Irony is a word that is misused a lot. Ever since the movie Reality Bites, which had a scene specifically about the definition of irony, I've made a point to be clear what is and isn't irony. This gets me in trouble with people, especially those who like Alanis Morrisette and the song "Ironic", which unfortunately talks about a lot of things that are not ironic. In that way the song is actually ironic. It happened again this morning, I started pestering somebody about their incorrect use of the word irony and they used the song as proof that they were correct. Thankfully, comedy came to the rescue.
I have released the alpha 2 version of my FSI Navigator AIR Application. The only new feature is that it uses the AIR Update Framework to check for an update once a day. At this point the updates are automatic only, with no way to manually update. Manual update checks will be available before the 1.0 release.
It is recommended that all current users update to this version so that they can keep up with the latest news in the pre-release process.
To make it easier to install, I've added an install badge to my previous post and I am adding one here.
I have also set up the project in my issue tracking system. If people would like to give constructive feedback and help the development of the FSI Navigator project that is the place to go.
A while ago I wrote a blog post titled "Language Lessons." It was a post designed to showcase some of the 'cheap as free'™ ways to study a language. One of those ways was fsi-language-courses.com, a website dedicated to making the public domain FSI language courses freely available in an electronic format. While it is a great resource, the site isn't extremely usable. Adobe Integrated Runtime(AIR) to the rescue.
Being a parent is a learning experience. A common theme while parenting is teaching your kids to be better communicators. In trying to teach my kids I am often forced to learn and re-learn concepts until I find the best way to explain something to them. Recently I had an educational encounter with my 4 year when I was trying to get him to ask for something, while I was at it I threw in a politeness lesson as well.
I just created a Flexcoders group for my.opera. I figure there are a lot of programmer type people in this community who may at least be interested in the technology and this could be a good place to look for answers in the community. It's my first group though so please be patient as I learn the ropes. For those of you who don't know what Flex is, you can either read some of my posts on the subject or go to Adobe's website. The group will be their to focus on anything in the Flex framework ecosystem, much of which is still in development.
Last week I wrote about Sunday's Green Party debate hosted by the Alameda County Greens. Well the debate happened yesterday and here is the update from their site:
For a long time we heard about the Iowa caucuses and how important it is to the election. However, I just thought it was another type of election in a booth. Well it's not and I found out more by reading some of the comments on the Bill Richardson for President Iowa Caucuses open thread. In the comments there is a great post titled "From Precinct 1, Boone County Iowa" that describes the process quite well. It sounds very exciting to be a part of that!
Once again it is the beginning of a new year. At least for those of us that consider this New Year's Day and consider the passing of one day to be a good time to look into the new year. Often the new year brings both celebration and resolutions. Resolutions are those things we plan on doing in the new year. Instead of doing something this year I decided to be something this year. Instead of creating a resolution I decided to create myself as a possibility for the year.
I think the whole lolcats phenomenon is silly. It's kind of funny and some of the parodies are much better than the originals. However I think the following lol cat sums up the phenomenom quite well.
This past Wednesday we had the Republican CNN/YouTube debate. After having a chance to watch it, I got a better understanding of why people are willing to stand behind these men as the next president of the United States. I’m still not in favor of these candidates, but I did learn about some of the issues that are important to the Republican party. It might be the independent in me, but I feel it is vitally important to pay attention to what the other parties are saying. It helps to understand their point of view, respect that they have a point of view ( that may not be different than yours ) and can open your eyes up to things that might be important to you but not to the party you support. With that said, I got a bit miffed that it is even an issue that some of the questions may have come from people who are connected to Democrats, especially ones running for president.
Irony is a word that is misused a lot. Ever since the movie Reality Bites, which had a scene specifically about the definition of irony, I've made a point to be clear what is and isn't irony. This gets me in trouble with people, especially those who like Alanis Morrisette and the song "Ironic", which unfortunately talks about a lot of things that are not ironic. In that way the song is actually ironic. It happened again this morning, I started pestering somebody about their incorrect use of the word irony and they used the song as proof that they were correct. Thankfully, comedy came to the rescue.
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