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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.

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.

Still to do:

1. Fix up XML to be more legible
2. See about making this site a little less grey
3. Find broken links
4. Add a random image from the gallery here
5. Add all the pictures back to the gallery

I'll get there. Hopefully soon.

<?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.

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.

• I got a mac mini
• My wife is pregnant, due in January
• I'm in a great program with San Francisco Zen Center called Establishing the Path of Practice
• I got my wife's hand-me-down ipod video and it's much better for audio books than the ipod shuffle.
• There's still a lot of work to do on this blog, I guess, most notably odd characters in places, but it's mostly working

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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My needs are a little different from a typical MP3 player user. I mostly use it to listen to audio books while I ride the train back and forth to work. So, shuffle mode is out. Luckily you can use the Shuffle in non-shuffle mode.

We set a goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009 — and met that goal three years ahead of schedule.

Not really something to celebrate, IMO, since. when he became President, there was a surplus.

We’re now in the 41st month of uninterrupted job growth, a recovery that has created 7.2 million new jobs, so far.

A bit misleading, really, since it doesn't count the number of jobs lost before the recovery. If you factor that in, 3.7 million jobs have been created since Bush took office.

Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid are commitments of conscience, and so it is our duty to keep them permanently sound. Yet we’re failing in that duty.

Total agreement with this point. I hope he finally proposes a real solution. He hasn't yet.

Five years ago, we rose above partisan differences to pass the No Child Left Behind Act preserving local control, raising standards and holding schools accountable for results. And because we acted, students are performing better in reading and math, and minority students are closing the achievement gap.

No Child Left Behind went into effect in 2002, and the last report on it is from 2005. Fourth-grade reading scores haven't improved since the Bush program, and eighth-grade scores are actually down. In math, scores are up among fourth-graders and have increased slightly less among eighth-graders. The achievement gap results are mixed, too.

A future of hope and opportunity requires that all our citizens have affordable and available health care.

I agree, but then he proposed solving the problem by giving a tax cut to some people. Huh? Why not give them health care? You know, do something to solve the problem.

...we cannot fully secure the border unless we take pressure off the border, and that requires a temporary worker program. We should establish a legal and orderly path for foreign workers to enter our country to work on a temporary basis.

I totally agree (take that people that think I'm a Bush hater - when he's got a good idea, I give him credit for it).

Maybe more later.