Future President, Barack Obama

June 29, 2006 · Filed Under Politics · 4 Comments 

“Not every mention of God in public is a breach to the wall of separation. Context matters,” the Illinois Democrat said in remarks to a conference of Call to Renewal, a faith-based movement to overcome poverty.

“It is doubtful that children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance feel oppressed or brainwashed as a consequence of muttering the phrase `under God,’” he said. “Having voluntary student prayer groups using school property to meet should not be a threat, any more than its use by the High School Republicans should threaten Democrats.”

Excessive Jail Time?

June 29, 2006 · Filed Under Uncategorized · Comment 

I am not sure if this punishment, serious prison time, fits the crime, looting. I love to see people get thrown away for doing horrible things. And I even love seeing someone sent a message with a weekend in jail or whatever, but when you have excessive jail time for people who aren’t really all that dangerous…

Oh, and this line of thinking doesn’t apply to corporate fraud cases where a couple guys hurt a million shareholders. That deserves serious jail time.

Shooting a Dog

June 29, 2006 · Filed Under Politics · 1 Comment 

On the list of horrible earthly things that a person could do wrong, where on the list is shooting your son’s 6-month-old labrador/chow puppy in a drunken rampage?

Who Do You Want to Believe?

June 28, 2006 · Filed Under Blog · Comment 

After a media blitz that assumed the worst, please read this piece and tell me which direction you are leaning in the Duke Lacrosse case.

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

June 27, 2006 · Filed Under Music · Comment 

Everyone should check out this album from Radiohead’s frontman. This is a spectacular album. It is electronic, poppy, and at the same time raw and musical. While there are no shortage of blips and bleeps, almost all of the vocals on the record are pure and clean. It is quite a musical dichotomy. Oh, and the songs are beautiful.

It’s like The British Postal Service.

Just remember, I told you so.

Charged for Stealing Wireless Internet

June 23, 2006 · Filed Under Blog · Comment 

Brewed Awakenings employees dialed 911 after Alexander Eric Smith of Battle Ground, Wash. piggybacked off the shop’s wireless Internet service for more than three months.

Difficulties with Miami Vice

June 21, 2006 · Filed Under Movies · 3 Comments 

Despite having Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell on board, the film adaptation of Miami Vice is having its share of problems.

Is anyone surprised that another TV adaptation is in danger of flopping? How many good ones have there been?

Lost in Space?
The Brady Bunch?
The Dukes of Hazzard?
Charlie’s Angels?
Bewitched?
Flipper?

Alright folks, someone name a good one.

Hello? Anyone out there?

The Stern Effect on Sirius

June 20, 2006 · Filed Under Radio · Comment 

Bridge Ratings, which tracks satellite radio sales, estimates 1.33 million Howard Stern listeners moved with him to Sirius Satellite.

That’s about 11% of his former audience, says Bridge, which projects that at this point, most Stern fans who are going to Sirius with him have already gone.

Bridge also surveyed 3,200 selfdescribed Stern fans who didn’t go to Sirius, and found 41% either had settled for their second-choice morning show or didn’t miss Stern enough to get Sirius.

Another 45% said satellite radio just isn’t enough of a value to pay for it, and 9% said they stopped listening to morning radio altogether.

Bridge did find Stern helped Sirius close the gap on its competitor, XM. Recent satellite sales have been split about evenly, where for a long time XM had an lead. Bridge projects XM at 8.4 million by year’s end and Sirius at 6.5 million.

Ever Wondered…

June 19, 2006 · Filed Under Uncategorized · Comment 

How I incorporate two blogs on the same front page here at FilteringCraig.com?

I begged MisterCrunchy to show me how he did it on his page, and then I stoled it for purposes of evil here.

Now he has written up an easy to read tutorial on the topic so you too can have two blogs all on the same page.

Eff This Email Software

June 16, 2006 · Filed Under Technology · 1 Comment 

Seriously, if an “Out of Office” notification isn’t going to come until about 8 hours after I send an email, what good is it really? Should it really take a corporate email system 8 hours to send an auto-notification that someone is out of the office?

And just in case you don’t know what email service I am talking about, let’s play complete the sentence.

3M is the maker of those little yellow Post-It Brand … blank.

When you are sitting in class you should probably take … blank.

When you can’t get a &^%$ing out of office reply in a timely fashion you are probably dealing with an email server that is hosting … blank.

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