Just a quickie to tide you over until i can put some more up - I’ll do a follow-up when I start again after next week to explain what happened during the CAAAAR! onomatopoeia and/or continue the saga.
To explain our friend, dangerous. He’s very good at getting himself into scrapes. Not the ordinary kind but the Some Mothers Do Have ‘em kind. And it’s not like he doesn’t try to not get into trouble - the fella can do an Excel spreadsheet itinerary that would put Mrs Bucket (pronounced Boo-Kay) to shame.
This really is a sweetener for the actual story line because I haven’t got enough time to flesh it out properly - sorry about that - but I hope you enjoy this one anyway. See you the week after next!
love obie
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EDIT: apologies for the lack of comic updates since this comic - I’m afraid that due to pressures of work, I’ve not been able to spend the time to get more comics out - I’m looking at ways of speeding up the current process (which take upwards of 8 hours per comic) but service will commence soon (I hope)
Apologies for the lack of updates recently - been planning a new format for the comic
In the meantime I’ll leave you in the capable hands of Shorewood(school?)’s Video Production 1 class - they’ blew my socks off and then they blew my feet off. Good work, guys.
which is a response to this video
which although less accomplished had me grinning from ear to ear for the entire thing
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.htmlI really can’t believe these guys.If this kind of thing antagonises you as much as it does me, you should start listening to the No Agenda podcast with Adam Curry and John C Dvorak. Twice a week, they go through the news and find common threads such as the aggressive greed of the GM seed / food company, Monsanto whose (non-reproducing) terminatoror seeds have been responsible for the suicides of thousands of (desparately-needed) farmers in India and the fact that despite numerous announcements to the contrary, Obama’s government is one of the MOST secretive and lobbyist-packed governments* ever.*from the no agenda shownotes 19th feb 09 - Here are former lobbyists Obama has tapped for top jobs:
Eric Holder, attorney general nominee, was registered to lobby until 2004 on behalf of clients including Global Crossing, a bankrupt telecommunications firm.
Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year on behalf of the National Education Association.
William Lynn, deputy defense secretary nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for defense contractor Raytheon, where he was a top executive.
William Corr, deputy health and human services secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until last year for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit that pushes to limit tobacco use.
David Hayes, deputy interior secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until 2006 for clients, including the regional utility San Diego Gas & Electric.
Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for financial giant Goldman Sachs.
Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was registered to lobby until 2005 for clients, including the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, U.S. Airways, Airborne Express and drug-maker ImClone.
Mona Sutphen, deputy White House chief of staff, was registered to lobby for clients, including Angliss International in 2003.
Melody Barnes, domestic policy council director, lobbied in 2003 and 2004 for liberal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Constitution Society and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Cecilia Munoz, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, was a lobbyist as recently as last year for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.
Patrick Gaspard, White House political affairs director, was a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union.
Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff to the president’s assistant for intergovernmental relations, lobbied for the American Association of Justice from 2001 until 2005.
Apple has been building the iPhone as a new kind of computer: slick, mass-market, multi-touch, futuristic and utterly, utterly closed to anyone wanting to do anything that Apple hasn’t already envisaged for it.
I’ve been researching and learning about Cocoa Touch for some projects of my own, one of which would probably take a couple of months but would be amazing on the platform, but after what happened to Google, I just can’t afford to commit that kind of time to something that Apple has given itself the right to reject because ‘we just want to - your userbase isn’t cool like us’.
I’ve been told from numerous sources that it really isn’t that bad, but the problem is that I won’t find out if it is or isn’t until I’m the one in the financial hole waiting for Apple to pull me out by approving my effort.
Seriously, I’m thinking Android on the HTC Hero (with Flash, I might add) for my next business phone and move all of my apps onto my old iPod Touch (or simply retain my old iPhone in the bottom of my bag for when I want to play Monkey Island which pretty much relegates it to the same, slightly dusty position on the shelf with my PSP.
