My lurker returned twice this morning . . .but this time chose to stay on for 27 minutes, rather than the usual 0:00. How nice. Still no commentary from Sunnyvale aka Inktomi aka Yahoo.com . . . sigh. Soon they will have to be banished from the site.
A run down on what has me boggled this final week of September:
1. Gapless Playback on Itunes v.7.0 Why is Apple doing nothing to address the fact that this new version of ITunes is corrupting music files by the thousands? Most folks on the discussion boards appear to attribute the problem to the beast known as "gapless playback".
2. Clinton, Wallace, Bin Laden: Ho hum. I know everyone in the blogosphere has already sliced and diced this story since Clinton accused Wallace of "smirking" and cleverness the other evening. Nonetheless, Jon Stewart did a wonderful montage of how our "free and democratic" media chose to focus on Clinton's emotional well-being (his anger, meltdown, throbbing veins in neck) rather than the facts and information presented during the interview. When Rummy, Bush, and Condi get their panties in a wad (and there are plenty of instances when this has occurred) the media's lips are zipped shut. Ah, it takes me back to the Chvez speech I blogged about earlier. Most folks (including Clinton I believe) felt he ruined his repuation for using the term "devil" to describe Bush. Again, all this focus on Chavez's rhetorical delivery, detract attention away from his message concerning US foreign policy. And, let's not forget, the US was involved in a coup attempt against Chavez during the early years of his administration in Venezuela.
3. Keith Olberman's "Countdown": JB has made me a believer in this cat. Read #2, and proceed to conduct a search on Olberman's "commentary" on the entire Clinton/Wallace debacle.
4. Life and Death decisions during a Hurricane: The sad stories about Katrina never cease--despite the fact that the Superdome is back for the football fans, NO tourism, and network ratings. 60 Minutes aired a segment about a doctor and a group of nurses who are accused of delivering "fatal" doses of pain medication to terminally ill patients in a nursing home during the storm. Nobody knew when rescue workers were coming to the aid of the nursing home, so the doctor made a decision to ensure that certain patients were made "comfortable" and denies any wrongdoing. Now charged with "murder", the high court in New Orleans is going to have to determine whether the case goes to a grand jury. This raises many ethical dilemmas over life, death, and accountabilty during Katrina.
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