http://q.queso.com/ random ramblings from a geek doctor en-us rss-address@queso.com Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:25:17 -0500 http://q.queso.com/archives/002316 I started watching Sarah Palin's speech a few minutes into it last night, and my take is that she's a supremely confident speaker, and is clearly willing to go for the jugular, but didn't give us any reason to think... http://q.queso.com/archives/002315 If anyone doubts whether Sarah Palin is cut from the same cloth as our current Bush Administration, the fact that she is now refusing to testify in her state ethics inquiry should answer that question. Remember, the day that Palin... http://q.queso.com/archives/002314 I promise I didn't intend for things here to become all-election-the-time; between work ramping up and having the World's Most Awesome Five-Month-Old at home, it seems that all my other free time over the past week and a half has... http://q.queso.com/archives/002313 Last night, in the face of trying to be spun by McCain campaign spokesperson Tucker Bounds, CNN's Campbell Brown did something incredibly out-of-the-ordinary for today's journalists: she called him on his rank bullshit. (This clip is really worth seeing.) After... http://q.queso.com/archives/002312 Wow -- Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter Bristol is pregnant. I honestly cannot imagine how shrill and neverending the GOP attacks would be if it was discovered that a teenage daughter of Barack Obama or Joe Biden was pregnant; televisions would... http://q.queso.com/archives/002311 More fun that comes on the back of McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate: getting to hoist Karl Rove on his own petard. (Will that ever get old, though?) When he was on Face the Nation three... http://q.queso.com/archives/002310 McCain's press release announcing Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate might include one of the most baffling paragraphs I've read in a press release in a long, long time (emphasis added by me): As the head of Alaska's National... http://q.queso.com/archives/002309 I know that for the most part, if you read QDN, I'm the proverbial preacher and you're part of the choir, but I figure I have to point out to those who peeking in the windows that the official Republican... http://q.queso.com/archives/002308 This is, by far, the best photo sequence I've yet seen demonstrating that Michael Phelps did manage to out-touch Milorad Cavic in last night's unbelievable 100 butterfly final. I mean, you get a great sense that Phelps did the unthinkable... http://q.queso.com/archives/002307 So if you're even tangentially exposed to news about the internet (or listen to NPR's All Things Considered!), you might have heard about a major, major weakness that was discovered not too long ago in the security behind the way... http://q.queso.com/archives/002306 According to NBC's own Olympics site, swimming would be starting at 3:30 PM today on the main NBC network; imagine our surprise when we found that Michael Phelps's first qualifying heat was broadcast at 2:56 PM (when NBC's schedule says... http://q.queso.com/archives/002305 This post might be the best example of why I occasionally love reading Yahoo Answers, for pure humor value. The question: How many centimetres is one feet, like if i am 157 cm how many feet i am? And the... http://q.queso.com/archives/002304 This would be an example of the wrong messenger for the message; I'd imagine that if I were a world leader, it'd be pretty hard to take seriously any plea from George Bush asking that my nation stop imprisoning political... http://q.queso.com/archives/002303 A little bit ago, I wrote a piece about how a new start-up, Bit.ly, was ignoring the wishes of web content producers by creating cached copies of pages that are explicitly marked (by those same content producers) with headers directing... http://q.queso.com/archives/002302 The whole techie-bringing-San-Fran-to-its-knees story keeps getting better and better -- it turns out that the passwords that Terry Childs gave to San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom only allowed access to the network from a single hidden computer in the Hall...