Justin Carmony » Obama http://www.justincarmony.com/blog Web Designer & Software Engineer Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:30:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Obama $100 Million Budget Cuts http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2009/04/30/obama-100-million-budget-cuts/ http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2009/04/30/obama-100-million-budget-cuts/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:10:38 +0000 Justin Carmony http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/?p=416
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    • ]]>     Ok, I don’t want to do into depth on my opinion of how Obama is running the country, however being a programmer and I enjoy math, here is some food for thought.

    People can have a really hard time visualizing really big numbers: Million, Billion, Trillion. One of my favorite comics, xkcd, touches this concept:

    Just to put into perspective Obama’s annoucement a friend sent me this YouTube video:

    Its important to keep things in perspective, regardless of which party you belong to, or who you voted for. Had McCain won and came out with the exact same press conference, I’d hope everyone would call him out of it. Just think how ridiculous this is. Imagine if at work you were promised a $10,000 bonus at the end of the year, and then told you weren’t going to receive it due to budget issues. How irate would you be if your boss called you up and said “Hey, we can give you part of your bonus!”, you run to his office, and he hands you a dime. Just try to keep things in perspective, always.

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    ]]>     http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2009/04/30/obama-100-million-budget-cuts/feed/ 1     WhiteHouse.gov YouTube Channel Hacked? http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2009/01/30/whitehousegov-youtube-channel-hacked/ http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2009/01/30/whitehousegov-youtube-channel-hacked/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:08:05 +0000 Justin Carmony http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/?p=378
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    • ]]>     I’m not sure exactly what this is, but its strange. I wanted to add the whitehouse YouTube channel’s RSS feed to my Google Reader. I might not have voted for Obama, but I think he is using new technologies to communicate with people in a very good way. I’m excited for the precedence that he is setting in the government, and for future leaders, on how to leverage the Internet, video streaming, etc.

    When I added the RSS feed to my Google Reader, I saw a weird post titled “MPEG FOUR DOJ” with one view. Not sure how it got there, but I highly doubt it was published by Obama’s office.

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    This brings up one point that Obama’s administration is going to have to face. The whitehouse YouTube channel is has become a highly valuable target for people to hijack. So many groups, from the harmless to extreme, would love to have 5 minutes of fame by compromising the account and posting their own videos. There have been issues with Sara Palin’s email account during the election campaigns. It will be interesting to see how things will shake out.

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