This is possibly the most uplifting news I’ve heard from a tech-company in a long while. Google has openly stated in a blog post that they oppose a certain proposition that would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry.
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it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8. While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 — we should not eliminate anyone’s fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.
I think it’s a bold move for Google to take, but one I think every right-thinking company should take. After all, you don’t find many companies saying they are neutral on segregation between black and white people, do you?
Edit: So has Apple, Adobe, Yahoo and several others! Sanity at last!
So if it’s a girl she won’t be named after her mother I suppose…
Every once in a while in between loads of spam someone adds a thoughtful comment on a blog. Nothing particularly interesting to other readers perhaps, just a “Good job”, “Well put” or “Thanks for sharing”. It’s a wonderful thing to anyone that ever puts a bit of heart into a post and if you’re anything like me (and why wouldn’t you be?) you treasure these comments. We raise our voice, sadly, more often in disapproval than support, and the friendly nod or encouraging smile that is so inexpensive to give and so valuable to receive in meatspace is fraught with barriers on the internet. You may agree with someone in a heated discussion but not wish to get involved or publicly make a stand in the matter. You may not want to register or leave your email or you may just feel that wording your approval is too much of a hassle.
Call me a sucker for praise or an insecure sissy if you will, but there’s no denying the basic human need of positive feedback from your peers. Don’t take my word for it, take Maslows.
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Perpetrating some hackery on my iPhone I stumbled over my custom generated dictionary file. I found a odd sort of pleasure in the fragmented and / or randomly constructed phrases it contained. Since I’ve nothing else to contribute with today, I’ll share it with you. No I have not been drinking.
but feels so damn sluggish dear god yes let’s just hope will be out soon and will be painless for unlocked phones things that gather windows show hide remove files rename all files in folder saturday night slightly just by breathing air wondering i’ll to for using because this is some black magic shit then remembered don’t believe in haha time for some to see that of the visitors my mainly tech and web related use what the are four people thinking oh wait tell lie only guess my mom and dad and their dog then the dog only counts as tenth of person since it passed and over iphone apps being useless input feeds tv books where’s the time to think safe as in the easily the best mouse ever for those tasks just can’t find course plo fine my secret trick slamming my genitals on the desk scream am fear me and just in itunes plo caution however you’ll lose and jailbreak apps totally worth it to me since they’ll be out soon anyway hear one more word about i’m going to scream and will so shall bin it how clipping test this is stupid her okay first smoke today i’m quitting first smoke today i’m quitting temperate really naturally spent two hours making the to get work done for for my blog fail sure but as you average computer user user i’d expect it to heavily slanted away from oslo fire it feels sad the first time your don’t recognize grandparents didn’t recognize me me for the first time no joke i’d love for this to work nicely although wish would come with an iphone app soon just isn’t what i’m after test for text recognize bin test venter can’t edit but can depressed all were it’s too early for to think of anything witty to say just pretend that whatever says next was really said me html plo several methods none of them optimal i’m using these days and it’s not too shabby waste so far this day has failed to amaze and dazzle with it’s awesomeness something extraordinary better happen soon on the bus test bin does the dictionary suck here as well seems it’s good anyway still have problems loving this app maybe it’ll improve sure hope so what is this bullshit fix it cheers found it then promptly lost interest thanks anyway create iphone flex du i’m i’m talking about flash dag was better at object oriented programming illustration singing climbing cooking sex the last once upon time web professional was supposed to know both design and programming is there place for this middleman anymore worries may not cut as programming in this context even alex book as list tasks make i’m confused import flash display but only use some of the in my code does or just plo ring agree but it’s nice to know clients don’t suffer when up if this but see my update after umpteen secs plo agreed just good to know clients don’t for my men now that we’ve got to know each other and do hope think too forward but please what are your feelings feelings regarding you don’t right now at this well i’ve better and i’ve felt worse suppose i’m happy and lift in the wee hours better catch some deadline day is my favorite joke perversely last minute up up and away on bike what kind of up place do you work oh right get drunk instead den money for beer ashamed wish hadn’t wished wished money for beer wish wished had money and secretly spent it on beer nmr nmr ok i’ll bite what’s trying set up compile and be on saturday bowdlerized ipsum gidder opp blir z’s misc hadde ikke tenkt typen ser textmate swf’s fuck lazyness meh i’ikke nme yojimbo dder opp blir z’s misc hadde ikke tenkt typen ser ikke nme yojimbo mbo e yojimbo ikke yojimbo o bo tive hotkey yojimbo mbo bo imbo
That is all.
