what is UP with pinnacle systems?

they don't seem to support mac at all, much less for the digital video creator 80 i paid $100 for.

it's hard to imagine why someone who lends themselves to being at the pinnacle of digital video (no pun intended), is sorely lacking support for the macintosh.

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Home+Video/Dazzle/Digital+Video+Creator+150+Support/Download+Area/Drivers+-+Updates/Pinnacle+USB+Hardware+Installer+for+Studio+8+and+Studio+8+QuickStart.htm?mode=documents

Letter Of The Day

Letter-writer Tom Quiner says, "Contrary to the multitude of letters about the greedy rich, it is the superproducers who pay our nation's bills far beyond their numbers. We owe them our thanks."

Oh, quit playing that violin already.

According to the IRS, the top 1 percent had incomes of at least $295,000 per year, while those of us in the bottom 50 percent had incomes that did not exceed $30,000 per year to spend on rent, food, transportation, etc.

Considering the rich are getting President Bush's tax-cut windfall while funding for student loans and public assistance is being slashed and kids from "the bottom half" are fighting an ill-planned pre-emptive war, the last thing the superproducers deserve is our thanks.

—Michael Nottingham, Coralville.

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a good example of the folx i live around

can be found HERE

it's the VOTING MACHINES stupid!

A top election official and computer experts say computer hackers could easily change election results, after they found numerous flaws with a state-approved voting-machine in Tallahassee.

--source

from today's papers

The NYT says inside that Democrat and Republican senators have agreed on a measure that would require the White House to give Congress regular, classified updates about the U.S.'s secret prisons abroad. The House hasn't considered similar legislation, so, of course, nothing might come of this.

nothing might come of the fact that the administration has been denying the very existence of secret prisons and yet they're gboing to be giving regular updates on them? how exactly does that work?

testing out the new mac GUI for blogger

and i think i may just be at that point where i can tell zoundry to go stuff it. they were actually getting worse, not better imho. anyway, um, this is the new mac GUI, etco. i guess you can find it anywhere. but i'll try and get a link in there.

and even the quote is a fine piece of work. WOW. i'm in heaven.

cbsnew ran a segment on pensions

and was glad to hear one of the delta pilots that is suing delta over it, that it was 'grand theft in the first degree' and somehow it didn't take much for me to believe him.

wouldn't you?

that's the way i like it, uh huh, uh huh.
that's the way i like it, alright.

Asked if they would "definitely" or "probably" vote for the Democrat or the Republican in next year's fall congressional election, 48% said the Democrat would get their support, compared to 40% who said they would vote for the Republican. While 3% said they plan on supporting a third-party candidate, 9% said they were unsure.

--source

WARNING: more incompetence ahead

from today's papers

USAT takes a brief look at the companies that have been assigned the $300 million project. One of them is named the now-often-cited Lincoln Group, which started two years ago and had "no experience in public relations, advertising or other media work." One of the group's founders is a 30-year-old guy who's been active in the Republican Party. Meanwhile, during the bidding process, one of the companies asked the Pentagon if the military will "protect them from U.S. and foreign media inquiries."

tuesday, december 13th.... sure it's not friday?

today's jus been one thing after another.

woke up at 5 to the humidifier off. and the nightlight out. strange. they're all plugged into this surge protector and it was like ... real wet down there. i immediately saw that there was a problem with the humidifier. just bought the thing and have been raving about it to almost everybody who would listen and read. anyway, um, it didnt take long before i knew ihad a problem that would require me getting shoes on and going down into the basement, amidst morw cobwwebs than the house on 1313 mockingbird lane.

so after flipping the circuit breaker, to both of the breakers for the living room (thank GOD i knew something about electricity), i realized i had to cut the mac off ... oh well. i could have had a fire. and i can't think of any reason i DIDNT have a fire. this house would have gone up in a second. shit. i really really need to take better care of these kinds of things. i'm kinda worried about all the cables i got going into this wall-socket. i thinki'm ok tho. i reallydont run taht much. tv, and the computer. and now that i have the lcd's., it should be less. anyway, um, i need to get on over the bathroom. i had to stick 3 suppositories up there and i'm starting to feel the rush. it normally will get right down to the very end, and then bug the hell outta me with this constant feeling of having to go.

like i said, its only half way thru the day. what was your morning like?

Letter of the WeeQ

Sunday, at Wal-Mart, I saw a person try to put an item in their jacket. At first I thought this person was a jerk. I was buying and they were stealing. I paid for my purchase without notifying anyone.

But after I returned home, I became convinced that it was OK to steal. Perhaps this person lost their job due to the cascading effects of the superstore's dominance of other businesses. Perhaps this person has a minimum-wage, part-time job without health care. In any case, the Walton family certainly has enough money to cover the loss.

When I compare the theft of a $15 item to the grand larceny by corporate America, which ran Enron into the ground, which reaps record oil profits, which passes out cash to God knows who in Iraq, and which occupies the seats of government and takes bribes, I now see the act of stealing a small gift for a poor child as heroic.

I dare say that the treatment by Wal-Mart and the police of this person would be harsher than for those who do not steal their millions in the bright fluorescent light of a store.

-Greg Wilcox, Des Moines.

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Letter Of The Day

Is Iowa 41st in the nation in the amount it pays the football coaches at its state universities? Why not?
-Anne Crane,
Des Moines.

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there's a problem with mac IE's interface

there are noi buttons for italic, bold, and what have you like there are in other browsers' windows. i wonder if anybody knows about it. because as it is, there's not much you can do with this

Quote of the Day

A man couldn’t start his car because a cat was in front of it. I saw that on the news. Who wants to know?”
-- Sandra Schultz

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http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2005/12/12/local/doc439d14b5d582f938523390.txt

Letter Of The Day

I am sickened that our government would kidnap, questionably interrogate, and hold an innocent German man, Khaled Masri, in a manner reminiscent of Stalinist Russia ("Pressured to Stop al-Qaida, CIA Makes Mistakes," Dec. 5). That is not consistent with our nation's ideals.

-James Blackburn, Des Moines

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