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I See a Wery, Wery Bright Future...
2007-09-19 01:00:00
Okay, so I'm blogging about what I'm reading on a blog that is being blogged live by a blogger at an event that I can't afford to go to. Specifically, TechCrunch 40. Which costs like a gazillion dollars to get in to, so not being a gazillion-aire I'm sending second hand news as the song goes. I'm such a loser. There's seems to be lots of cool Web 2.0 companies at TechCrunch 40 this year. XTR3D creates software that allows users to interact with computers and game consoles using 3D human motions. This will create a true virtual experience for gamers. Wait until the real developers of the internet, the adult entertainment industry not Al Gore, gets a hold of this.... mEgo lets users create personalized avatars that carry their online network aggregation profiles and can be integrated into users’ blogs, social networks, websites, and IM clients. The online profiles display user-picked content like profile details, videos, photos, feeds, and widgets. This sounds like fun, but ...
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Calling all Web App Geeks
2007-09-17 19:03:00
For those of us fortunate enough to live in the SF Bay Area Community Next presents "Platform" this coming Oct. 5 & 6 at Stanford. This is shaping up to be "THE" place to learn about next gen web apps for social networks and APIs and is to feature developers of the top 100 Facebook apps and more...I look forward to meeting the person who created the "send a drink to a friend" app, and buying them a drink, cuz they have saved me a fortune. There is also suppsoed to be over 300 developers, designer, entrepreneurs, speakers and marketers in attendance as well... so get your app on and check them by clicking on the Community Next logo to your left. Even if you don't live in paradise, consider flying in for the event, you can check out there travel and accomodation ideas on the site. Hope to see you there!
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Voyage of the Damned v2
2007-09-08 02:58:00
It's been another week of lunacy shipmates, so hang on as we examine some of the better examples... First off, Larry Craig; who decided not to resign after resigning after admitting to guilt after being caught in a sex sting in a public restroom. And after his GOP buds told him to resign. Can you imagine a bunch of uptight old white dudes who usually pay for sex on the side sitting around trying to decide what to do with one of their own who goes for boys in a bathroom....egads! Anyhoo, old Larry kept the story alive for another week making the GOP look even more useless and lame than usual...if that is possible. Next up, the first adopters of Apple's iPhone. Good God, don't any of you know the first rule of buying technology: NEVER EAT THE FIRST WAFFLE. The subesquent versions of any tech product will always be cheaper and always function better...always. Hat's off to Bill Mahr's column in today's Huff Post for his hilarious postion of letting Bush be Reagan....with lines ...
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Looking, looking...ah, found it...
2007-09-05 23:15:00
There are many new fangled search enginges out there, Wink is cool, and one I found the other day called Spock. Which if you search for people who have been arrested for drunk driving up pops our esteemed president, McBungle and his henchman Quick Draw McCheney....check out the tags for Bush. It would be funny if not oh so true. Enjoy, ya'll.... http://www.spock.com/q/arrested-for-drunk -driving

ooVoo babies got some game....
2007-08-28 14:43:00
Recently I discovered ooVoo, the video conferencing app that is super stable and easy to use. What I didn't know was how much fun others are having with it.... PeeWee Baby - Watch more free videos
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The Whole Kit and Kaboodle
2007-08-27 18:14:00
I've a confession to make. Its something I rarely speak about. Not to my friends or family. It's something I do everyday and there is no known cure, but some have suggested 12 step programs... I'm an online shopper. There I said it, the weight is lifting from my shoulders already. It started all those years ago with Amazon, when the internet was still slow, before Al Gore and Bill Clinton invented it. I'd spend hours perusing books rather than perform the tasks some erstwhile employer was paying me to complete. Then when Zappos came along with that free shipping and their incredible collection of shoes, well, lets just say we are now on a first name basis with the Fed Ex guy; who stops by for birthdays and holidays, and has a seat at the family table. But like sex, online shopping becomes boring when only done alone for long periods of time. And well, Amazon is so much like shopping at Walmart; great deals but who wants to be seen there. So you can imagine my delight when I d...

