David’s Ramblings

How in the world can a journalist write a story like this, especially one that works for CNN?
Here’s a link to the story… it may get ’silently corrected’ so I’ve copied it below for your enjoyment…
“(CNN) — A man climbed to the top of a nearly 60-story skyscraper in downtown San Francisco, California, on […]

At the outset let me say I am a software developer, and have been for over 30 years. So I’ve done my share of stupid things.
But it seems that over the years that software has become dumber and more cluttered. One thing in particular that most programmers just don’t get is input focus.
…you […]

Wow amazing upbeat Motown sounding soul R&B all packed into one… can’t wait to buy the album…

I’ve inserted an image which is a link to Youtube since Google has broken the old way of embedding… ‘do no evil’ yeah greed gets in the way of good intentions always…

My regular FM radio station bit the dust a couple of months ago and I’ve been forced to migrate the dial looking for another station that isn’t too irritating. Funny how that’s the criteria, find one that sucks the least… you know there is something unsustainable and rotten when that is the criteria used to […]

I know I want a nice little netbook like the Yoga and an E-reader like the Skiff. The money is ready to jump out of my pocket.
But the brakes come on every time I read about this hot new gadget it is accompanied by some text like this… “the Skiff is optimized for newspaper and […]

Father Charles Coughlin denounces FRD’s New Deal… sounds just like the Repugnicans on FOX spewing disinformation and invoking the specter of Socialism, Communism and outrageous taxation…
Give it a listen, the big money business folks were wrong then and again now…
Father Charles Coughlin denounces FRD’s New Deal

A great new series of commercials from Air New Zealand touting that their airfares and service are all open and above board. No secret charges, destinations, taxes, seat charges baggage fees or other sneak fares… Unlike our US airlines who all seem to be run by sneaky MBAs bent on monetizing every last bit possible […]

I’m sure you’ve been asked this while dining out… I find it insulting and highly presumptive its utterance ruins what may have been a great dining experience. I just cannot fathom that a waiter or waitress could not know that it sounds terribly rude.
I’ve often wondered if the bad habit just creeps in or it […]

I have a some mixed feelings about tasers…
They can cause death, so while most departments treat them as non-lethal force and many even go so far as to use them as a general purpose punishment for not immediately obeying every order. I think their use is too widespread and not adequately covered by department policies. […]

A resounding yes, because most would score low I think…
U.S. Rep. Steve Austria, Ohio Congressman said about the economic stimulus package; “When Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression,” Austria said. “He tried to borrow and spend, he tried to use the Keynesian approach, and our country ended up in a […]

It’s nice to have good friends that you can count on… here’s to summer get togethers…

It’s not a big secret that my interest in science was ignited by my love of making stinks and bangs as a youngster. I could usually be found concocting and detonating all sorts of little experiments. Things that would unfortunately in today’s paranoiac zero tolerance* world be immediately classed as terroristic… shame.
Anyway the ultimate […]

I wrote about watching the full moon on the ranch page… but I have to rave about this movie of the same name; La Misma Luna is a wonderful movie… If you have a chance see it. A refreshing change from the xenophobic anti immigrant crap on the nightly news and in the political ads.
La […]