Bob Morris @ Jul 4th 2006 09:44 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Palestine;
Switzerland said Monday that Israel has been violating international law in its Gaza offensive by heavy destruction and endangering civilians in acts of collective punishment banned under the Geneva conventions on the conduct of warfare.
Not that this should come as any surprise…
Bob Morris @ Jul 4th 2006 09:42 - Category: Unfiled ;
Sales plunge for U.S. automakers. High gas prices send buyers to Toyota, Honda.
Does Detroit ever learn? This happened in the 70’s too. High gas prices, as well as abysmal quality, cratered Detroit auto sales as buyers bought Japanese and German-made cars instead. Now the same process is happening again. And it’s not the well-paid execs of Detroit auto companies who will suffer when the assembly plants close, it’s the workers.
I lived in Michigan in the early-mid 70’s. Unemployment was way higher than other states. Yes, there was a recession, but the obstinate cluelessness and huge greed of the auto companies made things much worse for the workers. Layoffs and plants closures will surely be occurring again, if they haven’t started already. But only the workers, the execs generally get a free pass.
[tags]auto sales[/tags]
Bob Morris @ Jul 4th 2006 00:28 - Category: Unfiled ;
Check out the new widget on the left column, the scrolling list of blog names titled (not surprisingly) ‘Politics in the Zeros.’
If the blog name is preceded by the orange rss feed symbol then it’s linked to the rss feed. If it’s preceded by a blue dot then it’s just linked to the blog (which means either the blog doesn’t have an rss feed or I couldn’t find it.)
This is not just a geeky difference, the rss functionality is hugely more useful to you the web surfer. Here’s why.
Click a blog with a blue dot. You get another browser with the blog in it. Yawn.
Now click a blog with the orange rss symbol. You get a list of the most recent posts on that blog. Click any post to read it in its entirety. Click the little arrows on the left side to return. Nice, isn’t it?
This widget was created using Grazr. It uses OPML to access the RSS. OPML also supports collapsible lists, thus, this blog list can be easily be separated into categories, something I’ll be doing soon. (Note: Grazr will not write the OPML list of blogs for you, you’ll need to do that yourself.)
Is OPML and RSS geeky? Yes. However it’s also way powerful and useful.
[tags]rss, opml, grazr[/tags]
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