Archive for the 'Things I like' Category

NASCAR 2012 Looks Like More Of the Same


Well, the 2011 racing season is done, and the clock just struck 2012 everywhere. Well, everywhere except NASCAR land, where they continues to work on their 1960s inventions and machines, proudly being as ungreen and unclean as the come. First 2011: The only hilight of the year is Tony Stewart winning the cup. Let’s just [...]

I Deleted My Facebook Account Today


I cannot imagine how time flies on the the internet, how fads and fashions come and go. I have been online and working online since the early 90s (I had a pre-commercial internet account though a local provider here… on dialup!). I have seen plenty of things come and go, but it’s the last few [...]

Birthers Flustered By Obama, Become Deathers Instead


What a weird world we live in. Since President Obama became the candidate for President of the US a few years ago, there has been a group of people who think he that he wasn’t born in the US. These so called birthers are the mouth breathers of US politics, a group that makes Sarah [...]

2011 Do or Die For NASCAR


As a long time racing fan, you sort of get use to the ebb and flow of racing series. They have good years, and they have bad years. The people running various racing series either make really great decisions, and advance their sport, or they make incredibly stupid decisions that leave their sport in tatters. [...]

Internet Freedom is a Right Down with ACTA


The title is what I consider to be the chant of the ignorant, the greedy, the people I nicely refer to as “generation Diss”, who disrespect anyone and everything that doesn’t give them all they want for free. ACTA is a trade agreement and treaty between many nations (most except the usual suspects), which seeks [...]

Larry King Calls It Quits, But Slowly


As I mentioned back in April, it was getting clear that it was time for Larry King to Retire. While I am sure that my blog entry made not a wit of difference to the old guy, I think that time and reality have finally caught up to Mr King. He announced this week that [...]

LimeWire Probably Doomed After Court Decision


Illegal file sharing fans are in a funk the last little while following the Grokster decision and rulings against major player The Pirate Bay, and now they have more to be concerned about. In a decision handed down in US Federal Court this week, Judge Wood ruled Lime Group, parent of LimeWire software maker Lime [...]

Lou Dobbs Quits CNN (again)


While it may be a shocker to some, the “resignation” of Lou Dobbs from CNN has pretty much been a foregone conclusion for a while. CNN as a network is floundering badly these days, unsure of it’s direction. But Lou Dobbs has been sure of his direction, going from a reasonably friendly Newsy guy to [...]

Tom Cruise Dead? Nope Just a Little Weird


It’s almost a traditional thing now, the Tom Cruise dead rumors seem to come up about two or three times a year, more often when he is doing something nutty. Recent stories have peopel from inside his camp reporting on his weeks of trying to use his Scientology powers to dominate door knobs and other [...]

Jon Stewart Burns CNBCs Jim Cramer


Jon Stewart is at it again. The host of the insanely funny comedy news show The Daily Show has once again managed to make more news that the news itself. This time, he has taken aim at CNBC’s aggressively opinionated analyst / commentator / hedge fund manager Jim Cramer. Stewart ran a series of clips [...]

Will Obama Ease Sanctions on Cuba


With all sorts of difficulties in the world, a failing economy, and an unpopular war on the other side of the world, President Obama may be looking for an easy and clean victory to add a little luster to a Presidency that has so far been mired in difficulty. The Guardian newspaper is reporting that [...]

Electric Trucks To Lead Eco Way?


I can certainly mark this story down in the category of “I didn’t see that coming”. I can also say that I am pleasantly surprised and happy to see this sort of thinking coming to the streets. EVI USA is a company that has been working on the whole concept of building delivery trucks that [...]

Obama Inauguration leads to traffic heck


I think the people who live and work in the Washington area are glad this sort of stuff only happens once every 4 years, because it’s turning into a disaster. President Elect Obama will soon become President Obama, and the Inauguration ceremonies mean that much of the capital region is being closed, blocked, redirects, and [...]

Most Popular Internet Searches


The internet is an amazing place in part because it most easily reveals what people really want. Example being that the vast majority of people will say that they have no interest in adult material, but more than 50% of all web surfers have searched for something related. Following up on this report from Hitwise, [...]

November 4th 2008 election day in the US


November 4th is election day in the US. While I am not an american citizen, the race in the US is important to much of the free world, as the President of the United States is often considered the de-facto leader of the free world. So if you are American, on November 4th, please vote. [...]