Jan 22nd, 2009 @ 9:43 am

“After running the most tech-savvy campaign in history that made use of everything from social networking sites to text messages, staffers are discovering that they have to wade through a swamp of bureaucracy just to use sites like Facebook and that White House computers are outdated. Perhaps the hardest pill to swallow is that instant messenger programs are verboten under the new rules, forcing staffers to (gasp) call each other up to communicate. “It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said of the White House’s tech capabilities.”

Washington Post

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Horses and Shallow Lakes

Joshua Tuscan spills some thoughts here and they collect in a pool. I live in Philadelphia, btw.

I once cried because I couldn't draw a tree the way I saw it in my head... Granted, it was kindergarten, but it was a defining moment. One of my lifelong goals has been to ride a horse through a shallow lake, seriously, it's in my grade school journal. I lived in Barbados for a while where I almost lost my toe, which has stood as a metaphor in my life for that time. I watch a lot of movies and sometimes I fear that it is cutting into my ability to learn foreign languages. Oh yeah, I like to write beautiful, validated code. (More/Less)

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