October 31, 2004 – 10:33 pm
Here is a CNET News.com story about Google buying a company that produces web-based software that allows people to view satellite images. It will be interesting to see what becomes of this.
October 31, 2004 – 10:15 pm
Here is an update to the earlier items I posted about Spread Firefox’s Ad Campaign to promote the 1.0 release of Firefox. In ten days, the campaign far exceeded its goal, acquiring $250,000 and more than 10,000 names.
October 31, 2004 – 10:10 pm
Does character matter in Presidential elections? Is a politician’s prior record an adequate indicator of future behavior? Jeff Jacoby addresses these questions in an op-ed in today’s Boston globe.
All thinking people change their minds occasionally. But it is one thing to alter an opinion because of new information or further reflection. It is something very different to do so out of a compulsion to tell each audience what it wants to hear. Kerry has many gifts, but political courage is not among them. As president, could he take a tough stand and stick with it, even if there were a price to pay for doing so? All the evidence to date says no.
George W. Bush is far from perfect. He refuses to admit mistakes. He resists constructive criticism. His humor can be petty or cutting. His administration is secretive and self-righteous — traits that presumably start at the top.
But Bush, unlike Kerry, has the courage of his convictions. He can take a strong stand and not run away from it when the political winds shift. On the big issues, the crucial issues, he is a decisive man who means what he says — and isn’t afraid to say it even when his listeners disagree.
For a nation going to the polls in wartime, no issue matters more than character. Kerry has much to recommend him, and Bush’s flaws are many. But Bush has the character and backbone of a leader. And Kerry doesn’t.
October 31, 2004 – 6:20 pm
CNET News.com compiled a voter scorecard for technology related issues, which reveals that GOP lawmakers were more friendly on high-tech issues. The scorecard covers a period of a decade.
One key finding of the study related to the votes of John Kerry and John Edwards:
Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, scored in the bottom half of senators with a lifetime voting rating of 44 percent–thanks in part to his votes on Internet taxes and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. On average, U.S. senators received a score of 53 percent.
Kerry’s running mate, John Edwards of North Carolina, was in office long enough to vote on only six of the 10 technology-related bills in the Senate that were ranked in the scorecard. Edwards’ rating is 50 percent.
October 31, 2004 – 5:25 pm
MSNBC has made portions of the message from bin Laden available.
October 30, 2004 – 1:05 pm
Roger L. Simon shares his views on the Bin Laden video, Wretchard’s comments on Belmont Club and the idea that the video might not be genuine.
This is a follow up to my earlier post.
UPDATE: Donald Sensing thinks that the video represents the beginning of the end for al Qaeda.
The words on the videotape are not the words of a man who thinks the light at the end of the tunnel is anything but the headlight of the proverbial oncoming train. This was the tape of a man who knows his tail is getting whipped from one end of the world to the other. He’s now out of ideas and even out of new threats. The extensive quotes of the Quran as in tapes of yore seem AWOL now.
October 30, 2004 – 11:15 am
