I’ll see if I can find the PBS (?) documentary where they talked to the twitter guy. Billion dollar valuation? Really? What I got out of the documentary – concept for twitter came from his hobby (?) of monitoring emergency services communication – police, fire, ambulance… How often & how many of us truly have […]
Via nytimes.com today. The limit on out-of-pocket costs, including deductibles and co-payments, was not supposed to exceed $6,350 for an individual and $12,700 for a family. But under a little-noticed ruling, federal officials have granted a one-year grace period to some insurers, allowing them to set higher limits, or no limit at all on some […]
The settlement in a Facebook privacy case allots nothing to the plaintiffs and about $2.3 million to their lawyers. From nytimes.com today.
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 […]
In spite of what feedly says – search is NOT a premium item. Keeping old reader in back pocket if this gets too annoying.
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
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. […]
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.
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 […]
2nd recent posting seen on upcoming retirement of sbs. From the SBS Diva: Here’s what I said in response….. She knows a lot.