Written by John Minnihan, founder of Freepository. I write about software, automation and anything else that interests me.
June 15th, 2008 — Social Awareness
Reading @sacca yesterday got me thinking anew how fortunate we as Americans really are. Even with a president that has been as disastrous as Bush, we can "start over" at least every eight years thanks to term limits.
With that in mind, I’ve added a Countdown timer to the sidebar this morning. If you want to add your own, go right ahead. My source for this is in the source.
Only 219 days, folks. We can make it.
February 6th, 2008 — Social Awareness
And I’m not riffing on the Romantics. Just a little while ago, my two sons (who are on day 1 of a nearly four week school break) began arguing with each other over the amount of clay each one had, and I overheard the argument turn ugly.
February 5th, 2008 — Social Awareness
I came across this video when Jon Gruber posted something he’d read about giving a presentation, and how that differed from giving a speech. The post he linked to itself contained a link to this video, which I found incredibly interesting.
Steve is not terribly entertaining here, but it is clear he’s being incredibly honest. And it has nothing to do with Apple, really. Just Steve reading some notes, giving a speech.
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
Tags: ’steve jobs’, apple, communication, speeches
February 2nd, 2008 — Social Awareness
I really hope he gets the nomination. As I live in Denver, I’m going to try to get involved in the convention.
I was IM’ing with a close friend today when he asked me who I supported for President. I replied ‘Obama’. Turns out he does do, and he immediately turned me on to this video. When I watched it, I got goose-bumps. This guy - when I hear him speak in a context like this - simply blows me away. I can’t recall ever having that reaction to any living politician.
Ever.
EDIT. The video is at dipdive.com, but I’m simply embedding it here. It looks like that is OK.
January 23rd, 2008 — Social Awareness
Wow. My gut told me it was a lot, but this study provides an irrefutable quantity:
935
Here’s the CNN report about the project:
And here’s the project itself, complete with a searchable database. Amazing stuff. Thank you to everyone involved.
This is incredibly disturbing, but sadly unsurprising. At what point does “…publicly made false statements” turn into “lied” ? This damage will take years, and quite possibly decades, to repair. I hope that both my kids and I (and Jen) live to see our country once again behaving as though we want the rest of the world to behave.
There’s hope. It begins in January 2009.