For some time now, I’ve been unable to blog easily from my iPhone because the “Press This” plug in stopped working well – I suspected it was because of all the extra crap Google Reader adds with the “$UTM” tracking codes to the URL. I’d also noticed that the “Press This Reloaded” plugin worked okay, except that the link it added was only “complete” (including the title of the page linked, the a href HTML tags) if I happened to select some text to quote. It turns out that’s the way Scribu, the plugin developer wrote it. He was assuming…
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I just don’t understand why Air India didn’t just charter a bus for these people – their flight into London Heathrow was diverted to Gatwick, a little over an hour away. There are regular express buses (called coaches in the UK) between the two airports and there’s even regular scheduled bus services that are really cheap (the fare is about 25GBP). Instead, they were forced to sit on the plane for up to 9 hours while Air India waited for a rested crew to show up to fly the plane from Gatwick to Heathrow. If they’d been put on a…
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Link: Cantor Backtracks: Protesters’ Frustration ‘Warranted’ | Video Cafe.
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Passed along by Mashable, a video that’s worth watching today. “I made this song using only sounds from Apple products and Steve’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech. Every instrument, including drums, has been sampled from a Mac product, tuned by ear, and replayed in the context of the song.†via Steve Jobs Day: This Video Will Make You Cry.
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Terra Nova tonight was predictable; show needs Mr Sulu running around with a sword and less pesky dinosaurs. 😉 @GeorgeTakei # In the coming weeks I predict the Terra Novans discover a "lost" tribe of humans descended from a penal colony, led by Crazy Math Boy. # Also in coming weeks, the little girl makes friends with a cute little dinosaur whose venom is the key to medical miracles. # Meanwhile, how long do the Terra Novans have until that asteroid strike? How does the rebooted human race survive global extinction? # Also in coming weeks, they meet some biped…
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Top #teacon organizer Stevlic no-shows event after old arrest for soliciting featured on Gawker.com. http://t.co/nxF7Kso6 # Why do GOP party flacks always dismiss scandals with "This is old news" or "This is nothing new"? #Teacon http://t.co/E1SjGSth # RT @mashable "No iPhone 5? Apple May Only Launch iPhone 4S [RUMOR] – http://t.co/N3MGzwJE" # Don't you trust Koch Industries to buy us the best Teabagger lawmakers? Neither do I. http://t.co/jZi5J1IM # Koch Industries: Selling illlegally to Iran, stealing oil, firing whistleblowers, killing poor teenagers. http://t.co/jZi5J1IM # Re: #Koch Industries, where does the money for smear campaigns (school boards, Wisconsin) come from? Hell…
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Thanks, Accordion Guy! The Question on Every iPhone 4S Buyer’s Mind Update: Rest in peace, Steve Jobs.
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Headed home today. It's been an awesome vacation. # Random sights from our vacation: Giant RV hauling a full-size Hummer. # Cackling table of no-information inbreds ignoring Sunday punditry shows in hotel breakfast room. #vacationRAM # Cute ground squirrel ready for his close-up, begging for snacks. #vacationRAM # Farewell, Big Thompson River. Just crossed you for the last time. # Just yesterday we were near the headwaters and the Continental Divide at Milner Pass. #vacationRAM # Recommended: The Anniversary Inn in Estes Park will be open THRU WINTER. Terrific breakfasts, extremely convenient to RMNP. # Of course we enjoyed our…
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We went down to visit with my husband David’s parents tonight, for dinner and to celebrate my birthday one last time. My birthday was actually last Saturday, which was pretty fun as it was the last full day of vacation. We spent the evening with my college friend Arne, catching up and drinking delicious beers at Coopersmith’s Ale House in Ft Collins. Then on Sep 27, I celebrated my second birthday, because the first year we were dating, David thought that was my birthday. Also, my father-in-law got mixed up and thought it was the 26th, so they called a…
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The biggest part of this story isn’t that Joe “Deadbeat Dad” Walsh was a late addition to the speakers’ list at the Illinois Tea Party Patriots’ “Teacon 2011” event in Schaumburg at the Renaissance Hotel. It’s that attendance in this story was reported to be about 600 activists, where only yesterday they were expecting at least a thousand, a lot fewer than attended last year’s “Right Nation” thing. Even with Glenn Beck headlining – and this year’s Right Nation has been pushed back, probably into 2012 in order to not conflict with this shindig and to be closer to the…