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Environmentalists responsible for global warming

Scott — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:50:01 +0000

Ok. This stuff is really making my head hurt. Now some folks are saying that all the work to help replenish the ozone layer is contributing to “global warming”. OZONE HOLE’S HEALING MIGHT SWELL WARMING By Sindya N. Bhanoo The New York Times That the hole in the Earth’s ozone layer is slowly mending is considered a big victory for enviro [...]

Carelessnes or strategic incompetence?

Scott — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:16:30 +0000

Please note, that as of this evening, a CAPTCHA script has been added too the page. I should have grabbed a screen shot earlier before they installed it. It would appear that the Democrats have a security flaw in their website. The design person(s) were either careless and didn’t include any security system in the page or they planned [...]

The PELOSI GTxi/SS RT Sport Edition MotorCar

Scott — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:39:02 +0000

Created by Congressional Motor Company, with design features by Barney Frank and Ted Kennedy. I guess we’ll all be driving one of these soon. [...]

Twitter and the Main Stream Media – Twitter is dead

Scott — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:00:19 +0000

First off, Main Stream Media is fast becoming…. well NOT. But that’s a different post. I was contacted 2 or 3 weeks ago by a writer for Portfolio Magazine to discuss what the MSM could do to save it self. Primarily print media. It’s a tough question, but I gave it my best shot. The writer told me she had a [...]

My new toy…

Scott — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:15:12 +0000

View Full Album My wonderful wife bought me this over the weekend. I have been wanting a new digital SLR for some time. I have been using Nikon products for 30 years but wanted to change because of the expense. I looked at Canon and Pentax. I chose Pentax because of the availability of lenses, the fact that the image stabilization is in t [...]

Google Transit? Uh… no thanks!

Scott — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:30:30 +0000

I was reading in the Virginian-Pilot this morning about Google Transit. Public transit systems across Virginia are using a new Internet tool to make it easier for bus riders to plan their trips. The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation initiated the use of Google Transit, which Charlottesville Transit Service officials announced T [...]

Twitter spam? What do you think?

Scott — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:14:26 +0000

I have been busy most of the day with grocery shopping and buying light fixtures and stuff at Lowe’s. Not much time to sit on the computer and socially network. When I did jump on a few minutes ago I saw this tweet from @bulletblocker: Our bulletproof backpacks were made for school safety but a lot of people are buying for protection at wo [...]

Law Enforcement Blogs – BlogNetNews.com

Scott — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:06:00 +0000

BlogNetNews.com now has a Law Enforcement section! If you have a blog that is devoted to law enforcement topics, please contact me and send me the URL of the blog, a brief description of what you write about and the feed URL and we’ll get you listed. Check out the new section at http://blognetnews.com/lawenforcement &# [...]

CUIL is still a dismal failure

Scott — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:24:30 +0000

Back in July, CUIL debuted and absolutely blew up. It was totally worthless as a search engine. There were several other articles written across the Internets about the same thing. I haven’t really thought much about it until this morning. So I decided to do a search on CUIL for something that has been all over the news and blogs locally her [...]

“Cloud Computing” is closer to full reality… the next step upgrade from Web 2.0

Scott — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:26:04 +0000

Image via Wikipedia I am a huge fan of RIAs, Rich Internet Applications. I use Zoho, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Apps, Acrobat and others on a frequent basis. My primary email is still a good old pop3 account off of my server but by and large the majority of my email is handled with a web client. Either Gmail, Live Mail [...]

VA House of Delegates Republican Caucus website launched

Scott — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:32:54 +0000

VA House of Delegates Republican Caucus has been launched. And based on the look and feel, seems like Brian Gardner’s Revolution Two themes are at it again! [...]

Brian Gardner has been busy! Revolution2 redesign is live, so is StudioPress

Scott — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:33:37 +0000

Before I go to far into this, I wanted to mention that Brian Gardner is offering a free Revolution Two theme, plus support to anyone who donates to his Breast Cancer Walk initiative. See his “tweet” here. (Follow Brian at @bgardner) The walk is scheduled for August 7th, 2009 in Chicago. Support Brian’s walk, Breast Cancer Researc [...]

