One of the important things that takes a concept to implementation is necessity. Not to rehash that tired old “Necessity is the mother of invention” phrase, but it’s sort of like that with technology. Lots of people say “why would I ever need to take pictures with my cellphone? or videos? Why would I need to be able to route my phone number to someplace else? Why do I need to access my email/bank account/etc from anywhere? Why would I want to build or participate in a ’social network’?”

It’s good to see people actually start to put this stuff together to organize, participate, and help each other in situations of crisis and emergency. Good case in point, the Gustav Social Network, hosted on Ning.

Visit Gustav Information Center

Michael Totten has a very indepth article about Georgia, Ossetia, and Russia on his website.
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/08/the-truth-about-1.php
Give that the US is involved, and will probably continue to be involved in the future - this make for long but important reading. Maybe read it a couple times.

Screwed around with Conky a while ago, finally got it sorta back to how I like it.

Still need to figure out how to grab CPU and MB temps - but almost there.

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On the iPhone

Oh look, I got a myspace - Hamsterized

One of the apps that I’m seriously considering running is PageOnce.

It seems pretty brilliant - the only issue is that you’re giving all your data and passwords off to a 3rd party and hoping they don’t get hacked.

There’s a concept of graceful degradation in webdesign, but Toyota apparently is having none of it. Pretty much any request from a device that doesn’t run flash (or doesn’t allow it at large) gets you a message like this.

Not sure what the common is - but I doubt that a high brand/high asset investment website should give you a brush off based on plugin support. Closed source will never be a standard.

Pass.

Because a bad drug war hurts us all, wastes our money, incarcerates our citizens, and prevents us from focusing on the real threats and concerns of our nation.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5843/show

They’re releasing their new single as sheet music and inviting people to cover it and share their own version of it. How brilliant.