Other cool prizes, XBox 360, apparel, a car, a rolling alarm clock, spywatch. is the only thing you can win. :( Sorry, your intrepid blogger needs to read contest rules more closely.

What’s really slick is Rafflecopter. To sign up you follow and like the various accounts and pages and step it up with an embeddable blog post.  Hopefully they let me in on the limited signup. Keep an eye on Rafflecopter, I have  a good feeling about this company, their product is slick.

Enter the contest at http://jessicagottlieb.com/2011/12/xbox-kinect-bundle-giveaway/

I’m also shopping (over-analyzing) for a truck. Getting hungry, go to Teriyaki and pop into Radio Shack  to check out phones. Lo and behold, Samsung Galaxy S II $99 for AT&T customers eligible for an upgrade.

Waiting was over, I had my credit card out in minutes.

In short I love my new phone. Thinner, bigger screen, faster (3GS was slowing with every iOS update), I was only concerned about my sizable iTunes library. Lots of music, a couple of apps, but nothing major.

Then it’s 10¢ Android Apps : 8-) hooray! This is in celebration of their 1,000,000,000 download, and according to the Google Blog  there are more coming.

Looking forward to Pocket Minecraft.

Looking forward to Pocket Minecraft.

Can we impeach Ben Bernanke? This is egregious. Crony capitalism at its worst.

Reminds me of my old roommate and current good friend, Jason. He loves old Honda motorcycles and usually seemed to have a couple around that looked like this.

Has anyone else ever seen this before?

Another good example of Congress in lockstep with the main stream media companies. Is this really just to stop illegal downloading?

Sure movies and albums cost money to produce, and I am fully in support of that. But it would take more than an act of Congress to stop downloading, more like a miracle. Congress hasn’t even shown that they understand how the Internet works, they have no business regulating it.

It is the opinion of the writer that copyrights (and probably patents) should expire after 30 years. That is plenty of time to protect your creative work and capitalize on it.

No one own our collective experience, or culture, even if it does include Mickey Mouse and the Beatles, it’s not like they haven’t made their money back on the original investment.

Here’s a post from Matt Cutts, of “the” Google that begat this post with his clever call to action/guilt-trip.

NFL highlight from 2011 Week 10, Arizona Cardinals vs Philadelphia Eagles

Adobe had been hedging its bet on Flash by adding HTML5 elements in Dreamweaver and Illustrator, so you can see that Adobe saw this as somewhat inevitable. They knew all along that Flash was a bad product and for the most part always had been a processor hog, contained security flaws and was a proprietary system that was no longer necessary for streaming video or doing funny animations on a website.

I don’t use Dreamweaver anymore, and even when I did I thought that much of the features were not intuitive or particularly useful. It also generates some clunky code. I don’t use Flash, but I have used HTML5 and having an open standard is ultimately better for developers and users. Steve Jobs was the best known critic of Flash, but he was not alone.

Although HTML5 may not have gotten a boost with iOS not supporting Flash, it was rather obstinate of Jobs to not allow it on Apple’s mobile platform. Was Flash too much for an early iPhone to handle? Possibly, depends on your threshold for what you consider to be performance.

Flash is dead. Back in the early days of the Internet you needed it for multimedia, you just don’t need it any more. HTML5 will do everything that Flash did, except faster.