Browsing » September 2008

Supporting the 2nd Amendment

  Thoughts on the second amendment I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away. A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers and recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying. He asked ‘Why do you carry a .45?’   The Ranger [...]

Share

Why I could never be president?

  The current price of wheat for export would cost $97.00 per barrel and would be shipped in 60 gallon barrels. That cost  of the above item would be double for countries who screw us on oil. Banks who make bad loans would be closed, like every other business and executives would be fined for [...]

Share

What I’ve been up to lately

It’s been a few days since I’ve written anything of personal substance, so I thought I’d consolidate my previous week or so into a single post. So, what’s been going on with me?   Chris has a new apartment: Our long time friend, Chris, got a new apartment recently. April, myself, and a few others [...]

Share

Air Sharing for iPhone 3G: Great Feature

For those of you who are looking for great file sharing apps for the iPhone, I would greatly suggest Air Sharing. It’s currently the top app in the iPhone store and is Free until this end of this week. Next week it goes on-sale for 6.99 at regular price.   What it Does: Basically, you [...]

Share

Fox 8 Fox 14 Sucks: (Suddenlink Cable, Greenville, NC: Comments Welcome)

The Constitution of Abused Viewers: We the people who watch your network, in order to form a more perfect viewing experience, write this request to establish better programming, insure glitch-free TV shows, provide for high-quality viewing, promote the death of frozen frames, and secure the blessings of better television for ourselves and our posterity, do [...]

Share

Jon Stewart’s Story Writers for President!

Here’s another one. I’m adding Jon Stewart to iGoogle like, um, now.

Share

Deciding Who I’ll Vote For

I’m still not sure HOW they each plan to put their policies in place, but I’m spending a lot of time going over their official policy statements to help me make an informed decision. Here are some of the stances I find important to me in my voting decision. You may or may not share [...]

Share

Ramadan Mabruk my Libyan Friends

Being a self-obsessed American, I completely forgot it was Ramadan in Libya already. I was reading something today that reminded me to check the date and sure enough… Happy Ramadan! I’m so very sad that I’m not there to share in it this year. Although my American customs probably offend some in Libya during this [...]

Share

India and America: Same news?

India is blaming the US because our Soy prices have risen too high to allow their people to live? Get a grip! Associated Press News Article published on Yahoo: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080906/ap_on_re_as/indonesia_soybean_curse Have US soy prices taken a hike lately? Yes. Why? Because oil prices have taken a hike lately! Our farmers are trying to grow what [...]

Share

Jon Stewart Leaves McCain Bleeding on the Floor…

Ok. This is just funny! I don’t care who you are. On an honest note, I have no idea whom to vote for in this year’s election. While I think Obama is a reversal of the previous administration which we severely need, I think Daffy Duck might be just as good a candidate. I haven’t [...]

Share

Should parents and companies be concerned? – Private Browsing and “Porn Mode”

I’m posting this as a new article because I feel its an important issue that doesn’t need to be relegated to footnote status on my previous article about Chrome and Internet Explorer My biggest concern with all the new browsers comes as a mixed emotion. Private browsing was released with Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 [...]

Share

Google Chrome: Makes Mozilla Step Up, Microsoft Squirms, Adobe is Lost

In what seems to be an call from Mozilla not to be forgotten so quickly, the developers of Firefox have released a last second upgrade to Firefox 3. Though still in beta (recommended for developers and testers only) this new version seeks to take the limelight away from Google Chrome just a little bit. As [...]

Share

Google Chrome: New Browser

I’ve been playing with Google Chrome since it came out this week. So far I’ve got to say I’m impressed with the new browser. It’s lightning fast, lightweight, has a small cpu footprint, and seems to do most everything I’ve tried so far pretty well. The only thing that’s not working so far is the [...]

Share

Get Adobe Flash player