If your a nerd like me, you should be reading geek comics. My two favorites are:
both well done, current, and quite funny.
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The Politics of Tech
I’m not political, so here’s my political analysis geek style:
Republicans
Analysis
- Prefer proprietary technology
- Invalid HTML is universal across sites, minimal web standards)
- Choice in media players (QuickTime, Windows Media, Real)
Cases
Republican National Committee
GOP
GeorgeWBush.com
Democrats
Analysis
- Prefer Open Source (most of the time, especially DNC website)
- Prefer Web Standards at times
- Choice in media (Windows Media, Real,
Quicktime)
Cases
Democratic National Committee
JohnKerry.com
Democratic National Convention 2004
Others
Analysis
- Varied, platforms but better than Republicans
- Web Standards seems more important
- Choice in media players (QuickTime, Windows Media, Real)
- Lower budget websites
Cases
Nader
Cobb (Green Party)
Seems Contributors tell quite a bit about what to expect in the parties tech, as well as their policies [Republican | Democrat | Nader]
Sidenote: Of these, only the Bush Campaign seems to be using lots of negative campaign tactics. Even on the website it’s very obvious. Third parties use virtually none. Kerry has one ‘politically correct’ worded message on ‘Why Bush is wrong for America’. Bush makes it the focal point of his website these days. There seems to be more on Kerry than George. An interesting observation on tactics.
This isn’t scientific, or an endorsement of any candidate, just a quick little analysis on how parties view the internet, and web standards as well as open source platforms and comments as I feel appropriate..
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2 computer problems in 1 day
2 out of 4 computers had problems today. Yea! Home computing is fun!!! 🙁
One was a relatively quick fix. Simple disk scan ended up fixing the permissions error, or whatever was wrong with it. The other (Bender, the file server), wasn’t so easy. Something ravished permissions on the System drive, causing tons of errors. Ended up formatting the System drive and doing a clean install. Easier than trying to fix it all, since that validate permissions option is a load of BS. As I type, I’m recompiling Perl 5.8.3(since Jaguar has 5.6.1). Overall, not to hard, since OS X comes so nicely packaged. Also a good excuse to update everything to more recent versions.
Previous uptime record is 28 days for that box. I think we can do better this time around 🙂
I did get a change to go workout though, so It’s not an ubergeek day.
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Virtual Screen
Check out this video screen. That’s great. Imagine watching movies like that? Sounds pretty good. I’m hoping it will catch on. I could really use that.