🎵True Story - enjoy … particularly the two 🎵 links at the end.

I will update with the links to the article when it is finished.


How to measure altitude with iPhone

.. I thought this was going to be a really clever piece of advice down in settings somewhere .. turns out you start by downloading an app called ‘my altitude’.

Good Grief.


Why should anybody trust Facebook with their personal data?

Better Question … why do journalists .. I use the term loosely .. keep asking the same question?


Get the award-winning BusyCal 3 for only $20

I have used BusyCal (and contacts) for a couple of years … great deal


It seems appropriate … enjoy the video



As Flake Demands One-Week Delay, Warnings That Key Senators Could Use FBI Probe as ‘Political Cover’ to Confirm Kavanaugh

What … exactly … will the FBI find out in a week?

Side note …. if he is confirmed … can a civil case progress against him?


Sparking Progressive Fury, Tom Perez Says DNC Would Continue to Back Any Democrat Who Votes for Kavanaugh

I’m sorry … I’m not ‘a progressive’ but this is friggin ridiculous and exactly why the democrats lose.

Good Grief.


"Kavanaugh showed himself to be a vicious partisan who feels entitled to do and say whatever he wants, who suspects leftwing plots against him, who refuses to take responsibility for his actions, who uses emotional bullying and intimidation to get his way."

Robert Reich

The Full Story


"But overall, it was hard to see translating Kavanaugh’s outrage, shouting, conspiratorial partisanship working out at the Supreme Court. So much for thinking we need someone as sober as a judge."

David Crook

The Full Story


"All this for a few thousand steel jobs and coal jobs that shouldn’t be saved in the first place. Trump’s trade war is going to do to American workers what Bush’s Iraq war did to thousands of American families. Devastate them."

Dana Blankenhorn

The Full Story


Can Jeff Flake stop being his name sake and make a decision?



Mojave and Backblaze

.. well given I am 100% into Mojave .. I guess I’ll posptpone the backblaze adoption.


Dear Young People: “Don’t Vote”

I wonder if they will pay attention?


Conserve the Sound, an Online Museum for Old Technology Sounds

… very cool … and is it me … or on the second click through, does the site itself even have a Germanic feel to it?



New news from @manton (at least to me. I have just discovered that we can embed recent micro blog posts in the sidebar of another blog ….

Just tried it out still messing with the CSS … but this might inspire me to put the sidebars back on to my other blogs.


U.S. business asks PM May how bad can Brexit get?

Well she won’t know will she?


Rupert Murdoch’s Fox to sell Sky stake to Comcast

It’s telling that I was so much against Murdoch taking 100% of Sky that I celebrate Comcast beating him out. COMCAST. Good grief … what has the world become?