I saw this billboard while walking around Berkeley last night. I hate to suggest that vandalism is ever a good thing, but I respect the effort that went into it, and, to some extent, I agree with the sentiment.
Click on the image to see a larger version. I took this with my iPhone at a little after 10pm, so, the quality is pretty poor, but the broad themes come across okay.
I read today about a company called Stranded Wind that is creating wind powered ammonia fuel plants in Iowa. It's a brilliant idea.
You can read more about how they made it happen at Jerome a Paris is almost entirely to blame.
Nice tidbit - they use salesforce, and, to quote them
...later today when new people sign up they'll automatically get routed to our SalesForce.com customer relations management system. We love this tool - rock solid, web accessible, open API so we can integrate our news site to it, and we've filled it up with farmers, cooperative employees, bankers, college instructors, state and federal politicians, and we're using it to make our interaction with them coherent and focused as we march towards our goal(s).
I love working for a company that people love to use, and, I love, in my own small way, helping them make a difference.
Okay, so moving from Wordpress to Movable Type, Gallery Emedded in Wordpress to Gallery standalone, and one host to another took a while, but things should be working okay now.
Still to do:
I'll get there. Hopefully soon.
Our baby was due on the 15th of January, but she came a bit early, at 3am on the 12th. Betsy, my wife, was remarkable going through a 12 hour labor, having the baby at home. See new album in the gallery for baby pictures.
I needed to put a time-stamp in a file I was generating with XSLT and Saxon. Saxon supports parts of EXSLT, and one of the parts supported is date:date-time. It's kind of challenging to figure out exactly how to make it work, though, at least it was for me. In hopes that I'll save someone else some work, here's how to add a time-stamp using Saxon 6.5.5.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl :stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon"
xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times"
xmlns:func="http://exslt.org/functions"
extension-element-prefixes="saxon exsl date func">
<xsl:template match="/">
Date-time: <xsl :value-of select="date:date-time()"/>
Date-year: <xsl :value-of select="date:year()"/>
Date-month-in-year: <xsl :value-of select="date:month-in-year()"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl>
I hope that helps someone.
I downloaded a track from the iTunesU UC Berkeley Politics and Policy area. It's a recording of Helen Caldicott titled "The New Nuclear Danger".
While I don't agree with everything she said, or the way she said it (for example, while I am no Ronald Reagan fan, does it do any good to describe his as being a capable chicken farmer, but not capable of being president?), if you listen to her lecture and don't feel like our world is a scary place, and we're letting people like the current administration make things worse by our inaction, then you are completely close minded.
I found a YouTube clip of the lecture. I haven't watched it, but since I don't know how to link to an iTunes clip, I'll use that link instead.
Heck, I'll even try to embed it - it's split into 4 parts.
In the iTunes store, you can find a ton of university lectures by looking at iTunesU. If you haven't looked at it, you need to. There are a wide range of lectures and interviews, and they are all free.
Okay, it's been a long time since I've kept up, so here's a quick laundry list of things that I think are new since I was last posting regularly.
Let's face it, POP sucks. That's why I'm glad Google finally decided to add IMAP to it's free email service. But I have one question - why, two days after the announcement, don't I have the option to enable it yet?
Adobe announced last week that they were going to "transition all their entire suite to web-based applications." Cool, but so what?
Gasp! Yes, I work for salesforce.com and I'm asking "Who cares about online apps?". Let me explain to you what I mean, though.
One of the great things about Salesforce is that you work in what we call an organization, sharing data with everyone else in your group or company. You, your bosses, and subordinates, depending on your structure and you place in that structure, can share, report, and forecast on that information. That's really compelling.
What similar case would compel me to use a single-user app, like Photoshop, on the web?
The only one I can think of is if I'm using a computer other than the one I normally work on, either a home computer or a computer in a lab or cafe or the like. Interesting, but how often is that really an issue for me? For the standard user?
I'm not trying to say I'm against companies doing this kind of stuff, but I'm not sure I see a lot of benefit. If you see it, please share.
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