David McCreath

Roseanne Cash brings the funny to the Nation.

In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a “whites only” shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn’t sit beneath the tree. The school said they didn’t care where students sat. The next day, students arrived at school to see three nooses (in school colors) hanging from the tree.

It gets worse. Read the rest over at While Seated.
Appalled doesn’t even begin to cover how I feel about this.

Anil Dash: Your April Fool’s Joke Sucks. Seriously.

Not a new concept, and in fact one of the legitimate uses frequently touted for a protocol that is admittedly usually used for distributing content of questionable origin. But I bring it up today because [Parallels Desktop for Mac](http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/) is now out of beta, and after three attempts to download the ~58MB disk image from the Parallels web site that each timed out after fifteen or so minutes, I found a [torrent](http://btjunkie.org/torrent?do=stat&id=2908d10a28e915379a784a69d12099c9a72ff9df51d9) for it. Using the torrent, the disk image downloaded in 11 minutes.
There are still some significant hurdles to getting BitTorrent into use by non-nerds: Configuring your router and your client to actually achieve that kind of speed requires some fiddling, the nomenclature is awkward (”torrent”, “seed”, “leach”, “peer”, and “tracker” all make some kind of sense, but don’t relate to anything in the Internet experience of most casual users), its reputation is that of a “pirate-ware”. But distributing something like Parallels, which so squarely aimed at nerds, should be a no-brainer.

For [Micki](http://www.mickipedia.com/?p=717), and by proxy, [Violet Blue](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2007/02/01/violetblue.DTL).
I guess I could have used Beavis and Butthead, too.

Ted Stevens goes off the rails while arguing against net neutrality. I’m sorry, folks. I didn’t vote for him. I didn’t vote for the annointed daughter of the drunk frat boy that became our governor, who I also didn’t vote for. These politicians are not representative of all Alaskans.

It’s taken me a while to actually do the deed, but today I handed in my letter of resignation at the [Anchorage School District](http://www.asdk12.org/). As of February 21, 2006, I’ll be under contract with [Mule Design](http://muledesign.com) as Lead Developer.
I’m really excited about the chance to work full-time with these folks. I’ve been doing small part-time jobs for them since September, and it’s gone very, very well. That part-time work has given us the opportunity to get to know each other and to figure out how we’re going to work 4,000 miles apart. Yes, that’s correct. Katie and I are staying in Anchorage. We bounced around the idea of moving down there, but ultimately Katie and I decided that we couldn’t move down there as quickly as Mule and I wanted to start working together, so the team at Mule very graciously agreed to try a long-distance contract. So far it’s working very well. It helps that we’re only one hour apart and that San Francisco is pretty easy to get to from Anchorage, but it’s still a huge gesture of faith on their part, and it’s very appreciated.

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A Significant Event

January 16th, 2006 Comments Off

A Brief Marketing Note

January 4th, 2006 Comments Off

“In Action” is not a good name for a newsletter, no matter how you *write* it, because when someone *says* it in his or her head (or to someone else, for that matter – “Hey, Frank! Did you see the last issue of _Edify In Action_?”), it will always *sound* like “[inaction](http://www.answers.com/inaction&r=67)”. And if you do a haphazard job with the display, like Edify has done here, it’ll even look like it. This is doubly true if the development of your main product is glacial.