Yostivanich

“Ear­lier today, Val­ley­wag ran a story about the U.S. gov­ern­ment hav­ing access to Twitter’s “fire­hose” of data. The news appar­ently came from a source who pre­sum­ably over­heard a Twit­ter employee talk­ing about it at lunch. To cat­e­go­rize that as “flimsy” would be an under­state­ment. And so it should come as a shock to no one that Twit­ter is deny­ing the allegations.”

“This is the war in Afghanistan today, where death is mea­sured less by the accu­racy of bul­lets than by the clev­er­ness of bombs. And though the Afghan insurgency’s impro­vised explo­sive devices, or I.E.D.’s, are less pow­er­ful or com­plex than those used in Iraq, they are becom­ing more com­mon and more sophis­ti­cated with each week, Amer­i­can mil­i­tary offi­cers say. This year, bomb attacks on coali­tion troops in Afghanistan have spiked to an all-time high, with 465 in May alone, more than dou­ble the num­ber in the same month two years before. At least 46 Amer­i­can troops have been killed by I.E.D.’s this year, putting 2009 on track to set a record in the eight-year war.”

“Judge Sotomayor approached the task as a sea­soned advo­cate. She struck a tone of atten­tive def­er­ence, avoided need­less argu­ment, said no more than she needed to pre­vail, stuck almost entirely to uncon­tro­ver­sial points and avoided antag­o­niz­ing her questioners.”

“Today, Google is adding the abil­ity to migrate from another pop­u­lar enter­prise app, IBM’s Lotus Notes. The new tool lets cus­tomers migrate mail, cal­en­dar and con­tacts from Notes to Google Apps. The sync­ing tool, which Google says is a native Notes appli­ca­tion, can be installed and con­fig­ured in less than 30 min­utes, for mul­ti­ple users at once. The tool has already been tested with 40 of Google’s enter­prise clients, includ­ing John­son­Di­versey (10K users) and Valeo (32K users). The tool is free for Google Apps Pre­mier and Edu customers.”

“Judg­ing by this screen­shot taken by an IE6 user who was watch­ing some videos on YouTube, it appears the Google com­pany will be phas­ing out sup­port for the browser shortly. I don’t have Inter­net Explorer 6 installed on my com­puter, so I can’t ver­ify this first hand, but illog­i­cal it seems not and a sim­ple Twit­ter search shows mul­ti­ple peo­ple con­firm­ing the news. Heck, some are even down­right ecsta­tic over the news.” I am totally ecsta­tic, maybe YouTube will get a decent design.

“But now they’ve done it. I was watch­ing on live web­cam last night as the Fal­con 1 rocket launched a Malaysian satel­lite into orbit.” It was an awe­some show.

“Include them — as the Labor Depart­ment does when cal­cu­lat­ing its broad­est mea­sure of the job mar­ket — and the rate reached 23.5 per­cent in Ore­gon this spring, accord­ing to a New York Times analy­sis of state-by-state data. It was 21.5 per­cent in both Michi­gan and Rhode Island and 20.3 per­cent in Cal­i­for­nia. In Ten­nessee, Nevada and sev­eral other states that have relied heav­ily on man­u­fac­tur­ing or hous­ing, the rate was just under 20 per­cent this spring and may have since sur­passed it.” Also called the under­em­ploy­ment rate.

“Steve Ballmer’s extra-large mocha, triple-shot frap must have kicked in at just the right time. Microsoft’s chief exec­u­tive put on one of his clas­sic, chest-thumping per­for­mances on Tues­day for atten­dees gath­ered at the company’s part­ner con­fer­ence in New Orleans.” Oh Ballmer the amuse­ment of my news day.

“Think about what this head­line implies. The con­vic­tion of one par­tic­u­lar financier is regarded as a mes­sage to all financiers. That is out­ra­geous.” Thought I would make a note to those that think I only dis­agree with blog, I agree with this statement.

“Kevin Matt­son, a pro­fes­sor of his­tory at Ohio Uni­ver­sity, lays out the events of that sum­mer like a big, rolling ban­quet. This isn’t a high-end meal — Mr. Mattson’s prose would not war­rant even one star on Michelin’s scale — but it is sur­pris­ingly tasty, if only because the his­tor­i­cal ingre­di­ents are fas­ci­nat­ing and first-rate.” Love that last line.

“The tags used to track the rub­bish are a depar­ture from these more pas­sive stud­ies of city move­ments. Ulti­mately, the team hopes that the tech­nol­ogy can be minia­turised and made cheap enough that the tags could one day be attached to every­thing.” Tag­ging trash and see­ing what hap­pens to it.

“If Sarah Palin is resign­ing her posi­tion as Alaska’s Gov­er­nor to run for pres­i­dent, she faces doubts – even from Repub­li­cans – about her abil­ity to be an effec­tive one, accord­ing to a new CBS News poll. Less than one in four Amer­i­cans, 22 per­cent in par­tic­u­lar, say she does have the abil­ity to be an effec­tive pres­i­dent. Only 33 per­cent of Repub­li­cans say she does.”

“Greg Sar­gent cuts right through the DC BS and nails Ses­sions for what he is. Greg notes that Ses­sions has repeat­edly attacked Sotomayor for say­ing her her­itage influ­ences her. Ses­sions sees that as inher­ently evil. But, Ses­sions voted for Samuel Alito, who tes­ti­fied that his her­itage guided him”

I per­son­ally haven’t used Tasks, but good to hear it’s so popular.