I find the whole "tcot" thing really annoying on Twitter, so today I was glad to see this pathetic attempt at a tweet:


It's just too typical that there be Microsoft Word junk in one of those spammy updates...

I think I have finally perfected the experience I want when I open up a web browser. The most important part is that it renders content correctly and quickly, and provides a basic development tools. Firefox has long been my preferred browser, but until now I have not taken time to customize its interface away from the leopard-styled default. Recently, though, this has changed. Mozilla Labs just released Personas, and as simple as the extension might seem, it has really changed the way I work within Firefox. I created a the simple CarbonHUD style using the four customizable fields and then proceeded to remove all of the toolbars I had (there weren't many...) until there was nothing left. The result is a great interface that simply cannot distract from whatever important things are going on inside the browser window. When multiple tabs are open, you can see the dimpled grey background, but the best way to use this setup is for web applications. Running a web app this way makes it integrate so seamlessly into your Operating System, it is great. This is what I mean:

Satisfaction: Sometimes, Life is Great.

It seems people are "all a-Twitter" about Twitter itself, particularly the economics of Twitter's business model. I've been doing some research on the subject recently, and something amazing was revealed to me. It looks like Twitter is doing far better than anyone could have imagined.

I'll take a quote from the Twitter "About Us" page: "While our business model is in a research phase, we spend more money than we make."

I've been keeping relatively up to date on Barrack Obama's business through his weekly addresses and scattered bits of non-CNN news coverage. It continually annoys me to see people react so negatively to the new President's plans, when those same people (and many others) have been changemongers for the past 8 (or more) years. I'm not American, so I am not inclined to blindly accept all messages from white buildings in Washington as the truth, but I thought a little numbers comparison could prove useful in deterring the aforementioned mockery of this man's hope for the future of a country in need. I would like to put President Obama's broadband upgrade plan into perspective. First, I'll start with the facts.

• The United States spent approximately $623 billion dollars on military initiatives in 2008. (Reference)

• Comcast's 2008 Operating Expenses were approximately $6 billion. (from 2008 3^rd Quarter figures: Reference)

The new President's general attitude toward military spending appears to involve significantly less investment in shooting oil fields in the middle-east, allowing one to be relatively confident in assuming the budget for military spending will be drastically reduced in the very near future. This means there will be a few hundred billion taxpayer dollars floating around the Whitehouse, and you can be sure the new administration will jump at the chance to put their money where their mouths are.



I only hope the government here in Canada watches enough American news to catch this train before it leaves.