Skype, Schmipe...It's Time To ooVoo Baby
2007-08-18 01:01:00
With Skype 's service still down in many parts, and pretty patchy when it is up, those of you looking for a viable video conference solution should look no further than ooVoo. I've been using it all day, here's what I did: Had a meeting with 8 people in different parts of the world. All of whom I could clearly see and hear with no latency! During the meeting we could text each other individually and collectively. Send files, (MS Word, Excel etc) to each other during the meeting After the meeting we sent video messages to different participants as a means of follow up. No muss, no fuss....the whole thing worked all the time, with crystal clear audio and video reception. As a Skype user, I gotta say ooVoo rocks the house. AND ITS FREE...what's not to like. Download this awesome light app now at www.oovoo.com
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Saving the Environment is a Snap
2007-08-17 00:06:00
One of the best things to do to help the environment is to do little things everyday. Recycling, walking to the store etc, etc. We all have heard this before and those of us who leverage this conventional wisdom can sleep a little better knowing we won't have to drive a butt ugly Prius to do our share. (Nothing against cars that use less fuel and produce fewer nasty emissions..but come on, that thing looks like a cheese box on wheels and handles like it too, still they sold a million of them...anyhow I digress.) The good folks at Snap .com have come up with a unique application called CO2 Saver that when easily installed reduces the amount of energy your PC uses. CO2 Saver is a lightweight program that manages your computer's power usage when it's idle, saving energy and decreasing the demand on your power utility. The less electricity produced, the fewer harmful emissions and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) are released into the atmosphere. Not only is this go...
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So Long Suckers...Rove Leaves the White House
2007-08-13 21:27:00
Well, another enemy of the state and freedom departs the White House , and one of the most vile too. Rove is often called a political genius and Bush's brain. Well maybe among the current company he keeps he is the brightest bulb...but they're cheap bulbs bought at a discount store. He's mostly a political charlatan who knows how to leverage fear and loathing to achieve his short sited objectives. We're better off as a nation having him in Texas where he will no doubt finagle some sort of suck-up job with one of their flim-flam companies....and yes the continuing lying about having to be with their families is insulting as Kathleen Reardon so well put in her Huff Post blog today..they must really think we're that stupid just because they are. How Rove even became such an influence in the Bush administration is worrisome. Besides managing political campaigns he holds no special skills, education or experience to advise the leader of the greatest nation on the planet, especially ...
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The Rules
2007-08-13 01:58:00
The rules of this blog are very simple, if you stop by and leave an unkind or hateful remark, you get to have your remark, and my response, published for all to see...keep it up and I will publish your email address for all to see. Visitor Ian is the first to break the rules and the first to see his work published, from now on it is called "The Ian Rule . Ian's comments are in response to his reading a post called "Irish Adventure Sports" which submitted by an old friend.... That is literally the most unfunny thing I have ever heard Posted by: Ian | August 12, 2007 at 10:56 AM Ian, to bad you mother didn't teach you better manners. Posted by: Daddawg | August 12, 2007 at 04:53 PM
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F*&^K Me...When Does It End
2007-08-10 06:50:00
When rock band Pearl Jam sung the lyrics "George Bush, leave this world alone" at a music festival over the weekend, fans following along online didn't hear the message chanted from a Chicago stage. AT&T Inc., which broadcast the performance on its Blue Room Web site, edited the lyrics from its live Webcast of the Sunday performance at Lollapalooza, leaving the musicians to cry censorship. HuffPo: Your world, censored.

Daytime Drinking
2007-08-09 17:28:00
I like to think I'm a funny guy, able to come up with quick, witty quips to defuse potentially dangerous situations. Humor is my first line of defense. But not unlike the Bush administration's Iraq policy, sometimes it just doesn't work. The other day a client and friend called to invite me to a wine tasting in their offices. Seems they had just closed a big deal and were going to celebrate with some fine wine the new client had given them. Who am I to turn down a good time? So off I went. There is an art to drinking in the day time. Pace yourself, eat lunch, drink plenty of water and set limits. I ignored the art of the game and hoed in like a pig at the trough. It was good wine, someone found some music and soon other members of the office building were joining in and by 4pm or so we had a "Holy Jumpin' Jesus' party rolling... before I knew it, it was 7pm, my cell phone was vibrating off the hook and I was three sheets to the wind. Knowing who was calling me I ignored the...
