http://redrooster.485i.com Crowing madly. Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:34:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (This is a draft copy at the moment) There was an article in the NYTimes over the weekend discussing the issue of recruiting in the tech sector as it relates to immigrants and temporary work visas. There is no better example of an intersection of both our screwy economy and our ... http://redrooster.485i.com/2009/04/13/yeah-id-like-to-live-in-california-too/ The plan is titled "Jobs for America" and yet only in a few places (in the new energy initiatives sections) does it mention anything about job creation. American companies need to create jobs. Government jobs as an entitlement program is not a particularly compelling answer and is not ... http://redrooster.485i.com/2008/09/19/notes-while-reading-mccains-economic-proposal/ Here's an idea: I have a new influx of event invites in my inbox and browser tabs, all conspiring to make me a consumer of some sort from now until eternity (like, no one's inviting me to a tribute to BrianVan, and, really, I wouldn't be too embarrassed to attend ... http://redrooster.485i.com/2008/07/30/i-has-events/ I was having a conversation the other night with someone about the trend of remote housing communities being abandoned and ghettoized in some rare cases due to the fact that no one could afford to live there or keep the place watched by whomever. The other party in the conversation ... http://redrooster.485i.com/2008/07/29/back-to-amber-waves-of-grain-or-how-we-all-got-priced-out-of-the-boondocks/ Because I wasn't getting anything truly meaningful done today... I've been doing the whole "online" thing for the past 12 years. Half of my lifetime and counting further. I've been involved in a variety of scenes and activities. Several have threatened to eat me alive, and some came pretty close to ... http://redrooster.485i.com/2008/07/22/information-overload/  Seems that NowPublic took a break from poaching Flickr photos long enough to assemble a list of... frankly, I don't know what this list is about. "50 Names We Drew Out Of A Von Dutch Hat" is about the only explanation that makes sense to me. Let's do a quick cavity ... http://redrooster.485i.com/2008/07/20/the-r-factor-stands-for-retarded/ A bit of mind clearing before tackling the last day of the week... I'm finally done with a long stretch of parties that took place unusually at the beginning of June. This is supposed to be dead quiet time for social engagements, but it's actually been incredibly busy lately. Even though ... http://redrooster.485i.com/2008/06/13/startup-shutdown/ So, after a brutal progression of parties and fluff events over the past eight days, I'd like to share my thoughts on what I've experienced. http://redrooster.485i.com/2008/06/11/internet-weak/ A couple of odd things have happened over the prior months. One, Tumblr has taken off as a singular application phenomenon almost unlike any I've ever seen in the past. Rarely does a web application pick up this many users this quickly unless it is something destined to become a ... http://redrooster.485i.com/2008/05/21/tumblr-stealing-and-the-death-of-ideas/ alexbalk: I used to be disgusted, but now I'm just -- actually, I'm still disgusted. The Indiana law was challenged in separate suits filed by the Indiana Democratic Party and by another group of plaintiffs that included elected officials and community groups. The plaintiffs argued that the state had failed ... http://redrooster.485i.com/2008/04/29/im-a-candidate-who-represents-people-with-no-faces/