguration: “I thought it was neat that Barack Obama was riding the train” to [...]
Monday, November 17, 2008
As regular readers of this site know, I am a big fan over free over-the-air television. Why pay for an expensive subscription service when so much is broadcast free of charge? Just tonight, President-elect Barack Obama’s first post-election interview was on 60 minutes, the Washington Redskins vs Dallas Cowboys football game was on, and the [...]
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
The WINC 92.5 FM Morning Mindbender yesterday asked: Besides running for president, what do Barack Obama and John McCain have in common? The answer: Neither have ever driven a stick shift automobile! Since both candidates claim to be committed to the environment and reducing dependence on foreign oil, perhaps they should learn how to operate [...]