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Vote 'Em Out - v2
2007-08-09 01:31:00
Wouldn't be nice if we could vote out the stuff that is just plain stupid along with the just plain asshats & wingnuts who have reduced the country to a blithering mess in 2008? If we could, I'd vote the following out: New wonder drugs that claim to cure social anxiety but may cause explosive diarrhea as a side effect. Think I will stay anxious, thank you very much. And what the heck is Restless Leg Syndrome...nobody ever had Restless Leg Syndrome before some pharmaceutical company invented it. I thought it was when the Long Suffering Child Bride kicked me in her sleep and I had to go sleep on the couch, which is usually pretty rest less. Terrell Owens, Barry Bonds and the rest of the malcontent and/or steriod addled overly paid, whiney-ass professional athletes...enough already. Commercial radio: Thanks to the corporations like Clear Channel your local radio stations have become as entertaining as a fart in an elevator. But don't worry they're dying a slow death thanks to sa...
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Vote 'Em Out
2007-08-06 17:33:00
With the big election looming it occurred to me that we can not only remove the asshats and wingnuts who have reduced this country to a quivering pile of fear and loathing over the past eight years, but we can also remove some of the vermin who travel with the freak show. First on the list… Nancy Grace: If there is a more unctuous and crass person on cable television we haven’t seen it yet, and considering the cast that is saying a lot. Watching you glom onto tragedy and roll around in it like a dung beetle in a fresh pile is simply nauseating. Glenn Beck: Dude, you are just plain stupid. Watching you attempt to discuss international politics is like watching a retard drive the bus to the picnic. Bill O’Reilly: Let us know when you are done sucking Karl Rove’s %$#@. Rush Limbaugh: The grand daddy of all the right wing blow-hards and the biggest, fattest hypocrite on the air. Still sending your housekeeper out to score your prescription medicine from street dealers, whi...
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How many Loinfruits does it take to....
2007-08-02 06:44:00
The other day the water bill arrived complete with the annual leak test kit. The leak test kit is a simple device designed to let you know if your toilet is leaking, which can cause you money and waste a precious resource....water, which any Californian will tell you is like gold in these here hills. Anyways, I figure this is a good job for Loinfruit, who has been on the ball and totally awesome about doing jobs around the house this summer. I break him away from the dark depths of his bedroom and cable TV, give him the kit, ask him to read the instructions, conduct the test and returned to work in my office. The test is simple, one drops food coloring tablets into the toilet tank and waits 20 minutes, if colored water shows up in the bowl...one has a leak. The the scene played out something like this. INT. OFFICE - 20 minutes later Loinfruit: (bursts into office) Dude! Dad! Dawg! Mom flushed the toilet! Me: Whaddya mean she flushed the toilet? Loinfruit: She saw the colored w...

Leaving Tucson
2007-07-27 18:57:00
On the last day of our little baseball holidays we usually go a little crazy shopping, eating and taking in the local culture. Our last day in Tucson was no exception. Leveraging the logic that things would be cheaper during the monsoon season, The Long Suffering Child decided to engage in a search for the perfect swimsuit. I tagged along as I have learned from experience that some serious pub crawling can be done while she is trying on swimsuits. Loinfruit came as well as he was hoping someone would drop a beer and he could dive on it and ingest it before anyone noticed. A trick he learned from Ace the Wonderdog and hot dog buns. About two hours into our sojourn, with a trail of disgarded swim suits and empty schooner glasses in our wake we started to feel like food may be in order. Surprisingly Tucson is home to some incredible restaurants and we tried to visit as many as possible. In particular the BBQ burger at Gentle Ben's Brew Pub, the sushi at Ra and the veal parmigana at ...
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ooVoo
2007-07-18 04:55:00
Regular readers of this blog know I usually reserve it for rubbishing the misguided clowns in the White House, the adventures of the mighty Loinfruit, the woes of the Long Suffering Child Bride or the antics of Ace the Wonder Dog. However, today I am taking a different tact as earlier I experienced the future of video chat and conferencing. In the past whenever I was requested to attend a video conference I spent the time prior to the conference in pure dread, thinking up all kinds of excuses to miss the meeting. Oh, I must fly to Belize for the annual fruit bat migration, or my damn bunions are acting up again and I can't walk for at least a week. All to know avail as I was drug into the meeting only to sit there as a room full of engineers fiddled with the video chat program and equipment for an hour before we could barely see and hear each other well enough to conduct the meeting. By the time it was over we all had screaming headaches and bleary eyeballs. Not so with ooVoo, a ...