Bush Speechalist Mockumentary

I saw this on Boing Boing, one of my favorite blogs. If you haven't seen it yet, this is quite funny, no matter your political leanings.

The eccentric Andy Dick plays Harlan McCraney. You may also recognize him from his News Radio days with Phil Hartmann.

Link to original Boing Boing posting.

Good book and author

I just finished reading Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell on my train ride home today. It was a very interesting read about the study and science behind making "snap judgments" -- when they work, when they fail, and some insight into how to become better at it and more attuned to the prejudices and stereotypes that sometimes cloud our judgment.

Being the quintessential "go with my gut" kinda guy, I was very into it.

I do have to say though that it wasn't quite as earth-shattering as his first book, The Tipping Point, which was a study of trends and the point at which they become mainstream or even epidemic.

BTW - Gladwell has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1996 and a former journalist at the Washington Post.

So, having blogged all that, I'm looking for my next book, any suggestions?

Free Web-based Instant Messaging Application

Some of you use instant messaging (AIM, MSN, Yahoo! IM, ICQ, etc.). And if you're like me, you're sometimes at a computer that isn't yours and doesn't have it installed. Well this tool solves that problem. It's way cool.


Meebo

Meebo allows you to chat on any of the major IM networks through a web browser. If you're interested, I'll let out my inner geek and tell you it uses a technology called AJAX. You'll be seeing more and more of it as many websites and web applications are using it. Microsoft has AJAX built into much of the functionality of Vista, its next version of Windows (more on that later).

Anywho, with Meebo, there's no registration required. Just sign into your IM account as you normally would. Try it out.

Inaugural Blog

Welcome to Billwildered, my first foray into the blogosphere. If this is your first experience with a blog, I thank you for making the leap. Those of you who are old hats at blogging, I thank you for taking the time to squeeze my musings into the deluge of your everyday lives.

My hope is that this blog will make you laugh (or at least smile), provide you with some fun and useful websites, and let you get a closer look into my life.

For the time being, I have set up Billwildered as an unpublished blog. So, it will not turn up in any searches. However, anyone with the link can view it, and you don't have to be a member of my blog to post comments. While I'm just full of myself enough to believe that what I have to say should matter to each of you, I'm not quite narcisistic enough (or so I think) to believe that I should be waxing rhapsodic to the general population just yet.

Having said that, if there is anyone who you think would enjoy reading my blog, please feel free to pass along the link (www.billwildered.blogspot.com).

Enjoy.