Damned if I'm not exhausted tonight. Think I will check my stores' staffing and sales at 9pm and just hit the sack. Have to be up early...

I think maybe I'll just skip working or blogging tonight and maybe play Left 4 Dead for awhile. It's zombie killin' time.

Just wanted to take a brief moment to wish everyone a Happy New Year! One more time 'round the sun. I probably won't be posting much later today (possibly this evening) as I am getting ready to go in to...Continue Reading »

Talk about creepy stuff. This certainly isn't the most disgusting crime I've heard about but it's pretty darned sick.Amy Lynn Camacho-Marchionne and Joseph L. Kramer had been married for about three years. Over time the abuse dished out by...Continue Reading »

It's about time they took the gloves off and released this. H/T to Red Alerts Blog for pointing me to the video. I'm cross-posting this to several sites as well.

I got an email about this from Stop the ACLU yesterday and after having received it I read the related stories and just started getting more and more pissed off. Normally schools have a policy of making kids change their...Continue Reading »

Lance Cpl. Ryan T. McCaughn19 years old from Manchester, New Hampshire1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary ForceNovember 7, 2006"I just can't believe it," said Nicole Cote, mother of L/Cpl. McCoughn. "It's not supposed to happen...Continue Reading »

There have been several developments in the search for Caylee Anthony today, not the least of which is the fact that sources close to the investigation are saying that significant amounts of Chloroform were found in the car that Casey Anthony was using and which has tested positive for Caylee Anthony's dead body. More info at http://tinyurl.com/56w8ud

Not that it ever really looked like anything different but the Orange County Sheriff's department has confirmed that air samples taken from Casey Anthony's car show that a decomposing body was inside the trunk. They have offered Anthony a partial...Continue Reading »

I've stepped back a bit the last couple of days and haven't really written much about Caylee Anthony or her mother Casey, who is now out on bail. There hasn't been a single useful bit of news to come out...Continue Reading »

State Prosecutors have filed formal charges against Casey Anthony in the disappearance of her two-year-old daughter. More updates to follow at Shadowscope

I have been writing a bit about the Caylee Anthony case and am now doing daily updates at http://www.shadowscope.com/archives/2008/07/caylee_anthony_may_have_been_killed.php

Please come over an join in the discussion if you have an opinion on the case. There are also pertinent links and phone numbers if you have information on the case.

CNN Technology has a pretty thorough iPhone 3G review online that you need to check out if you are considering getting an iPhone. They have tested it pretty well and I think it's a fair review.

I was very interested initially in getting an iPhone 3G but unfortunately the only network available to me where I live and work is EDGE.

Not only that but the lack of good GPS features, lack of Bluetooth, crappy camera, etc...pretty much were a deal breaker. I think I will just stick with my Blackberry and wait for the touchscreen version to come out which should be available through Verizon later this year.

Have you gotten the new iPhone or are you considering it? Do you think it lives up to all of the hype? I love the touchscreen as well as the browser.

Victory is still possible in the fight against warrantless spying and immunity for the telecom companies that collaborated in previous illegal spying. Just this morning the Politico reports that . . .


Senate leaders may split the warrantless spying and immunity provisions into two separate bills, and hold two separate votes.


This is a sign of significant divisions in the Senate that we may yet be able to exploit to defeat the Senate version of HR 6304.


The divisions are deep enough that there still isn't a Senate version of the House bill, or a bill number. And there are still multiple ways we could win this fight.


One strategy is to find a Senator willing to filibuster, and thereby block a vote.


MSNBC's Keith Olbermann reported last night that there's pressure on Presidential candidate and Senator Barak Obama to filibuster -- to show he can lead his party and stand up to the Republicans. Senators Chris Dodd and Russ Feingold have stated strong opposition to this bill and are also strong potential candidates to filibuster.


Toward this end we've changed the message to the Senate on our old campaign against the "Protect America Act", to read as follows . . .


"Please do everything you can to defeat the Senate version of HR 6304, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. Please use your power to filibuster."


Please send this message now, with your personalizing comments added.


You can use your personal comments to point out that HR 6304 violates the 4th Amendment, and that your Senators swore an oath to defend the Constitution.


Many Senators are opposed to this bill. If we can encourage just one to filibuster then we'll only need 41 votes to defeat the bill. We believe the three Senators we've listed in this message are the best candidates to do so. But every Senator needs to be contacted.


The possibility of victory by filibuster, combined with the urgency of this situation, means that once again, we encourage you to call your Senators. Once you're logged-in to send your message, you'll see their office phone number. Please call today.


Remember, we were in a similar position with this issue back in Fall 2006, and again in February this year -- defeat seemed certain -- but we ended up pulling out a victory. Now, in the space of just 24 hours, we've gone from expecting an immediate vote to having the Senate leadership contemplate splitting the bill into two parts.


Victory is still possible, and the filibuster is a powerful weapon we could use to achieve that victory. Ask, and you may receive.


Tell your Senators to filibuster. Give the pro-Constitution forces courage, and make the anti-Constitution Senators nervous.


Send a message!


Then call.


Also, please also help us make budget this month. There are only 6 days left, and we need just $1,509 to earn a $3,600 matching pledge AND make budget. We have no one else to ask but you. You can contribute here.

I am constantly amazed at how things on the Internet are so intertwined, and becoming more so each day. What can I say, I'm easily impressed. So many of the social networking services are becoming intertwined using OpenID and other APIs so now I can post from Facebook (as I am now) and have it update several sites at once, as well as Twitter.

FireEagle, Twitter, Facebook and boatloads of other stuff all just sort of comes together and although it may not actually be useful, it's certainly entertaining.

Fire Eagle tells you where I am and in turn tells my blog, I can update Fire Eagle from several different sources. The one I seem to be using mostly is Twitter, which also posts updates to my blog as well as MySpace, Facebook and anyone else that strangely enough seems to be following me. There are some pretty cool GPS apps that also work with Fire Eagle but unfortunately they are crap on my Blackberry.

Even ICQ and AIM updates my blog. I have been using this pretty cool plugin for MT called Action Streams. It does a very good job at updating from my Digg, Twitter and Flickr accounts. The rest are sort of hit and miss but they seem to be improving.

I still haven't decided if all of this really cool integration and 'following' is a good thing or not. Living in the public eye is a bit over rated. The good thing is that I can always turn the updates off. At least for now...

I'm testing out another nifty (I don't believe I actually used that work in a sentence) interface to blogging. SixApart has designed a new Facebook app called BlogIt wich connects to several different services including Twitter, Vox, Livejournal, Typeade, Blogger and of course Movabletype blogs.

As I write this blog post on Facebook it updates my status there and should post to the interfaces I listed as well if I have an account there (I do on most of them).

If the MySpace team would come out with some type of non-crappy api interface to actually access their stuff like Facebook has, authora might be able to make use of that as well.

Anyhow, BlogIt adds one more cool social networking app into the blog arena.

hmmm...I can use Facebook from my Blackberry too, wonder if I can get to BlogIt from there. I'll have to check it out :)

A troop of Boy Scouts in western North Carolina that were supposed to come home yesterday had still not returned this morning. CNN is now reporting that they have been located....Continue Reading »

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's scheduled appearance at Columbia University is fueling a debate about whether or not the academic institution should grant the contreversial leader to express his opinions. In an interview on TV this morning he is claiming that...Continue Reading »

It took me a few minutes to find something suitable for this weeks PhotoHunt Saturday. I did manage to come up with something though and although I normally schedule these for just after midnight on Saturday morning, I don't have...Continue Reading »