Month: August 2004

One of the reasons I bought my Motorola V600 (note: now $49.99 with rebates!) a few months ago was its Bluetooth capabilities. In particular, I planned to get a Bluetooth headset so that I’d have a wireless earpiece for the phone; friends had raved about them and I figured it would be a nice addition.…

I’m very excited to announce we closed our series A round of funding today with a mix of prior investors and new investors (most notably, Omidyar Network, the company founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar). Special congrats to Ross who worked tirelessly to make this happen, in addition to his normal CEO duties like, oh,…

This whole swift boat thing is getting goofy. It reminds me of the Bush camp’s use of Hitler in one of their web-only ads a couple months ago. Somehow, this election promises not to be about ideas, but about who can be more outraged at the other side’s outrage, and who can get John McCain…

Last month, Erik gave me a hard time about my utter failure at back-up, and concluded by saying that “I hope to convince Rick to back up his data.” I’m happy to report that I’m now backing up my entire hard drive on a regular basis, and it couldn’t be simpler. In the past, I’d…

From an observer at the dedication of the Hyde Atrium at Midwestern University earlier comes this gem from Henry Hyde: “When I first entered Congress I wanted to change the world, now I want to be able to walk out of the room with dignity.” Come on folks, give Henry the dignity he obviously wants.…

I think it’s safe to say they’re definitely not lining up behind Keyes. In today’s Pantagraph (from Bloomington-Normal) was this report chock full o’ good quotes about what Republicans are saying about their candidate: “I’ve got some people who are not real happy that he is from out of state,” said state Sen. Dan Rutherford,…

While catching up over at Texas Rainmaker, I found this thread a pretty compelling deconstruction of the traditional liberal vs. conservative argument on social programs. I’ll be gathering my own thoughts on this subject soon. But Jason’s original comments, coupled with the back and forth in his comments, is a good start.

Interesting… PoliticalWire reports that a former girlfriend of John Kerry’s has decided to take down her virtual scrapbook after receiving hundreds of hate e-mails from both Democrats and Republicans. Someone should explain the Google cache to her. Kinda makes you wonder what a Teresa blog would look like… Update: Google’s cache now shows the deleted…

I just got a heads-up that UserLand is beta-testing Atom 0.3 support for the Radio/Manila aggregator. This is a huge deal, because there are quite a few RNC feeds that are from Blogger sites, and they only have Atom feeds, and the authors don’t understand why we can’t process them. Now, hopefully, we can. […

Last week I noted that This is Rumor Control was reporting rumors of Iranian money and weapons finding their way into Iraq, an Iranian strategy to bloody the U.S. ahead of any U.S. invasion of Iran. Today, TiRC is confirming that story: The Interior Ministry said that it would release a videotape of the arms,…