http://virb.com/rafael Virb 2.0 (@rafael) en http://virb.com/rafael/posts/text/172784 here. (mosh.nokia.com) 2. In the entry blank, type in "ALLACCESS". 3. Bing! You're in. If you're interested in signing up, go through the steps. As I said, I don't have a Nokia. Once I get one, I'll be playing around with it. But for now, it looks interesting. I'd be willing to use it. ]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:47:22 -0700 http://virb.com/rafael/posts/text/172784 http://virb.com/rafael/posts/text/172748 hot. I know, because I went to Army basic training at Ft. Sill in Lawton, OK, and I was there from March through October of 1999--so I became disgustingly familiar with just how warm Oklahoma summers can be. And yet, you've got golfers wearing pants. And not just any pants--but dress pants. I don't care if they're made from fibers created by aliens from the planet Klepton in the 25th Century--they're pants. You have to only look at the golfers to realize what a ludicrous concept this is. I'm looking at one right now--he's got sweat stains on the back of his legs and...oh, good lord--his, uh, groin is rather darker than the rest of his pants. Yeah, there's a grown man trying to drain a 17-foot-putt who looks like he's had an accident. I see the folks at the Amateur titles wearing shorts. I see the women of the LPGA wearing shorts. So why can't the men wear them? ]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:36:49 -0700 http://virb.com/rafael/posts/text/172748 http://virb.com/rafael/posts/text/172742 Times I spoke with, that this event was rapidly becoming the progressive version of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). You had all kinds of DC power players attending--Simon Rosenberg, Mike Lux, folks like that--along with just about all of the folks who made progressive blogging a reality--folks like Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller and Jane Hamsher, and of course, Jerome Armstrong and the man for whom the event was named, Markos Moulitsas-Zuniga. That being said, I'm glad they're changing the name. Netroots Nation is much more reflective of what's going on here; while there were some people there whose involvement in this movement is limited to writing at DailyKos, you've got lots more who don't do much, if anything, at that blog. The name change won't change the fact that DK is the biggest online progressive community. It'll simply be more reflective of the movement. Some other things: Please, please, please--let's not have N-squared at a place like McCormick Place ever again. There were 2,000 conference attendees; but, thanks to the size of the conference center, you'd have been hard-pressed to see that. YK was stretched across what felt like three states, which meant that, by the end of the day, I was worn out from walking from panel to panel--and it seemed like that was a common condition. Also, both the conference center and hotel were ridiculously obnoxious--my sponsor paid almost $700 for my stay at the hotel, and for a conference focusing on the Internet, Internet access was curiously spotty, if not absent in my room. Anyway, these are quibbles. If you have a chance to attend, and you're a member of the progressive movement, you should. I got to see old friends, and meet new ones, and in the end, isn't that what these shindigs are all about?]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:23:21 -0700 http://virb.com/rafael/posts/text/172742