This week I'm headed to British Columbia for DrupalCon 2006.

I'll be using my flight time to do some noodling.

Will post from there.

This week I'm headed to British Columbia for DrupalCon 2006.

I'll be using my flight time to do some noodling.

Will post from there.

Anyone else notice that during the '90s little segment of the ABC intro had a flash of Clinton, "I did not have..." Weird. What happened in the '90s? Clinton Lied.

Man, Hank Williams Sr. looks pretty haggard.

"Let us join together before we are annihilated."

Strong words from Mr. Wonder. I wonder what Ms. Franklin and Messrs Jagger, Richards, et all will add to the debate?

"Let us join together before we are annihilated."

Strong words from Mr. Wonder. I wonder what Ms. Franklin and Messrs Jagger, Richards, et all will add to the debate?

GM is making a big push for Ethanol in ads run during the super bowl. Making this from corn is not a great long-run solution (Bush's notion of wood chips and grasses is actually much more viable), but if automakers begin making engines with the necessary modifications to run on Ethanol, that's a net winner for people in the long run. It's not appreciably more expensive to do so, and it opens up possibilities, so that a Good Thing.

Personally I lean more towards diesel hybrids, which I will be able to drive on Algae, or maybe old grease. But if GM really did start making it's engines Ethanol-ready, it would be a good move.

Check the image over on yr right. They're runing a paid blogad campaign, but I jacked the gif and put it up myself at no charge.

This is a petition worth signing. The backing org is Free Press, which is bonafide. Network Neutrality is an important issue. I believe that the right of citizens to freely move data online will a defining issue of the 21st Century. A whole lot of things hinge on that.

Sign it.

Check the image over on yr right. They're runing a paid blogad campaign, but I jacked the gif and put it up myself at no charge.

This is a petition worth signing. The backing org is Free Press, which is bonafide. Network Neutrality is an important issue. I believe that the right of citizens to freely move data online will a defining issue of the 21st Century. A whole lot of things hinge on that.

Sign it.

Well, I take the day off from work and stay home for my appointment (noon to 6pm window) and no one shows up. Call the helpdesk and there's no record of anything happening, no record of an appointment, nothing. The account is still under the wrong name. It's like dealing with a fucking robot. The people who I talk to are not empowered to actually do anything to deal with my problem; they're stuck with the same broken database that's causing the issue in the first place.

The glaring truth is that Time Warner (along with a lot of other large businesses) have automated their institutional knowledge, and have done so in a way that creats errors and which prevents their human customer service agents from correcting problems. They've done this primarily to reduce costs.

They have a monopoly so I cannot take my business elsewhere, but as a consumer I really want to punish this business for being so thoroughly incompetent. It's what the market would want me to do.

Anyone have any ideas?

One fucking day after they were shown to be totally ineffective with the Alito confirmation, PFAW is trying to raise money off the State of the Union speech.

This is exactly the kind of "the internet is a big ATM" kind of behavior that people don't like. PFAW should go back to it's old direct-mail donorbase who don't seem to care about winning and loosing. Better yet, they should go back to the drawing board.

We need accountability in progressive organizations. That means saying no to rewarding failure.