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Blackberry Blogging (again)

Its fun and so good for you. Well, not really but it could be. Just testing something. Sorry to bother. More and better soon.

I know, I know, how could it get much better than this?

Five years.

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Five years? Damn, five years seems like a long time. It isn’t really. I only wish I could feel better about things like how our government is handling our safety. But from where I sit it seems like we are less safe than we were before.

I’ll feel better when our current President is out of office. Perhaps then we can have a leader that builds alliances instead of tearing them down, puts his people’s welfare in front of his own fundamentalist agenda and generally tries to ensure that what happened five years ago does not happen again. Ever.

It’s a very important goal and one that I hope our next President takes to heart. I wonder, though, with the current crop of Democrats, who that might be. Kerry? Gore? Clinton? Who knows. Whoever it is, I hope they are prepared to learn from the past so they are not doomed to repeat it. Smart person, whoever said that. Can’t remember. Maybe it was me.

I was remembering where I was five years ago today as many people are, I’m sure. I was in bed when we got the first phone call telling us to turn on the TV and that we had been attacked. Attacked? What does that mean? So, I crawled out of bed, went into the living room and turned on the TV. I didn’t get up again for at least twelve hours.

Everyone knows the images of that day and everyone should remember them. I know I will never forget.

If you want more about today, go here, here, here or here.

Also, here’s writer Cory Doctorow’s first post from the morning five years ago. Even now, it was hard for me to read it. I didn’t blog back then. Don’t know if I would have been able to anyway.

To brighten things up a bit and get a little humor, try this. Although, this one may make you angry more than it makes you laugh. I had both reactions. I will say that the laughter helps you get through the anger so try it, it may help you. It did for me.

At least for a little while.

Ask the MACist

Just in case you don’t get enough Chris in your day I am now writing a weekly Mac help column for LAist called “Ask the MACist”. Today is the first one so please take a minute and check it out.

And, if you have any Mac or Mac-related questions, feel free to send them in. Maybe I will be able to answer one for you and as an added bonus, you can see your name in print! What could be better than that?

Nice weekend all.

Format Wars – HD DVD and Other Stuff

Over at LAist I have posted a rather good (IMHO) article about the HD DVD format wars. So, as I don’t have anything cool or witty to say
here, how about just going over to LAist and reading the article? That would be great, thanks.

Here it is.

Or, if you insist, here are a few other great things to read. One, written by me and others, written by some equally intelligent and fantastic people.

Enjoy!

Flickr cross posting and fake vegas

there’s this thing you can do with flickr that allows you to cross-post to your blog when you upload photos to your flickr account. i’m going to try to do that from time to time (or more often if i have nothing to say) just to see how it works and also because its fun. yay!

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on another note, i really wish i had gone to sunset junction (even though zach had some issues with it) instead of the rather lame vegas in la thing last night. even with vip treatment (thanks leah) it was still mostly a lot of wine that wasn’t very good and food that was either bland or had run out by the time we got to it. although, the very nice (and very attractive) ladies at the pizza rustica booth were kind enough to give me a coupon to visit the restaurant and eat for free because they had run out of food. classy.

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plus, as much as a gambled with the fake money they gave us (vegas, remember), i couldn’t loose it. we finally had to give it away to the chief from border grill just so we could leave. i hope he enjoyed it. i wish my luck was that good in real vegas but no . . . only in fake vegas in santa monica do i win so much money i have to give it away.

oh well could be worse i guess. at least some of the desserts were good. especially the little coconut cream pies from luna park. they were yummy.

enjoy the rest of the weekend.