I picked the following up from MacDailyNews and thought it was a great call on capitalism taking care of it’s own if the government leaves well enough alone.

With Microsoft net income dropping by nearly 1/3rd(29%) this quarter is that not a call for Obama to bail them out, or too just let nature take it’s course.

In a capitalist socity it might take 10+ years for Apple to achive dominence, or Microsoft could start making products that don’t suck, or some other upstart(It could be you, this is America after all, no dream is too big.) could take the world by storm. Either way the people win. If the government takes over the computer industry we would be stuck with 90′s tech for a centry and probaby all be speaking Chinese long before that.

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Excerpts from a BusinessWeek interview with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, October 12, 2004:

Steve Jobs: Apple had a monopoly on the graphical user interface for almost 10 years. That’s a long time. And how are monopolies lost? Think about it. Some very good product people invent some very good products, and the company achieves a monopoly. But after that, the product people aren’t the ones that drive the company forward anymore. It’s the marketing guys or the ones who expand the business into Latin America or whatever. Because what’s the point of focusing on making the product even better when the only company you can take business from is yourself? So a different group of people start to move up. And who usually ends up running the show? The sales guy… Then one day, the monopoly expires for whatever reason. But by then the best product people have left, or they’re no longer listened to. And so the company goes through this tumultuous time, and it either survives or it doesn’t.

BusinessWeek: Is this common in the industry?
Steve Jobs: Look at Microsoft — who’s running Microsoft?

BusinessWeek: Steve Ballmer.
Steve Jobs: Right, the sales guy. Case closed.

I found iBlogger, it’s an iPhone app that supposedly let’s me post fairly easily to Xanga.

The email post option for Xanga almost always gives me a “Out of Memory” error. Which is annoying. It also does not allow for use of a “return” button to seperate paragraphs.

So I will try this(iBlogger) a few times and see how well it works.

In so trying out all options I saw the following fella a few days back. It’s always nice to run into someone nifty.



Check me out @ twitter!

At home(the TX one) fix’in to leave again.

Should have left alread but forgot to do laundry. Got to hang out with Joe Day, Alan Cleaver, Matthew Mark Miller, MegLeb Hutchings, Zach Hutchings, and a fella named Dan.

Last week was a good one. I think I have found a new home over at www.twitter.com/BlackWolf_ and it seems that Xanga’s email posting is not working or y’all would have had a few more posts sense the last time.

All that to say I don’t hate you, but twitter allows me to live a mobile life and that life is good to me.

If I were to do, or better mirror my twitter posts here it would not translate to well.

They limit you to 140 characters per post, which is good for me cause I can type on for 12 pages and say nothing. Or all of what I did say could be summed up in 140 characters.

Teaches you to be consise and get you point out quickly.

Anyway none of you care about that to much I suspect cause it really doesn’t even really sound all that interesting to me. Sometimes that is how life it.

If Xanga gets a good mobile interface let me know.

As a side note before I leave, I am thinking about moving to a wordpress blog and doing a few post/week over there.

I’ll be sure to keep you in the loop. It will probably be a time delayed loop due to the slow(and mostly good) changes here at Xanga.

BlackWolf

Sometimes playing a board game is a lot of fun. And for some people
it’s not.

Keep in mind, games are designed to foster and boost friendships, not
to create lifelong enemies.

I am currently posting quite a bit at www.twitter.com if you hang out
over there follow me @BlackWolf_ for my life in 140 character bits or
less.

OK so I have been email posting recently. I think that is the way to go with Xanga.

If anyone knows of a good interface to use on the iPhone for Xanga let me know. I am currently on Facebook, and Twitter nowadays. They have pretty good interfaces for the iPhone. I am also currently in the Apple Store in Chula Vista, CA stealing power to charge up my iPhone. :~)

I have been drawing up plans for a news/commentary type of website. If anyone has any helpful advise, or just wants to chat about it give me a ring.

That line above was my first public comment and commitment to said website. I will let you know how it progresses. I will be needing contributers so if you are interested and witty let me know. Looking to go into beta in 6 months, and go live in a year. I know almost nothing about this process so that time schedule may seem extra long and/or extra short to the more informed.

If you in S.Cal. give me a call, I may be stuck here all weekend. Certainly overnight.

I am thinking it’s time I add to my list of passions. Currently I
have 4 passions. Coffee, Jesus and Driving. Not always in that order.

I propose to myself of adding Scotch to that list. I really enjoy it.
I think it’s great. I do it whenever it doesn’t interfer with the
others.

It is a noble pursuit.

I shall think on it.

Maybe I should add chasing women? Nahhh, I drink Scotch more often
then I chase women. Anywho, that’s my thought today. Or it was last
night at 03:00 when I got home and decided to relax for awhile before
going to bed.

Look I’m a citrus!!

I bought myself lunch yesterday in Borger, TX. whilst ordering an
older man was showing the order taking gal a drawling(Texan Lingo) of
a head stone.

I didn’t interupt, but I did interfere. He seemed to have a desire to
explain himself. I, not particularly caring, but always up for a
story poured a cup of coffee and looked into this mans soul.

His tear stained eyes, always on the brink of welling up again were in
contrast to his soft but strong voice as he kindly explained the
drawling of the eventually to be shared headstone with his wifes info
already filled in. Her final moments happened between 09:30 and 10:15
on Aug. 28, 2008 when she sent her husband to the store for some
chocolate moose.

They knew it was coming and were prepared. Her only regret was that
she couldn’t stick around to meet great grandkids. Her . . .
better . . . their grandchil’ren thou, now they had great lives of
homeschool mixed with public ed. and are on full ride scholarships to
be teachers and the like. The kids had good productive lives that had
been molded with the wisdom and guidence of hard working parents.

There is of course a books worth of info gleened from my small 10 min
window into the lives of these strangers. But you get the idea. We
all die, make sure your life is worth it.

Dropped at one of the oil refineries in Borger, they insist on PPE,
which I think is stupid, so while obeying their rules I make sure to
mock them as much as possible.

Christine, this is for you. I would strongly recomend that you
consider this outfit for your eventual bridesmaids.

Some days are better then others.

Scottish professor of history at Edinburgh University, a.k.a. Lord Woodhouselee, author of The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic (1776)

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”–Alexander Fraser Tytler

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So . . . last night I slept with a Frenchwoman.

I know what your thinking, “Ah Casey, where are you going with this? While I have no doubts of your heathenness and wilingness to not follow the advise of Jesus this is evan too far for you. Besides, while I know you would do something like that. Why would she, or any woman for that matter, sleep with you? I thought better of the French, evan if you don’t.”

Well it was either that or give her $80 and I am right close to broke.

When I get weefee(that’s how the French pronounce wifi) and my laptop out I will finish telling you the story.

BlackWolf