Walter Hutchens’ Blog

August 31st, 2009

Worth remembering: The late Sen. Kennedy was President Carter's antagonist: http://tinyurl.com/kennedy-carter #
Apps down at some top lib arts colleges: http://tinyurl.com/lauusk Others fine: http://tinyurl.com/lq2k6x #
WSJ.com – Hong Kong Stock Cops: From Mocked to Feared? http://bit.ly/yC2AO #
My own 2 cents: Apple should have gotten iPhone into China earlier rather than waiting to export the US carriers-sell-phones model to China. #
NY times on tough market for law school grads: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/business/26lawyers.html #
"Religious Views: ____." Wash Post on Facebook profiles & God ? http://is.gd/2HAIc (Isn't "it's complicated" a relationship status choice?) #
Poor Alabama county tries econ dev through pollution/trash: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/us/30ash.html #
Shiller on economic cycles as "social epidemics" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/business/economy/30view.html #
My vote, shame on Yale U Press: http://is.gd/2I45k (of course, shame on the precipitating religious extremism, too). #
Lamenting the end of summer . . . blessed to enjoy my job & look fwd to the thrill of new students, . . . but , ah, summer, why must you go? #

August 24th, 2009

Airports today: FOUR B'ham, St. Louis, Salt Lake & Spokane). Times Henry cried: ZERO. His reaction to whoosing air after landing: HUGE grin. #
Wondering how risky/effective it would be to send to a Korean family a simple letter written in English & run thru Google's translator. #

August 17th, 2009

Just learned Dane Howard, author of Future of Memories, is a founder of Vuvox, a cool tool that I used for http://tinyurl.com/HCH-pics . #
Cool stuff by Dane Howard here: http://bit.ly/YkqaW including thorough guide to Picasa photo software. #

August 10th, 2009

Whitworth back online, hooray! #
Cross-border provision of higher ed services in INDIA: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/06/india #
Like that the new WordPress lets you install themes (and plugins!) directly from w/in WP. Thinking it's time to start blogging again. #

August 3rd, 2009

iPhone on China Unicom: http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/21917/ (RT @rmack) #
NPR ATC story on dysfunction in my hometown (Jefferson Co, Alabama) http://bit.ly/mu7V5 #
Seems AC @ home's been broken (just running fan) all summer & maybe last summer too. How great that in Spokane I JUST noticed. #
I own a Mac… & an iPhone. But b/c default ACC format DRM'ed & won't work w/ Picasa "movies," I am SO DONE w/ iTunes store! Hello, Amazon! #
Facebook just blocked photo slideshow I tried to upload b/c background music allegedly infringes ©. Hmph. Lawrence Lessig, I feel you. . . #
For the record, I used 2 mins of Manhattans' Kiss & Say Goodbye as ironic bkgrnd for photos of my daughter releasing her pet frog into wild. #
Thank goodness FB is on the ball to prevent such egregious infringement! Non-commercial. Parody. Intended audience: 4 grandparents + friends #
Oh, and I actually did pay to get a digital copy of the song. Sigh . . . It may be time for a strict Creative Commons media diet . . . #
And where would a consumer even go to license/get clearance for such use? Like I said, Lessig is right; copyright law is BROKEN! #

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