Recently the John McCain campaign has had trouble with rights holders issuing DMCA takedown notices to YouTube for bits of songs or newscasts used in McCain advertisements on the service. The McCain campaign wrote a letter to several people at YouTube (and parent company, Google) asking them to please evaluate these claims before taking the [...]
To those who haven’t done both, writing for the web might seem very similar to writing for print, but the two are very different. Print media is largely governed by its finite space. Stories have to be not only a certain length, but also a certain size so that they may be squeezed into what [...]
Yesterday morning Tasha had a work meeting which she assured me would be boring, but of an indeterminable length. As I didn’t feel like driving from the city, back home, and then back into the city to pick her up, I grabbed a set of headphones and set to wandering about the new city. The [...]
Portfolio.com ran this neat little article way back in the middle of September, but it seems to have slipped by many of us. The article applies John McCain’s data and applies that to the Social Security Administration’s mortality table to come up with the odds that John McCain would die in his first term of [...]
So the project that is affermato was supposed to be a two-week, quick and done project. That was in March. Here we are in October and it’s not yet in private beta. Why, you ask? The answer is that both Lamonte (the developer, Chuck D) and myself (the promoter, Flavor Flav) have hectic lives that [...]
Tasha and I are still knee deep in the process of getting moved into our new apartment. This is, of course, a big change from living at the Perry’s house for the past six weeks. It is, also, a much welcomed change as we are people who enjoy a space that we can define as [...]
The oddest conversation of the day happened before I’d even gotten a chance to eat my lunch. Even though I was included in the oddest conversation of the day, I was only given a supporting role. Lobby – Day Our hero (BRADLEY) is flagging the elevator to wait as he rushes towards it, sandwich, chips [...]
Remember when I said a few days ago that the House of Representatives was actually listening to the whims, right or wrong, of the American people who seemed overwhelmingly against the financial bailout plan? And then I provided a list of bailouts that have happened since I shortly after I was born? Well, the House [...]
I was taking advantage of the night at home before the move this weekend to do some much needed website maintenance. I actually managed to bang out a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that makes my website run faster, and that makes things easier to find not only here, but on the internet at large. One [...]
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