always wanted my name painted on the office door.
While I well understand that things were a little tense when President Obama spoke at Notre Dame’s commencement, one would think that grads at this level might have put a little more thought into the counter-protest: Obama entered the arena to thunderous applause and a standing ovation from many in the crowd of 12,000. But as [...]
The Apple developer sites for both “Web Apps” and “Safari” are not responding at all. Ken’s Paranoid Prediction: Apple’s pulling back on the stunningly cool and advanced CSS functionality (transforms and animations) now available in Safari Mobile and iPhone native WebView in favor of the same functionality in native iPhone programming. WWDC09 is coming up [...]
OK, folks. This will take about one minute and you don’t need your thinking cap. It’s about budgets and stimulus and stuff. Total U. S. Population: $280,000,000 Proposed 2010 U.S. spending: $3,400,000,000,000 So, 2010 per person (man, woman, and child) spending: $12,000 Average number of people in a family: 3.1 So, 2010 per family spending [...]
I am forty-five years old. Two-thirds of a long life are past, and I have done nothing to distinguish it by usefulness to my country or mankind. I have always lived with, I hope, a suitable sense of my dutes in society, and with a sincere desire to perform them. But passions, indolence, weakness, and [...]