Wednesday, November 5, 2008 04:09pm EST /

Last night, President-Elect Barack Obama delivered the final speech of a presidential campaign that promised change in Washington: Now the work begins to deliver on this promise by planning the agenda and priorities for the Obama Administration.

Change has come to America | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team.

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing. Three out of these five implements — answering machine, fax machine, printer, phone and electric can-opener — all dropped dead on me in the past few days.
Now something has gone wrong with all three television sets. They will only get Sarah Palin.

The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla - Dick Cavett Blog - NYTimes.com.

Write or Die is a web application that encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing. Start typing in the box. As long as you keep typing, you’re fine, but once you stop typing, you have a grace period of a certain number of seconds and then there are consequences.

Write or Die : Dr Wicked’s Writing Lab.

Election results by state

Most of us are, by now, familiar with the maps the TV channels and web sites use to show the results of the presidential election:

Election maps.

Vote!

V O T E !

Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.
With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players won’t save it.

Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony! | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com.

SHENANDOAH - Throughout Marjorie Gipe’s life, she has been a “go-getter;” and at the age of 98, she isn’t slowing down.

SW Iowa News - 98-year-old takes English Comp class.

Date-shifting in iPhoto ‘08
I get a lot of requests to add date-shifting support for iPhoto 08 to my iPhoto AppleScripts. But in most cases, the scripts would be completely unnecessary, iPhoto finally built this feature into the application. Here’s how to use it.

Date-shifting in iPhoto ‘08.

This is a nice and handy thing. I can finally get all of my “web-saved” images into a sensible spot.

I guess some people might find it easier to read (and write) if it weren’t for all of the spew around a posting. Postings aren’t supposed to be that big of a deal.

8/13/2008 by John Whir | No comments

New rule tomorrow…

Hanlon’s razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

My 11 Favorite Eponymous Laws — Garrick Van Buren .com.