Hello world!
And now the 419rs make it to FACEBOOK!! Using my name. Amazing.
The women of Iran are finding their voice.
Ay Iran is the unofficial national anthem of Iran. The Shah had his own (praising him, of course) and the Islamic Republic has another. However, Iranians everywhere learn and sing this song as a symbol of their pride and identity outside whatever opressive regime happens to control them at the time. The best analogue for us would be America the Beautiful - but imagine a Sarah Palin led coup had replaced The Star Spangled Banner with some song praising the coming rapture.
I will never forget how moving it was when a wedding I went to in Tehran broke out singing Ay Iran. It was a simple act, but to me, the outsider, it seemed like an extremely meaningful, though simple, act of political defiance.
I hear the protesters are in the streets singing it tonight, and my thoughts are with them.
Ay Iran.
Iran is pissed.
Our elections are broken, but when I see this, I try hard to remember not to take American democracy for granted.
The conversational style of Spam seems to be winning against google.
Stupid Metro headline OTD (one day late, via Seth)
I’ve been procrastinating through customization recently. I’m particularly happy with my current top bar. I’ve removed the extraneous stuff (mobile me, for instance), and am now using 2 different system monitors to get the stats I really want.
The memory bar graph and cpu stats come from MenuMeters, and the temperature and fan speeds come from iStat menus. I just liked the look of the MenuMeters versions better, and only iStat has temperature monitoring (which is important if you use your laptop on your lap). I also managed to get two different Google Notifiers working, one of which I hacked up to use the Conduit Labs logo instead of the gmail defaults.
Weekend talk about Riedel inspired me to find a wine I’ve never had before and bust out the fancy crystal.
FML
