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A bit inspiring, if depressing at the low standards, a nice column on Obama and foreign policy:

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It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Democrats’ nomination of Obama as their candidate for president has done more to improve America’s image abroad — an image dented by the Iraq war, President Bush’s invocation of a post-9/11 “crusade,” Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay and the xenophobic opposition to Dubai Ports World managing U.S. harbors — than the entire Bush public diplomacy effort for seven years.</blockquote

David Ortiz became a card-carrying US citizen yesterday.

Of course he made sure to look sharp for the event

Congrats, big guy! Nice to have you counted among us.

Funny though

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The above could apply to many people, certainly, but in this case I’m labeling Roger Clemens and David Stern.  If this were on Slashdot, I would file the post in the “people in glass houses… category” or something like that.

Basically, if you’re going to file a libel-like suit, you’d better be damn sure that you the other guy doesn’t have anything on you.  In the case of the Roid-ket, he had no business claiming “defamation of character” when he’d already had multiple affairs, possibly one with a 15-year-old, and another with John Daly’s ex-wife.

Now it comes out from the NBA ref who got caught betting on/fixing games that there were other refs involved, and that multiple playoff games were affected.  Why did he disclose the info now, in the middle of the NBA finals?  Because Stern just filed a suit against Donaghy for $1mil… as if he didn’t have anything to lose.  Not only is Stern a bully and an asshole, but he’s also a dummy.

Chris may not post things on his own, but he does come up with some blogworthy stuff occasionally.

Michael made a post a while ago about the Eye-Fi memory card that can both store pictures in your camera and automatically send them to you. It turns out that they might not be such a bad idea, especially if you tend to lose things.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0534545220080606

Basically, the woman had one of the cards in her camera and left the camera in a restaurant full of pictures of her baby eating its first food and other important pictures. The people who ended up taking the camera walked by an open wifi access point and all the pictures got emailed to the camera owner… along with pictures of the kids who took the camera.

(I’ll try not to get on my high horse about the fact that doing this basically requires that everyone be using unsecured wifi base stations named “linksys”…)

After 15 months I finally finished knitting my first sweater…just in time for summer.