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Why is Miers so secretive about her past? Well I’ve got a theory.

Follow me on this, and you will see that Harriet Miers indeed has a lot to be secretive about. I hope none of this comes out in the hearings; it is of a personal nature and has no business in public discourse.

Harriet Miers –> Mike Myers –> Austin Powers –> “She’s a man baby!”

Using this euridite line of deductive reasoning that is closely related to Farrakhans numeralology bullshit, I think I know the secret to Mier’s past…

Has anyone ever seen Harriet Miers and Michael J. Fox together?

Doohan’s ashes to be launched into space along with fan tributes.

I don’t know. Seems to me they should expend every available resource to figure out some way to beam Scotty’s ashes to space. Anything less than ‘givin it all they got’ would be inappropriate. Once the technicalities are overcome, they can get Captain James T. Kirk to flip open his communicator and say, for the first and last time, “Beam Up Scotty”.

If nothing else, they should make up an elaborate hoax. The people interested in this kind of stuff would most likely buy it.

I just had an epiphany while cleaning the garage. I am referring to the regular garage that is full of garage-type crap as opposed to TheGarage where the secret lab is located.

The epiphany? I had just cleaned this bitch up a few weeks before the Hurricane Rita evacuation. Now I’m pissed.

And what really sucks, TheGarage is in similar piss-poor condition. I guess when I put everything back, I just put everything in the general area where it goes. It didn’t actually put stuff up where it goes.

We didn’t even get any rain, though there was some horrendous wind damage. That’s why all the crap from oustide the house is stacked to the ceiling inside the garage. When you are expecting winds from a category 4 hurricane, the last thing you want is to get hit with a mop bucket flying through the air at 145 mph.

Oh well.

Gigglechick finds her mom’s crochet magazine cover to be funny. I don’t see what the big deal is.

Can you see what the big deal is?

x-posted in my Photo blog.

From the Web 2.0 article written by Tim O’Reilly that I mentioned in an earlier post, the author makes the following point:

A further point must be noted with regard to data, and that is user concerns about privacy and their rights to their own data. In many of the early web applications, copyright is only loosely enforced. For example, Amazon lays claim to any reviews submitted to the site, but in the absence of enforcement, people may repost the same review elsewhere. However, as companies begin to realize that control over data may be their chief source of competitive advantage, we may see heightened attempts at control.

On the other hand, as “participants”, aka, consumers, begin to realize the value of having control over content they create in the form of comments and reviews, we may see heightened attempts by the consumer to recieve reciprocal remuneration for supplying valuable content.

Maybe thinking such as that will not be widespread until Web 3.0, but I’m already there.

I just read this long but very interesting, well-written in-depth discussion by Tim O’Reilley that slices smoothly through all the hype about “Web 2.0″.

The article provides a little table of Web 1.0 technologies and the Web 2.0 compliment for each.

Summary of philosophies that earmark a Web 2.0 organization:

Core Competencies of Web 2.0 Companies

In exploring the seven principles above, we’ve highlighted some of the principal features of Web 2.0. Each of the examples we’ve explored demonstrates one or more of those key principles, but may miss others. Let’s close, therefore, by summarizing what we believe to be the core competencies of Web 2.0 companies:

• Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability
• Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them
• Trusting users as co-developers
• Harnessing collective intelligence
• Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
• Software above the level of a single device
• Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models
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If you are not in to reading long technology columns, you might just want to check out page 3 where O’Reilly discusses the personal websites transition to blogging.

If your have any interest or need to know about current technology trends and how those trends will be shaping the business models of successful interent companies of the future, I recommend reading the <a href=”whole thing.

The market always sorts out supply and demand issues.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – More bicycles than cars have been sold in the United States over the past 12 months, with rising gas prices prompting commuters to opt for two wheels instead of four.

Not since the oil crisis of 1973 have bicycles sold in such big numbers, according to Tim Blumenthal, executive director of Bikes Belong, an industry association.

When everyone from the corner gas station to the storage tanks at the wellhead in Saudi Arabia have excess inventory on hand the price will plumment. Always does.

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