The Mystery Post-it

Just now, after making my regular afternoon Diet Coke run, I discovered a Post-it note stuck to the control panel of the elevator. The contents of that note are exactly as follows:

"Dave says not theirs. They came home w/all their clothes on, but had a great time. Must have been a wild party after they left!"

What does it all mean? How do I get invited to the next party?

Hunt for little green men yields only a pink slip

This story just plain pissed me off. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' dismissal of Charles E. Smith is wildly, incredibly unfair, and the coverage of the story falls far short of explaining the nature of Mr. Smith's "offense."

The software in question is an ingenious screensaver developed by SETI that processes a tiny amount of data during periods when the host computer would otherwise be unoccupied. I've had the same software on my home machine and my work machine for years, as have several colleagues. The software is unobtrusive, and would in no way affect the perfomance of the ODJFS computers, or Mr. Smith, for that matter.

I hope Mr. Smith finds a very good lawyer and sues the bejabbers out of the hyper-reactive morons at ODJFS.

Yahoo! News - Anti-Ketchup Comments Draw Fire From Heinz


And now the phrase "nonpartisan condiment" will be stuck in my head for days.

Yahoo! News - Intel Officials Have Bleak View for Iraq

Is there any question that this entire Iraq fiasco was mismananged from the beginning? George W. Bush entered the Whitehouse with a horrendous record as a businessman, and now we're paying for his blunder with blood. And there's no end in sight, regardless of who wins the election.

Can you say "quagmire?"

Yahoo! News - Philly Considers Wireless Internet for All

The OneCleveland intiative was out in front on this kind of effort, and gets a nice mention in this AP article. But it's unclear at this point if enough has been done to make Clevelanders aware of this remarkable plan. And beyond basic awareness, what has been done to describe the benefits of such a plan, beyond free or low-cost Internet access? What is being done to sell the value of Wifi mobility, not just to the end user, but to businesses that can leverage this latest innovation?