Better Living Through Introspection

Aw, shucks:

This is Denny Hastert and welcome to my blog.

Speaker of the House starts blogging

CmdrTaco has some interesting insights into ego, virtual worlds, identity…and customer service, too boot:

But If the US Government told me to change my name… let’s say Congress passed a law making it illegal to have a first name that is a verb…Well I guess ‘Rob’ would have to go. My friends would still recognize me: I’d still have the same face, address, and social security number. I’d just have a cool new name like “Captain Fantastic Malda”. With a name like that, the auto mechanics would never try to rip me off!

Dang it! Totally forgot to tune this one in yesterday. Thank goodness for online archives:

You might not recognize him if you passed him on the street, but Sid Meier may be one of the most revered men in America — at least in the video game crowd. Join Kojo for a Tech Tuesday discussion with Sid Meier on the latest trends in the gaming world.

Audio archive on wamu.org

We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots.

But manipulating humans?

Prepare to be remotely controlled. I was.

Article on MSNBC.com

Zend Technologies, the PHP company, today announced the PHP Collaboration Project at its inaugural PHP conference and expo. The project is an open source initiative through which the PHP community and partners will together create an industrial-grade, de facto standard PHP Web application development and deployment environment. The Project’s first two open initiatives are:

• Zend PHP Framework: A Web application framework which will standardize the way PHP applications are built. The Zend PHP Framework will accelerate and improve the development and deployment of mission-critical PHP Web applications
• Engagement with the Eclipse Foundation: Zend is joining the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer. Zend is now proposing to lead a project focused on PHP within Eclipse

Source: Zend.com