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Tuesday, 14 October 2008

When they criticize P.O.O.T.U.S

I just invented a new acronym: President Obama Of The United States.

Knock wood.

Okay it really looks like he's going to win, forgive me for saying that, I know it's not a good idea, and I don't really believe it but just in case...

I saw this picture on the wall in a scene in last night's 60 Minutes. Leslie Stahl is interviewing Ray Odierno, the new US commander in Iraq. He was showing off some new technique of hunting down the bad guys with drones, very impressive, except I just watched Generation Kill on HBO and I can't help but wondering if it's a fraud and a hoax. Anyway. On the wall is this portrait of President Bush superimposed on the American flag with the Statue of Liberty in the background.

Whuh?

That's pretty outrageously out there.

So when my guy Barack, POOTUS, is in the White House and the wingnuts are giving him shit about how he seems to be enjoying the trappings of the presidency, I'm going to ask them to have a look at this picture and see if Dubya wasn't just a teeeeeny bit over the top here.

I've followed Dave Winer forever; he was the first blogger. Originally I got email collections of his thoughts from my brother (in those days internet connections were only available in universities in Oz, and he was a computing/applied maths geek), and eventually Dave developed a way to broadcast his thoughts. Dave is my age and has made his millions several times. I'm still working on my first few dollars. Dave's political stance is definitely not mine, but it is always well argued and I have to consider it.
He developed a product called Frontier which used the scripting capabilities built into the MacOS, and later in Windows. (Correct me please). The software for broadcasting (as he thought of it then; podcasting was a later and Apple biased term), and this he called Radio. It's now known as Radio Userland, and is the platform on which I produce this nonsense.
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