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More than Charisma

From Bob Herbert, in today’s New York Times: > “… [we’ve witnessed] the almost desperate hunger in this country for mature leadership, for someone who is not recless and clownish, shortsighted and self-absorbed...

Not surprised that he gets to keep it

There’s been some back and forth silliness about whether Barack Obama can keep his Blackberry. All the pundits said “no way” but I thought, geez, the guy is President (did you hear?) all he has to do is say: ‘make it so’: > “On Monday, a government agency that the Obama administration  — but that is probably the National Security Agency — added to a standard blackberry a super-encryption package…. and Obama WILL be able to use it … still for routine and personal messages.” (from Marc Ambinder inAtlantic) But, he won’t be allowed to use IM 🙂

HOPE

Chris and I, this morning, looking forward to a great day. We’ve waited and worked for this. And now the day has come. I saw the inauguration communally on a big screen at the Regent Theater in Arlington with hundreds of other cheering folks. It was a fun and exciting event. People even stood up for the actual oath of office. Quite something!

Tweeting from more than one account?

You might be interested in what BlogBridge is doing about twittering from more than one account: > “Sometimes I tweet on my own behalf (’the weather in Curacao is hot’) and sometimes I tweet on BlogBridge’s behalf (’can I help solve your problem?’) This poses a bit of a logistical challenge for me.” (from BlogBridge blog) Please weigh in!

More on Steve Jobs

Breaking news from CNN: “Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes leave until end of June; Jobs says health issues “more complex than I originally thought.”

Madoff Scammed His Sister, Too!

Check out this post Madoff Scammed His Sister, Too!: > "A division has appeared in the Madoff family: Those who invested all their money with Bernie (such as his now wiped-out sister)…and those who didn’t (including his sons Mark and Andrew and his brother Peter). Forgive us for tentatively concluding that the Madoff family members who didn’t lose their shirts on the scam knew or suspected that something was going on." (from: from Clusterstock) …

I think Bono would have said: “What an honour”

Check out this post Greg Mitchell: Bono Replacing Bill Kristol at New York Times?: > "What an honor," said Bono. "I’ve never been great with the full stops or commas. Let’s see how far we can take this." (from: from Huffington Post: Front Page) …

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30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions

Check this post 30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions from Mashable!: > We’ve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know you’ll enjoy, whether you’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 and are looking for something new to add to your browser, or have yet to make the upgrade and are looking for a reason.  Lots of good stuff there if you are a FireFox 3 user. Check ’em out! Originally posted on Jun 27, 2008. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.

Update on Jobs’ health

In case you didn’t see this, it’s kind of interesting if you follow Apple and our pal Steve Jobs: > ““I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors,” Jobs, who turns 54 in F...

Michael Lewis and Harry Markopolos

In an excellent article on The End of The Financial World as We Know It, an even more fascinating story about Harry Markopolos: > In his devastatingly persuasive 17-page letter to the S.E.C., Mr. Markopolos saw two possible scenario...

Using Google to make community standards transparent and objective

This New York Times article, “What’s Obscene? Google Could Have an Answer” is pretty interesting, and makes sense at some level: **“Judges and jurors who must decide whether sexually explicit material is o...

Remember to change your clocks tonight

“Revelers will have an extra second to enjoy the New Year celebrations. Drunken party goers may not notice but, thanks to the Earth’s erratic rotation, the countdown to 2009 will last a moment longer. British physicists and official timekeepers around the world will insert a “leap second” to bring the most accurate atomic clocks in line with the astronomical day[…]” from Big Ben Adjusted for Leap Second Happy New Year. Bon Anja, Tur Kos Bon!

Kevin Kelly writes about pervasive (or is it ubiquitous) screens

I always love Kevin Kelly’s writing and thinking and this article in a recent New York Times Magazine doesn’t disappoint. I ha...

Dumb as we want to be?

Thomas Friedman with another thought provoking column. I know not everyone likes his perspective but I find myself in violent agreement more often than not: > “All I could think to myself was: If we’re so smart, why are other people living so much better than us? What has become of our infrastructur...

The most beautiful book?

Now here‘s a recommendation: > “I recently got a hold of what I consider to be the nicest mathematical book in my collection. As a matter of fact, it’s the nicest book I own, period – even though I posses bookshelves teaming with terrific titles on mathematics, science, programming, computer science, photography and so on.” (from Math-Blog) That goes right onto my wish list!

Cold, cold, cold

Is twitter for people or for marketing?

As you may have noticed, I am using Twitter a little more often now. As much as anything it is to learn more about what it’s like, because we are working on full Twitter support in BlogBridge, which should be cool. The question is, what should i...

MINT and security

I have a new favorite web service: Mint. It’s a really nice implementation of kind of a “Quicken” online, but with a few unique wrinkles. Here’s what it does: - Automatically and periodically downloads all the transactions from all your various accounts, banks, credit cards...

Support Club Passim in Harvard Square!!!

Hey! If you live in Boston or Cambridge, and you like music, especially Folk music, then you’ve probably been to Club Passim in Cambridge – Harvard Square actually. It’s a lot more than a ‘Coffee House’ – it’s an institution where many of your favorite 70s acts got ...