BlogNetNews.com Hampton Roads – Reminder

Scott — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:01:20 +0000

It’s that time again! Just a quick reminder that if you have, or know of a blog in Hampton Roads that is NOT listed on BNN/HR to please drop a note to me at HREditor@blognetnews.com and we’ll get you listed. The criteria for the blogs listed is fairly simple. based somewhere in Hampton Roads must have existed for more than a week or s [...]

Prism 0.9 Release and is now a Firefox Extension

Scott — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:57:43 +0000

Old news but still appropriate. Read on for more information on Prism. For those of us who wisely use Firefox as a browser, Prism 0.9 has been released as an extension for Firefox. This basically means you can create a "stand-alone" looking application from just about any RIA (Rich Internet Application) like Gmail, Go [...]

The Mind of Tefft and The Write Side of My Brain got new shirts!

Scott — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:58:03 +0000

After all the singing I did about magazine style formats, maybe even encouraging two Michaels (Fletcher and Tefft) to change their blogs over, I change back to a blog format. But they went with two different magazine themes, Tefft with Proximity by Nathan Rice and Fletcher with Zinmag-Futura by ZinMag. Both blogs look OUTSTANDING and these guys hav [...]

Phishing on Twitter

Scott — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:45:20 +0000

Be very careful on Twitter! Like Facebook had a few weeks ago, there is a fishing scam going on on Twitter. I just received two direct messages from folks that said my “photo” or “blog post” had been located on another site. Another Twitter user followed the link to a site that produced this page. See his article here. [...]

Mayor, Governor, Blogger…

Scott — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:42:15 +0000

Former Virginia Governor, and former Mayor of Richmond, L. Douglas Wilder has started a blog. Wilder Visions is now online and joining the ranks of the Virginia Blogosphere. I will continue to live in the City I love, and will maintain an active voice. To that end, I will be starting a new blog called www.WilderVisions.com that will cover a variet [...]

New theme… again

Scott — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:11:28 +0000

After several months of working with a magazine theme, I have decided to go back to a standard blog theme. There were several reasons most of which centered around the work needed to put a blog post up. For as little readership as I have on this blog, it just wasn’t worth all the trouble. For a blog like Bearing Drift, who receive massive a [...]

Are the Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press next to end home delivery?

Scott — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:54:26 +0000

Wow! This is incredible! It make you wonder if all local newspapers are going to this! (CNN) — The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News will become the first major metropolitan newspapers in the U.S. to end daily home delivery, the papers announced Tuesday. Detroit newspapers to end daily home delivery – CNN.com [...]

Google does it again… SMS From Gmail

Scott — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:53:37 +0000

I had heard this was coming. And in fact, I’ve been playing with it since last Thursday. Trying to break it. It’s pretty solid. You can now SMS TEXT MESSAGE right from your Gmail Account page. Just like chatting. Now you can keep the conversations going with a new Labs feature that lets you send SMS text messages right from Gmail. [...]

Branding your name or your blog on Twitter

Scott — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:24:40 +0000

When I first joined Twitter about a year ago, it was to interact of course and to promote my blog. I grabbed every plugin I could find for WordPress and Twitter. Alex King’s Twitter Tools was used primarily to post a “tweet” everytime I posted an article on my blog. I’ve now switched to @soldoutactivist ’s PingPressF [...]

Google Watchers?

Scott — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:24:16 +0000

A watchdog group watching the Google Empire to hold them accountable for “Being Evil” in spite of their 10 Guiding Principles. An aside: What exactly is a google: Actually, its a googol, the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000 [...]

Twitter turns down $500,000,000 offer…

Scott — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:24:31 +0000

Is this a good idea or bad? Should Twitter have sold off to Facebook? This story broke this morning from Kara Swisher at BoomTown. Her title is priceless: When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled Kara went on to discuss the pros and cons of the takeover. First offer vice wait for something better. I wonder about Twitter& [...]

The US Air Force is at it again…

Scott — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:38:52 +0000

THIS IN NO WAY IS MEANT TO BELITTLE ANY OF OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN SERVING OUR COUNTRY. But some of the “management” team behind them are just silly. Apparently the Air Farce Force has restricted the use of any removeable media from their network computers. Remember back in March (on a previous version of my blog that is long gone) I r [...]

What is a blog? When did “simple” leave the house?

Scott — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:05:42 +0000

I have been toying with this thought of an article for a few weeks now. What is a blog? Wikipedia describes it like this: A blog (a contraction of the term “Web log”) is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are co [...]