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John Smith for President
June 30, 2008 – 10:59 am
Chesapeake Bay Foundation has its own presidential nominee. Forget Obama or McCain or Nader or what’s that other guy.
Captain John Smith is running for President and he needs your help.
That’s right, Capt. John Smith of colonial days. His love of the Chesapeake Bay and the environment extends to today.
Smith, when asked about his campaign, said, “I stand not just for a clean Chesapeake Bay; I stand for clean rivers and streams all across America. For if we can clean up the Chesapeake Bay, and working together we bloody well can clean up every stream, river, and bay in this country. We can make the Chesapeake a model for restoration success, for the rest of the nation and for the rest of the world.”
Campaign staffers suggest that the best way, at this late hour in the campaign season, to get Smith’s name included on ballots is to sign this petition. 10,000 signatures gets it done.
I’m doing it. Are you?
Disclaimer: The Smith campaign is a parody because, obviously, the dude has been dead for 400 years or so. However, the need for a clean Bay, rivers and the ecosystem as a whole is a strong enough cause to vote for even today. Sign this petition and help it get done.
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June 26, 2008 – 5:18 pm
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Siemens PLM User Conference, Day 2, JSF Thoughts
June 3, 2008 – 10:33 am
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June 2, 2008 – 4:31 pm
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Indiana Jones
May 23, 2008 – 2:26 pm
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the first Indiana Jones move in 19 years. I make no promises about spoilers, but will attempt to avoid giving the story away.
The opening scene was the hook to get Indiana Jones loves back into the action. Indy is now quite a bit older and the setting is many years later in the heart of the Red Scare. The enemy is no longer Nazi Germany, but the Soviet Union.
Indiana Jones survives a missile range speed acceleration testing track, loads of highly trained Russian Red Army with a strange inability to hit targets with their guns, three drops over Niagara Falls-size waterfalls and the collapse of yet another temple.
The requirement for the suspension of all belief aside, it was a pretty good movie. Definite popcorn flick. 3.5 Stars which isn’t bad for a Lucasfilm comeback.
Easter Eggs include: The Ark of the Covenant, Area 51, Shia LaBeouf nearly putting the Indiana Jones hat on his head, the Death Star drawn on a wall and a few more that I might have missed.
It was classic Indiana Jones. Historical plot woven with supernatural thread. Very enjoyable, but not at all believable.
The Answer to Everything
May 22, 2008 – 2:32 pm
My friend, Chris Bachmann, turned me onto the Shallow Thoughts podcast which is hilarious!
Here are thoughts on Life, the Universe and Everything.
Enjoy!
Working with Lijit
May 19, 2008 – 6:09 pm
Today was the first day of retirement for me. Well, not technically retirement. Don’t I wish! But it is my first day of doing independent consultancy.
My biggest client is also the company who I’ve been the biggest fan of during the past year. I discovered Lijit at Gnomedex last year. Their angle was what sold me.
Lijit is all about placing context around search. It can search across multiple points of contact - YouTube, Flickr, blogs, etc. Because it provides context, the Lijit Wijit provides a way for readers to search a site, all of the owners content or even all the content in the owners network of friends and contacts.
Because Lijit allows you to pull in all these contacts as well as points of content, it is able to provide a much more sane approach to search. Does this eliminate Google? No, not exactly. However, at the risk of sounding like Jason Calacanis, Google is filled with all kinds of irrelevant content as well as spam.
Take this for example. If you want to fix the problem of “too little virtual memory” on Windows, you can search Google for virtual memory, and get informational articles from Wikipedia, how virtual memory works, etc.
However, if you head on over to Ask Dave Taylor, the cyber “you’ve got questions, I’ve got answers” man, and search his site with the Lijit Wijit, you’ll find his post right away.
While this seems trivial, it’s pretty important to know that the information you get is authoritative and that you can trust it.
Enough pitching.
Now that I’ve begun work with Lijit, I wanted to share it with everyone who was concerned about what I’d be doing next. This is one of those things and I couldn’t be more excited.
Plus, now Micah Baldwin has been unseated as the #1 douchebag at Lijit - which is important.
