Yostivanich

“Hey look! It’s Mon­day, and that means it’s time for a new Mem­o­ries of the Future­cast.” More fun with Wil Wheaton.

“A sec­ond rea­son devel­op­ers are shown the door is that they aren’t com­mu­ni­cat­ing the great results of their work. If you think crank­ing out tons of code from the safe con­fines of your cubi­cle will ensure your job secu­rity, think again. You have to pro­mote your work.” I agree.

“In Iowa, con­ser­v­a­tives had threat­ened to seek a pri­mary elec­tion oppo­nent if Mr. Grass­ley cut a deal with Democ­rats. In Wash­ing­ton, they openly spec­u­lated that if he were re-elected, he would lose his chance at the top Repub­li­can seat on the Judi­ciary Com­mit­tee after 2010. As for Pres­i­dent Obama, the inabil­ity to work with a leg­is­la­tor with a record of prag­ma­tism like Mr. Grassley’s under­scores the dif­fi­culty of restor­ing bipar­ti­san­ship in a polar­ized capital.”

“How­ever, instead of Rep. Lynn Jenk­ins laugh­ing at unin­sured con­stituents, we find vot­ers actu­ally laugh­ing at another Kansas Repub­li­can — Rep. Todd Tiahrt. Ear­lier this sum­mer, Tiahrt held a town hall meet­ing on health care reform and made the false claim that H.R. 3200 will set a cap on doc­tors wages. That claim has been debunked across the board and the atten­dees knew it.”

“Hav­ing trou­ble remem­ber­ing your med­ical his­tory? Try Face­book. Some 13 per cent of US med­ical schools have reported that their stu­dents have leaked con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion about patients via blogs or social net­work­ing websites.”

“When we launched Google Sync for Con­tacts and Google Cal­en­dar ear­lier this year, an over-the-air, always-on con­nec­tion to sync mail was notice­ably absent. We heard your requests loud and clear, and start­ing today you can use Google Sync to get your Gmail mes­sages pushed directly to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or Win­dows Mobile device.”

“Ms. Whit­man, a 53-year-old Repub­li­can, made her announce­ment amid grow­ing chal­lenges to Cal­i­for­nia, which has been hit hard by reces­sion, unem­ploy­ment, chronic bud­get prob­lems and the flight of busi­nesses to other states. She touched on all those issues on Tues­day in her first speech as a can­di­date, sound­ing a strong anti­tax, anti­reg­u­la­tion and anti­spend­ing message.”

“The for­mer mem­ber of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said he heard about the de-baptizing event two weeks ago. Tues­day after­noon, Brin­ton fol­lowed through and was debap­tized in front of 10–15 peo­ple clus­tered around the event spon­sored by the Sec­u­lar Stu­dent Alliance in the Quad.”