Matt Taibbi has written some excellent stuff. My favorite is his article, “The Great American Bubble Machine.” This article summarizes why Americans are angry and expressing it via protests.
Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone.
Hooray for Google+! I just noticed the option to enable Google+ in my apps domain dashboard. Now I can play with it and set up my social network all over again. :)
I have just implemented a whitelist on my phone system. Those of you who are in my address book should notice no change, however those of you who are not will have to step through a hoop to get the call connected. I will say no more than that, but it’s a relatively painless one-time process in order to add another layer of convenience and privacy to my phone system.
Why is Whitelisting Absent from Telephones? :: TechMiso.
…People who are great at something are not so much convinced of their own greatness as mystified at why everyone else seems so incompetent.
via Great Hackers.
It seems obvious, doesn’t it? You keep a ledger of your account transactions, then you reconcile them with the bank’s statement at the end of each month. Simple. Everyone learns this in grade school, right? You do it because you were told to do it. You do it because that’s the way it’s always been.
If necessity is the mother of invention, scarcity is the father of ingenuity.