Clem has been busy blocking out her Halloween costume. I'm a bit amazed, she drew the hat, the skirt and the cape and is now working with her nanny to make the costume. I've seen an early attempt and it looks just like her drawings... Of course I quite like the idea of her in the RAF air cadets but I guess dads don't get everything they wish for ;-)
 Lolo |
 1962 |
 Helga |
 Ansel |
 1974 |
 cinéma |
(there is also "infrared" but it weren't very nice)
Aside from the absurdity of camelCaps in blog post titles, isn't the camerabag iPhone app groovy? I mean I've hated the iPhone camera from the start and this was compounded by the zero quality improvement in the iPhone 3G release but this app somehow manages to make taking rubbish quality digital photographs fun again. It's a bit like using the Nokia 6600 for the first time...
extra credit for those who can name the movie
Wow, a great voice from the republican side explains how hatred can run away from you and how Palin is fanning the Reichsparteitag flames...
The problem would appear to be the small issue of the fraction in the fractional reserve system or in other words, the difference between the amount of real money the US government has to hand and the amount of monopoly money created by the banking system
From goldmoney.com
The key point of Russell's essay can be summed up in the following paragraph: "I say fantasy because the central banks are able to create money at will, with no discipline to stop them. This I believe - is immoral, even evil. The current system allows a central bank to create money out of nothing - whereas I and my fellow Americans have to work for that same money."
This process of creating "money out of nothing" is made possible by fractional reserve banking. As its name implies, banks keep a reserve, i.e., assets, for only part of their liabilities. For that portion for which they don't keep a reserve, they can create money (i.e., bank liabilities) out of nothing.
I've been trying to catch up on the fractional-reserve system and make my own mind up where I stand on it. Tricky really as aggressive growth does look good when it works...
While wikipedia often fails in the accuracy stakes, its talk pages are a great window into the sides of a particular issue. The wikipedia talk page on the FRS is just that.
OK one last post before bed... I've just been reviewing the impact my mucking about with the templates has had on old URLs and came across the old splorp post with the "powered by Newton" gif.
I click on the link and ta-dah! the Splorp Newton server is still running, still reliably serving both static and dynamically generated pages - not sure why that makes me so happy but it does :-)
Just saw Tim's piece on the Glasshouse blog on Orange Rockcorps and understanding the value of the social capital.
From there I had a quick look around and wow, quite a lot of negative opinion out there and a surprisingly downbeat response to the Orange rockcorps thing over at brandrepublic:
This is incredibly lame. The Orange 'I Am' campaign just limps from bad to worse. Busta Rhymes? What year are we in? 1999? I can't remember the last campaign from Fallon that was any good.
I guess there's a gap between the original and the Orange "I am" branded version? This is how the rc site describes the initiative:
RockCorps harnesses the power of music to inspire volunteering. We produce concerts for which the only way in is to volunteer 4 hours at a project we organize with non-profit partners. You can't win a ticket; you can't buy a ticket; you have to earn a ticket to a concert that becomes a celebration of giving back.
Tim reckons
If the company makes it work, it's the energy and community productivity generated that will constitute the value of the initiative; not the SMS bundles sold. The number of hours donated, or playgrounds renovated is a wholly inadequate proxy for the social capital generated by a campaign like this...
read Tim's whole post over at Glasshouse Partnership
Someone sell me a "Vote for that One" t-shirt, peuh-leeze...
Well I don't want to offend church-goers but this really got me: ascii-art messages from Dog in the source code. It's like playing the LP backwards but for my source-code generation :-)
How cool is that?
Just had lunch with Palin on the box.
I'm trying to decode exactly why she makes me so angry (more so than the millions of Americans who are so thrilled to have her on board). I'm still working on the finer points but in today's opus (she is speaking to a mob in Florida as I type this) the following came across fairly clearly:
I learnt a lovely new word today:
