Most often in recent years, Biden has taken the No. 2103, which leaves Wilmington at 7:35 a.m. and pulls into Union Station — barring delays — at 8:55 a.m. Amtrak has become a recurring character in the hearings Biden participates in. “Gentlemen, I apologize,” he told a Judiciary Committee hearing in 1996 when he showed up late. “One of those things that I keep telling my colleagues: If they fully funded Amtrak, I would not be late.”
A good rule of thumb when theorizing about cable TV production is that everything is less expensive and less elaborate than you think it is.
The SXSW 2009 Panel Picker is live. If you attended our Secrets of JavaScript Libraries panel and enjoyed it — or if you missed our Secrets of JavaScript Libraries panel and would move heaven and earth to get a chance to undo the biggest mistake of your life — then give large numbers of stars to More Secrets of JavaScript Libraries, our follow‐up panel. Thanks to John Resig for taking the initiative (once again).
As he passes on the reins of At The Movies, Roger Ebert fondly remembers Gene Siskel (the Waldorf to his Statler). “Did Gene and I hate each other? Yes. Did we love each other? Yes.” The hilarious YouTube videos at the bottom of his post were discussed on MetaFilter a while back; some focus on the vitriol, but I prefer to see the begrudging friendship and mutual respect. By including the videos on the page, Ebert shows he feels the same way.
At a recent Congressional hearing, the head of the airlines’ primary lobbying organization, the Air Transport Association, asserted that pricing is not an effective mechanism for balancing supply and demand for landing slots. When lobbyists argue that basic economic principles do not apply to the industry they represent, a red flag should go up.
The audio from the Secrets of JavaScript Libraries panel has finally been posted on the SXSW web site! John Resig has the slides if you want to follow along.
Steven Frank, co‐author of Transmit: Don’t use FTP. Finally someone says it! FTP is a crazy, insecure non‐protocol, and the fact that it’s still used has more to do with ubiquity than any sort of merit. SFTP piggybacks on all the security of SSH and is much easier to work with. WordPress has a great feature that automatically upgrades your installed plugins — but only on FTP, not SFTP.
Immature testing organizations tend to have about five clean tests for every dirty test. Mature testing organizations tend to have five dirty tests for every clean test. This ratio is not reversed by reducing the clean tests; it’s done by creating 25 times as many dirty tests.
Brand New looks at the Hornets’ logo tweak. Scroll down to the comments section to see their secondary logo — it’s exceedingly clever, co‐opts some New Orleans iconography (the primary logo dates back to the Charlotte era), and kicks the primary logo’s ass. The Saints’ fleur de lis logo represents an era when a team’s logo could be unapologetically abstract. (The bigger news is the slight color change; I’m looking forward to seeing the new uniforms.)
If I were the benevolent dictator, I would make it capital offense for members of the punditocracy to opine ignorantly about the tastes and habits of “regular people,” who apparently have comfort zones no larger than their footprints, and who are unwilling to vote for anyone who doesn’t live their lives exactly like they (are imagined to) do.
