I installed the WordPress for iPhone application today, and this post is the result.
There are a lot of small drawbacks, but I like what they’ve put together so far. Some of the drawbacks come from the limitations of the iPhone itself, cut and paste is an obvious example here.
I like that photo attachments are included (kevin is attached.) The draft writing is easy, at least until you need to start dealing with HTML.
You can also view and edit a certain number of previous posts, which will be handy if I ever decide to fix the title misspellings.
As an aside, I just saw the commercial for Tropic Thunder and now I fear for the future.
Anyhow, as the misspellings in the title suggest, blogging on the iphone is by no means an expedient technique. I corrected spelling in the body, but the iPhone keyboard is still a drag. Thankfully the spelling correct/autocomplete helps speed things up. Oh, as another aside, how is it possible that I’ve missed the caps lock function all this time? Sigh.
Unfortunately, the experience was not without a crash of the app, which is a bummer. But an iPhone 1.0 app is like a 0.67 app everywhere else, so I fully expect improvements.
“Most of the world’s population today,” Johnson writes, “is made up of descendants of those early beer drinkers, and we have largely inherited their genetic tolerance for alcohol.”
I was about to reply to my last post (thanks for the discussion) but this George Will article crossed my desk, and I thought it was relevant to the discussion. Oh, and this:
Johnson suggests, not unreasonably, that this explains why certain of the world’s population groups, such as Native Americans and Australian Aborigines, have had disproportionately high levels of alcoholism: These groups never endured the cruel culling of the genetically unfortunate that town dwellers endured. If so, the high alcoholism rates among Native Americans are not, or at least not entirely, ascribable to the humiliations and deprivations of the reservation system. Rather, the explanation is that not enough of their ancestors lived in towns.
Nobody in the antipoverty community and nobody in city leadership was going to welcome the news that the noble experiment that they’d been engaged in for the past decade had been bringing the city down, in ways they’d never expected.
-American Murder Mystery, TheAtlantic.com
A long article, but an important story regarding public poverty policy. I hadn’t read anything that articulated this before, and it explains what I’ve seen happen to Madison over the last 15 years. I feel so uneducated about the issues surrounding poverty, that I don’t even know what to say about it. If decades of government neglect followed by another decade or so of government intervention have failed, what can we expect in the future? We can’t just give up.
I don’t have any answers, of course. My only suggestion would be to de-fund our anti-narcotics programs and spend that money better elsewhere. But that’s my solution for everything.
