Quotes of the Day

You have two choices for today's quote.
They rode against the railroads,
And they rode against the banks
And they rode against the governor
Never did they ask for a word of thanks
-Frank and Jesse James, Warren Zevon
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
- Susan Sontag

Creating Passionate Users

I really like this blog. It generally talks about doing such a great job in making software that your customers are passionate about what you do. Anyone who works at Apple, say, should understand that creating passionate users is a reasonable goal.

The current post proposes that creating sotware is like dating. So, I get tips for how to be during and after work.

Plamegate: Worse than Watergate, But not as bad as MonicaGate

Kay Baily Hutchison's Press Secretary, apparently with insight on future indictments, says Plamegate isn't as bad as Monicagate.

Arianna Huffington says (and documents) that Cheney, Rove, Bush and Libby (in order of importance to the administration) have clearly lied to the American public, if not under oath.

Plamegate: Worse than Watergate: "But what they were covering up was much more than the outing of Valerie Plame. They were covering up the way the White House had used lies and deception to lead us into a war that was reckless and unnecessary -- what Lt. Gen. William Odom, National Security Agency director under Reagan, has called 'the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.'"

Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter, to Kay

Kay Bailey Hutchison, putting principle above all else.

Quoted, in the NYT:
Ms. Hutchison said she hoped "that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars."

A simple Google search for "Kay Bailey Hutchison Clinton Perjury" leads us to:
In 1999, however, she stood with Republicans in voting to remove President Clinton for grand jury perjury and obstruction of justice in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.