Enterprises Likely To Turn Off IE8 ‘Porn Mode’ - Yahoo! News

Yawn.  Apple Safari has had this option for like years now.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/share.html?videoid=0821_HD_ATB_HL_L1148

Not sure why I am blogging this now, but I guess it just hasn’t sat well with me.

About 3:15 into the interview, the questioner asks Jeremy Wariner if his coaching change like a year ago was the reason he just took Silver.  I don’t know about you, but I can’t stand when the media thinks they need to “ask tough questions” of athletes in these situations.  Seriously, Wariner just took Silver in the Olympics and you’re questioning his training and his coaching?  He just beat 6 or 7 of the world’s best at an incredibly brutal distance not too mention thousands who never even qualified and you have the audacity to question some decision he made a long time ago?  I could maybe see if if the defending Gold medalist had fail to qualify for the Olympics, but give me a break, it’s the finals of the Olympics.  Merrit ran an incredible race, and Wariner was the first to acknowledge it (well, second, Merrit was actually the first to acknowledge that he, himself ran a great race.)

So, just like the media always does, they focus on the negative, when they they should have just been polite and let Wariner feel good about being the Silver medalist in the Olympics.

newsobserver.com | Biden quickly adopts role as attack dog
[Biden's] net worth of $150,000 is decidedly middle class among the millionaire members of the U.S. Senate

I find this really scary.  Either it’s a lie, a typo, or Joe Biden doesn’t know how to save money.  Seriously, how does one spend 35 years in the senate, where the annual salary these days is at least $165K and he has only saved $150K in that time?  Just $10K a year in savings would do it in half that time, and that is just in cash, net worth actually counts the value of your home, etc.  Someone needs to do some real digging here.  There’s gotta be offshore accounts or something like that or it is a typo. If not, Joe Biden has no business whatsoever being involved in any discussion of money at the Federal level, because his money management skills are grossly incompetent.  Seriously, in my early days out of college, I was making ~$40K and I managed to save at least $5K/year in my 401(K) and other accounts.  He’s making 4 times that and he can’t put away a few bucks for a rainy day?

As for the bigger dust up on “who’s poorer”, I find it laughable that any of these guys, McCain or Obama, are wasting our time discussing who’s “more in touch” based on how much money the other guy makes.  Let’s face facts, the day any of these guys retire from public service is the day they take a job as a high six figure lobbyist for their favorite special interest.   Not too mention the amount of money each of them already makes. So please, just stop the stupid bickering and the playground taunts.  Talk about something real.  Frankly, I don’t care that either one of you are wealthy, in this day and age of Presidential politics, that is a foregone conclusion.  What I care about is whether you have the skills to lead a country of 300 million plus people in tough times, and at this point, neither one of you is showing me they have what it takes.

Microsoft Picks Seinfeld To Push Vista Against Mac Ads - Yahoo! News
Many users of Vista have only complained, and Cherry said education should be part of the campaign at some level. If a parallel campaign taught vendors how to help consumers select the right PC to use Vista, he said, it could be a winner.

“I believe that the number-one element as to whether or not you will have a good Vista experience is whether or not you bought adequate hardware to run it,” Cherry said. “I believe for people who bought a machine that’s truly sized to run the edition of Vista that they selected, Vista offers a good experience.”

But, isn’t this the fundamental rub when it comes to Mac versus PC?  With Macs, you don’t have to think about what machine will “run” the Operating System, with PCs you do.  With a Mac, when you buy the machine, you know it just works.  It’s kind of like buying a new car and having to ask if the engine in it will be enough to drive it, much less power the radio, A/C, airbags, etc.  Don’t you just kind of assume the engine they install at the plant will be sufficient for the task, otherwise, why else would they put that engine in the car?

Life on a Mac is just so much simpler, which frees you up to spend time on your life, unless of course you’re in that 0.1% of the population that enjoys tuning their PC, then by all means by a PC.

Breakthrough in Charging Mobile Devices Reported - Yahoo News

Can you say cancer causing?  I have a hard time believing it won’t be…

Windmills split town and families - Yahoo! News
Turbines have their place, Yancey says, just not where people live.

I think just the opposite, I think we should stop hiding the turbines and start putting them near/in cities, like they do in Europe.  There’s already a ton of visual and audio noise in a city, the turbines will be just another tall building.  Plus, they will then become accepted and most people won’t think twice about them.  Besides, then there will be a need for less transmission lines, etc.  Of course, you can’t put hundreds of them up in one place in a city, I don’t think, but maybe some brilliant mind will figure out how to put them on top of skyscrapers.