bodhi tree swaying

I wonder why AT&T has its bullet points in Hebrew? (Is that Hebrew? That’s what it looks like to me.) Will I need a Talmudic scholar to decipher my next bill? Did AT&T confuse itself with Associated Talmud Torahs? Will they soon be bringing out an oyPhone?

• Apparently God does not like his followers to resign for ethical violations, misuse of taypayers’ money, lying, and dereliction of duty, as Mark Sandford attests.
• "Joe" "The Plumber" calls for the assassination of a senator, or at least comes close. He also reveals a stunning grasp of history. I had no idea that Karl Marx predated the American Revolution.
• 3/4 of people in the US who are pushed into bankruptcy by medical problems have insurance. You can read about some health care horror stories in this NYT article.
• My 2-year-old pointed to NYT columnist Maureen Dowd’s picture on my monitor this morning and identified her by name. Maia, you rock! (She’d asked me Maureen’s name at least two months ago).
• Glenn Greenwald discusses the deaths (possibly by torture) of perhaps

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This is an “apropos of nothing” post if I ever wrote one.

If you’re an iPhone or iPod Touch (not iTouch!) owner do you remember web apps? Before Apple opened up its web store the only way short of hacking your machine (which I did) you could get a new application was to use a web-based one. These are probably still flourishing, but I’d imagine that the App Store has probably undercut their use a lot.

But… one I used and still use is Weightdate, which is a simple and free way to record your weight and have it displayed over time as a graph. So that’s my graph above.

It doesn’t quite cover a full year, starting in April 2007 and ending today. It’s an interesting pattern of weight gain and weight loss, especially since I haven’t consciously tried to do anything to alter my …

Given that one of the greatest inconveniences and deficiencies of the iPhone is the lack of any ability to copy and paste, and given that the second major revision of the device’s operating system lacked that ability, I have to wonder if Steve Jobs has no ability to blush. Don’t get me wrong, the iPhone is an astonishing invention. It brings near-ubiquitous access to the web, and does that in a way that is esthetically pleasing and eminently practical. But literally millions of jaws dropped when 2.0 came out and Apple continued to pretend that copy-and-paste was so unimportant that they simply didn’t need to include it. (Currently, the lack of c&p is the second most popular grouse on Please Fix The iPhone). It reminds me of an old British beer commercial where a …