Archive for May, 2005
Star Wars: Revenge Of The Left
Monday, May 30th, 2005I saw Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith tonight. While I had heard about the political undertones of the movie, I expected that they wouldn’t be as bad as they were made out to be. I was wrong. They were as bad, if not worse. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed the movie.
MA and RI Have Worst Drivers
Friday, May 27th, 2005It comes as no surprise to me that Rhode Island drivers are the “worst in the country in knowing the rules of the road.” Massachusetts ranked next to last.
As far as my state, Massachusetts is concerned… What can you expect from a state that repeatedly reelected Ted Kennedy?
Amnesty Irrelevant
Wednesday, May 25th, 2005So, Amnesty International calls Guantanamo Bay the “the gulag of our time.”
Should we care about what Amnesty International thinks when they are a group that supports a convicted cop killer?
UPDATE: NRO : Amnesty International Knowingly Misleads..
One Lousy Deal
Monday, May 23rd, 2005As soon as I heard there was a compromise I knew it was going to be bad news…
Does He Deserve An Apology?
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005The Smoking Gun has posted a series of documents relating to the Runaway Bride story. this one caught my interest, it is an e-mail from a tipster on April 29, with the following observation:
While watching the news conference given by the family today there was a gentleman at the end of the tent on the right that went out of his way to keep his face off camera. This was an Oriental looking gentleman. I was scanning the crowd knowing that sometimes people who commit crimes like to be in the limelight or on the fringes of an investigation.
While I find this funny is that I am friends with that “Oriental looking gentlemen.” I asked him about his behavior, and he explained:
[I] didn’t want people who knew me there (reporters and what not) to think i was there working. i was there to be a friend, not a media person.
He works for a media network, and had taken some time off work to participate in the search for his friend Jennifer Wilbanks.
Does this mean Oriental looking gentlemen deserve an apology too?
Should Runaway Bride Apologize To Hispanics?
Monday, May 9th, 2005I had a feeling when I heard that Jennifer Wilbanks had told police she was abducted by a Hispanic man and a white woman that it would cause outrage amongst the Hispanic community. Indeed, they are demanding an apology.
Personally, I don’t understand why the Hispanic community feels they are more deserving an apology than all the people who spent hours trying to find her, or law enforcement for wasting valuable man-hours as well.
Fernando Mateo, the president of Hispanics Across America, said, “she needs to understand that what she did was criminal and the fact that she accused a Hispanic man could have led people to manhunt a Hispanic person for no reason whatsoever.” He has suggested she perform community service in the Hispanic community.
This is ridiculous.
For one thing, a manhunt never occured, and she accused a Hispanic man and a white woman of kidnapping her. No one is suggesting she repent for possibly leading people to manhunt a white woman? She also said she was taken in a blue van…. Should she perform community service for owners of blue vans too? Hispanics are no more deserving an apology than anyone else affected by this incident, and I think it is safe to say that the Hispanic community suffered little from it.
Google News, Google Schnews..
Monday, May 2nd, 2005I have to say lately I’ve had problems with Googe News…
It used to be a great way to find stories from local or MSM sources… but now it seems like i can’t search Google News without getting a result back from some obscure blog. I thought it was great that Google News decided to include blogs, but it seems they don’t have great selection standards. Blogs For Bush was denied for the most bizarre reasons, but other blogs, similar in virtually all ways except they aren’t branded with our President’s name, have been accepted.
Nevertheless, they’ve let certain blogs in, kept certain blogs out, and it seems that I’m getting Google E-mail Alerts because blogs are more likely to use terms I’ve created Google Alerts for than actual media sources.
Google News needs to establish standards for accepting blogs and they have to stick to them….
Safari RSS
Sunday, May 1st, 2005
This weekend I got Mac OS X Tiger. I’d been looking forward to it for a number of reasons, but as a blogger, I was particularly excited about Safari RSS. After using it a bit for a couple days, I have to say it is the best RSS reader I’ve ever used… and I’ve tried a lot. I found the RSS reader with the Mozilla Thunderbird email client to not be very good at all, downloading duplicate articles and no good customizable viewing for feeds.
Safari RSS allows you to modify the size of feed articles, organize by date, title, or source… It is user friendly and clean. I’ve set up a folder of blog feeds to keep me updated on all the blogs I regularly check up on, and I’ve created a folder of news feeds so I can see wire stories and news article from any news source I view that has an RSS feed. I imagine this will make finding news stories to blog about much easier.