Atari 2600 Label Maker

Monday August 27, 2007

Someone has made a nifty online Atari 2600 Label Maker.

Ah the nostalgia. I miss the 8-bit world. I think I would give up my broadband to go back to 24009600….14400….28800….56000…ah who am I kidding.

Your Party Work Culture Sucks

Thursday August 2, 2007

For proof…watch this.

Doesn’t that make you want to go work for a startup? At least you can have fun while making other people rich off the back of your ideas and innovations.

Now get back to work! You don’t have deadlines just to have deadlines!

Pick Your Candidate

Monday July 30, 2007

I can’t say that I have seen any candidate that really excites my political side. I am very glad to see Kucinich running again. I love his approach and even though he doesn’t have a shot at it he forces the other candidates to get real with the issues, their viewpoints, and how they plan to support their viewpoints if they get into office.

In effect, he’s the only “real” person up there that’s not just trying to be a protagonist for all sides (aka politician). Too bad we don’t elect real people because we collectively fall for the protagonism.

I did the Pick Your Candidate form and put in where I stand on all the issues and it scored them like this:

Gravel 29
Kucinich 27
Richardson 19
Obama 17
Edwards 13
Clinton 13
Dodd 11
Biden 10
Paul 8
McCain -4
Thompson -5
Giuliani -9
Cox -10
Brownback -16
Tancredo -23
Huckabee -27
Hunter -31
Romney -31

Mr Gravel and I only disagree on one issue (Citizenship Path for Illegals). I guess my viewpoint on that is pretty unpopular. In short I believe there already is one….more than one in fact. I’m not racist and I believe in diversity and the “melting pot”, however coming here illegally and expecting an extra hand-up is expecting too much. We have our own citizens that are poor and homeless as well. I’m all for helping people get on track, but that should be equal. No special treatment. I believe granting amnesty to people who bypassed the process is giving special treatment.

Kucinich and I disagree on a few minor points including the Citizenship question.

Everybody wants to shake things up. We all agree that there are no good candidates, right? Why not give Dennis a shot at it. One thing we can all agree on is that it would be very different and the most interesting presidential term in the last 70 years or so.

We could all look back on this time and say we sent a message and changed the country as citizens, not big corporations and lobby organizations.

Link to the survey: http://www.dehp.net/candidate/

Desktop Clock

Friday July 27, 2007

Many people have commented on the big clock that I keep on my computer desktop. In the past I have had to explain that this is a linux thing however there is now a version for windows thanks to Yahoo! building (copying?) a Widget set.

Yahoo Widgets can be downloaded at http://widgets.yahoo.com

A version of the Chrome Clock is here.

UPDATE: Yahoo didn’t copy Konfabulator, they bought it and reworked it into Yahoo Widgets.

Simpsons Brian

Wednesday July 25, 2007

Me as a Simpsons character. I didn’t design this all by myself it was more or less by committee. If you have a better version of me feel free to send it. You can make your own at The Simpsons Movie site