Prolific Programmer on the Internets!

I don't hide my politics on this blog. In my opinion, the Republicans incessantly whinge about government incompetence when standing for election. Having achieved power, they proceed to prove themselves right. The Democrats are only marginally better. So, when people like Andrew Feinberg go on incessently about how Congress has an impact on our industry without convincing me. But, he has convinced Robert. Indeed, Robert is now gushing about what Andrew arranged for him. Now, here's my view and I can be, nay have been, criticised for it, but here it is: government actions impact an industry with the provision that you can't move. As an generation-0 immigrant myself, with a perfectly decent place to call home, I don't accept it. See, I'm part of the generation E, the world is my playground, and therefore no one country's government has any detrimental impact on me. I will grant you that the US government has a bigger impact than most (I mean who gives a rat's posterior if Zimbabwe bans the BBC vis a vis the US wanting to bomb al-Jazeera). You need to expand your purview and remove your arbitrary restriction and you'll realise that government actions don't matter half as much as the government says they do.

Scoble announces a blog redesign, adding colour and links to his social media properties the right-hand side. I like!

Scoble gets the Esler treatment. Not quite as good as Paxman, but Robert is a good friend of mine.

The Scobleizer announces that he's blocked on facebook. Why? From the horse's mouth:

My account has been "disabled" for breaking Facebook's Terms of Use. I was running a script that got them to keep me from accessing my account.

I wonder if he's working with Hugh to move his social graph off Facebook. Inquiring minds want to know.