Time Off To Vote on November 6th #TimeOffToVote
”I have felt for a long time that election day in the US (by law, the first Tuesday after November 1) should be a national holiday.
… Brad Feld
… what Brad said.
October 30th Apple Event Liveblog – 512 Pixels
”10:30 AM: I think that’s it for the liveblog. It was like tweeting the event, but on a platform with no Nazis.
… Stephen Hacket
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The fifteenth in my series …
‘Real Stories of Real People – Travels Without Charley’
has been published on BIZCATALYST 360°.
Evelyn has come to understand that decisions are not simple transactions and have real long term consequences.
The fourteenth in my series …
‘Real Stories of Real People – Travels Without Charley’
has been published on BIZCATALYST 360°.
Enrique knows which side of his bread is buttered on and approaches life from the PoV of what he wants … not others.
I live in a ‘safe district’ so signed up to help a candidate campaigning in a ‘not safe district’.
It doesn’t matter which side is which. The point is to do something, because every action - and inaction …. counts.
You Say Complacent - I Say Complicit.
EIGHT DAYS LEFT
iBeacon use slows to ‘a trickle’ … well knock me down with a feather.
Thinking aloud … what if your cellularless 🍎 watch didn’t sit ‘on the back’ of your iPhone. What if you had a cellular 🍎 watch that shared it’s internet access with your wireless only 🍎 iTouch/iPod/iPad mini/iPad … for this odd occasions those devices needed WiFi?
Trying to find something I wrote about Ad Tracking and instead found this from last year abouthow Twitter could easily introduce ‘levers' that would allow us to better fine tune who we follow … and why.
Is The US Exporting Hate?
”U.S. officials are pursuing an effort to strip the word “gender” from United Nations documents on human rights."
Andrea Germanos
Well now … the big corporate race to consolidate and absorb the Independant continues …
IBM to Buy Red Hat, the Top Linux Distributor, for $34 Billion
Interesting variation on the self identification tags that some use … The Geek Code - Futility Closet
Interesting to note that the term ‘Denver Omlette’ was recorded to be first used in print in exactly the same year as ‘black power’, ‘bruschetta’, ‘cash-flow' and ‘Doppler radar’.
My thanks to @jack for the link to the Meriam Webster Site where you can learn this … then again - they also record ‘pasties' in that same year - but meanwhile here The Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550 specifically references ‘pasties’.
SO, either the site is American centric - which of course being MW - it likely is ) OR maybe they are referring to different pasties - which can be learnt about here.
How a Middle East Startup Took on Uber — and Won
Banned in countries and cities around the world, exiting certain geographies, losing to the competition .. and yet its ‘valuation’ - i use the word loosely - sits in the stratosphere.
What can possibly go wrong.
Why RSS … … for all the reasons we know and love.
Get a copy of the data associated with your Apple ID account
… added to my list of things to try out.
Sometimes truth leaps off the page … as with Julian Summerhayes
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
”If you think this message is no better or worse than the horsesh*t you’ve been sold or you’ve bought into, only to be desperately disappointed, then I can see that but then again you won’t find me offering a 7-step programme or the like to come alive to true self.
Julian Summerhayes
Kate Kennedy … never heard of her until last Saturday. What a life.