The settlement in a Facebook privacy case allots nothing to the plaintiffs and about $2.3 million to their lawyers. From nytimes.com today.
Monthly Archives: August 2013
So exactly what does this have to do w/the price of tea in China?
Off topic post via Crain’s & Chicago Tribune. “I guess this is just going to be a city for wealthy people, that’s where we’re headed,” she said. What? There’s no suggestion people aren’t speeding…pretzel logic required to get to “just…wealthy people” statement? My experience – the more expensive the car – the more traffic laws […]
search is not a premium feature
In spite of what feedly says – search is NOT a premium item. Keeping old reader in back pocket if this gets too annoying.
Opt out follies
An observation on an ongoing silliness among software vendors. A lot of the JAVA NSA roots revolve around “opt out” defaults. Another quarter heard from – adobe flash. Bloat by default
Um. Yeah.
She observes well. But in other ways, Hillary is not such a natural successor. The Clintons are ends-justify-the-means types with flexible boundaries about right and wrong, while the Obama mystique is the opposite. His White House runs on the idea that if you are virtuous and true and honorable, people will ultimately come to you. […]
Off Topic – fun article via slate.com
I enjoyed this: The fast-food titan has joined forces with supermarket superpower Barilla to offer up a line of pasta dishes. The first creation on tap? Penne with tuna, tomatoes, olives, and capers.
Video Testing – vimeo
VID 20121202 124916 from Bob Finley on Vimeo. Uploading to vimeo (free) – takes a bit longer than youtube. Testing as alternate to youtube & others. AS OF 08 aug 2013 10 am – neither embed (using vimeo html) or wordpress video pluging is resulting in a video – still image only. using the […]
In case you forgot – sbs 2003 rip – same dates as xp…
2nd recent posting seen on upcoming retirement of sbs. From the SBS Diva: Here’s what I said in response….. She knows a lot.
More video testing – travelogue
A few more android uploads to youtube. Navy Pier Chicago August 2013 There’s a gull up there – “Top of the world…” Windy four masted diesel before sail.