Pirate Cinema is a ripped-from-the-headlines near future tale in which 16 year old Trent McCauley gets his family’s Internet access blocked for a year because he was downloading movie clips for the brilliant remixes he makes and posts online. The lack of Net access costs his father his job, and makes it very hard to […]
Back in 2008 I wrote, “I’m voting for the candidate that will deliver less war and more freedom. The hippies had it right when they said make love, not war. I’m voting for Barack Obama.” I guess he delivered less war and more freedom than a McCain administration, but I had higher hopes than that. […]
This post, relating the battle between traditional political pundits and Nate Silver to the conflict between proponents of traditional evaluations of student performance in school versus the new wave of statistical student evaluation ignores what I think is the bigger question. Why are we so hell bent on measuring students success in school in the […]
It was 70 degrees and blue skies today. I decided that instead of watching Purdue get blown off the field by Ohio State I would go for a hike. So Breck and I hit Spotsylvania Battlefield, to walk the 7 mile trail through the battlefield. It was a gorgeous day for a hike, and the […]
For those of you that don’t pay attention on Facebook, Michelle and I drove 12 hours to Indiana on Thursday, and then back again on Sunday. The mountains of West Virginia on I-68 cost me 7 mpg in the Corolla. In dash USB ports are a wonderful thing. There is a certain beauty to a […]
Mug Shots are big business on the Internet. Depending on where you live, if you get arrested your mug shot will forever be generating ad revenue for some skeevy website that collects mugshots. The knee jerk reaction is to not feel much sympathy for criminals, but notice that word in the above paragraph. Arrested. Innocent […]
The news that Google is killing off Adsense for Feeds is disconcerting. What is Google Reader from Google’s POV? It is a vehicle for displaying the ads that they were placing in RSS feeds. If they are no longer doing that, why would they continue to support Google Reader? This concerns me. I’m a fan […]
If you read my ramblings via a feed reader please resubscribe now with this link. http://www.odonnellweb.com/feed/ Google’s Feedreader service is on a death watch and odds are it will stop working entirely before too long. I was redirecting my feed through it, so odds are your link goes through Google. Thanks. The Management. Possibly Related […]
This interesting blog post seems to indicate that Facebook is gearing up to take on LinkedIn. I guess it makes perfect sense from Facebook’s point of view. Your network is the best place to find a new job. Facebook has the best digital representation of your personal network on the Internet. Personally, I maintain Facebook […]
Bookmarks have been a standard feature of web browsers pretty much since they were invented. Does anybody use still use them? I just depend on my browser history to find sites I’ve visited recently. I start typing the site name and the URL auto-populates. One click bookmarking in the browser or on the web has […]
