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What Some People Think

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Last night on 60 Minutes, Katie Couric kept referring to “Some people.” She said that “some” were saying the Edwardses were courageous, and “others” were saying they were callous and ambitious. I kept waiting for John or Elizabeth Edwards to ask her who “some people” were exactly, but they didn’t. …Couric quoted John Edwards’ remark earlier in the week – that he was in the race “for the duration,” and asked him, “How can you say that, Senator Edwards, with such certainty? If, God forbid, Elizabeth doesn’t respond to whatever treatment is recommended, if her health deteriorates, would you really say that?” Thank you, Katie, for asking that question. The world could not have survived had you not asked it. Of course, “Some people” were undoubtedly thinking it. And it would have been a tragedy not to have given voice to that thought, wouldn’t it? Or would it? -Nora Ephron@HuffPost

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Waaaay Back

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My last post, on who I was when 18 years old, made me think of what my site used to look like. I miss some of those designs. Actually, the one I miss most was one I never really managed to get working, where the top looked like a post-it note and the whole page was designed to work like it was a piece of notebook paper. It sounds cheesy but I would have got it to look subtle. Anyway, working with blogger at the time was just too hard. Now I just don’t have enough time/patience. Maybe someday.

But look at Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine for sortroom.net. It’s amazing the changes! Most interesting to me is how some of my earlier designs looked a lot busier than my current or at least recent ones. It’s hard to make design look simple and yet put a lot of information out there. That is always my biggest challenge: not to give myself a headache!

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Apple up on the day..

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They’ve been backdating stock options. Slap on the hand coming. The company is restating financials by $84 Million. Appleinsider has the story. The stock was 80.87 on the close last night and is now sitting, at 11AM EST, at 85.04. That’s quite a jump. ‘Lire la suite’ as they say: Google Finance AAPL

In other news, my family are going skiing. We’re leaving in about an hour. I’m looking forward to it so much. This Christmas has been fun but uneventful. Nothing really that anyone would want to read about and hence, I haven’t written about it. I assume that’s cool. Belgium beckons when Switzerland has finished. Straight from one to the other which means big bags to lug about through the whole trip.

UPDATE:

I do have to say, what with the announcement of the new iPhone and so forth, it’s rather amazing how the stock is up, currently, $7.10, which is 8.3%. That’s just since the start of trading today. Of course over the last five years the stock has risen over 80 dollars, which is 681 percent!

Just so you know.

Google Finance: AAPL

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The Weekend to End Breast Cancer starts tomorrow

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Lets make a weekend to fight all cancers. Don’t leave the unknown, the unpopular or the unsexy behind. Breast cancer is highly visible, but lets not forget ovarian, colon, liver, testicular, lung, or skin cancer. We’re all at risk and for some reason Cancers are no less common then decades ago, so lets not forget to fight them all and fight by seeing the big picture through each laboratory microscope lens and petri dish.

But if Breast Cancer can be overcome, think what a boost that would be for all other research, for all other sufferers. May the weekend commence!

Sorry about the double posting of this item overnight, for some reason it looked like my Dreamhost-server was having problems… It’s back now.

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