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You get what you pay for in government, same as with almost everything else. Here in Florida the Republican-dominated  state government is cutting services and generally doing what it can to make the quality of life here a little worse each year. Continue reading →

(sing)
This is the dawning of the age of anxiety
Age of anxiety
Anxiety
Anxiety!

When Republicans join the Tea Party
And Obama aligns with Clinton
Then fear will guide the diplomats
And despair… will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the age of anxiety
Age of anxiety
Anxiety
Anxiety!

Calumny and misunderstandings
Disgust at politicians abounding
Too many falsehoods and derisions
Sour living nightmare visions
Disgusting drug war revelation
And the mind in awful depression
Anxiety
Anxiety!

This is the dawning of the age of anxiety
Age of anxiety
Anxiety
Anxiety!

I often quote Foote Partners research, whose most recent report says that in December, 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that only 5500 jobs were created in the Management and Technical Consulting Services and Computer Systems Design and Related Services categories, down from 9600 in November and “significantly less than the average 10,592 monthly new job growth in these two segments over the past twelve months.” But don’t despair. There’s plenty of sunlight peeking through those clouds of gloom. Read the rest…

Not in Florida, of course. But in more civilized parts of the world HSR is a big deal:

Interest in high-speed rail(HSR) is growing around the world and the number of countries running these trains is expected to nearly double over the next few years, according to new research by the Worldwatch Institute for Vital Signs Online. By 2014, high-speed trains will be operating in nearly 24 countries, including China, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the United States, up from only 14 countries today. The increase in HSR is due largely to its reliability and ability to cover vast geographic distances in a short time, to investments aimed at connecting once-isolated regions, and to the diminishing appeal of air travel, which is becoming more cumbersome because of security concerns.
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This is a press release I received. It’s for a non-profit worthy cause, so I’m running  it verbatim:

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (Nov. 2) — The central Gulf Coast of Florida will be rocking this Saturday at the inaugural Music Fest for ALS. This important fundraiser, organized by Winning the Fight, an all-volunteer organization, will feature homegrown national recording artist Damon Fowler and a host of others at Town Square Plaza Park in Pinellas Park, with the profits raised committed to the fight against ALS, or as it’s more commonly known, Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

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Herman’s Song (sung to the tune of ”You’re So Vain“)

You walked into the Republican Party
Like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye in the mirror
As you watched yourself gavotte
And all the voters dreamed that
they’d be your partner
They’d be your partner, and Continue reading →

The GOP/TP talks about rich people creating jobs, and how we must coddle them so they hire more people. They were coddled plenty by Bush and his Congressional allies, but it seemed like every time the rich people’s tax rate was lowered, unemployment went up. So that didn’t work. Rich people in this country no longer want to build it up, but are intent on looting it until there is nothing left but homeless camps and burned-out buildings.

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All good things are created by the private sector. It was the private sector that defeated Japan and Germany in WWII, but the liberals and their silly books of “facts” won’t tell you that any more than they’ll tell you private enterprise made the Louisiana Purchase, fought the Civil War against those dastardly liberals who wanted the slaves running free instead of being taken care of by their kindly masters, and so on.  Continue reading →

One of the biggest problems with tablet computers is fingermarks on their screens. I know, you’re supposed to use a stylus. But according to a recent survey, 100% of all touch-screen users have touched their screens with their fingers. (This survey’s accuracy is valid to within +/- 0.01%.)

But there is a solution:
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Android phones may have overtaken Apple’s iPhones in the marketplace. Then again, maybe they haven’t. And to you, as a developer, what may matter most is which smart phone OS is going to be the biggest player a year or two from now, and fellow IT Knowledge Exchange writer Ron Miller (no relation) thinks Google may have hurt future Android adoption badly by buying Motorola’s mobile phone unit. Still, it’s probably prudent to put at least as much effort into Android app development as into developing iOS apps. Read the Rest.