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NPR is now reporting Obama may end up with 3 more delegates over Clinton in Texas voting.

I say we should just go to the popular vote and rid us of the caucuses, super delegates, electoral votes and all that crap. If it’s such a great idea did we force this crazy system on Iraq when we finally got them to hold elections?

Someone Californicated this up.

I’m not sure what’s up with Apple’s browser Safari. I visited the iPhone Dev Center to learn a few tricks so I could create a couple of little iPhone apps but the dumb page won’t display in Safari. I’m using the latest version on Leopard and it won’t work. But Mozilla’s Firefox works just fine as you can see that it renders the page perfectly. What’s the problem Apple?

The front window above is Apple’s site on Firefox. The back window is a blank white page on Apple’s Safari web browser.

Just how long is it going to take Verizon Wireless to release the Palm Treo 755p smartphone? Both Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone are kicking-ass yet it’s been over two years since the release of the Treo 650p on Verizon Wireless. Yeah there’s the 700p which has been a dog of a phone until Palm finally released a proper firmware that past week but that model should be phased-out by now.

My Treo 650p has served me well, has taken a beating and kept on ticking but with almost 3x the memory, 4x the internet speed and ability to use memory cards bigger than 2GB I’m ready to move up to the 755p. But Verizon Wireless won’t release it, Sprint has but not VZW. They even have the fake 755p display phones in the stores but none of the real goods to sell.

Come on Verizon Wireless, my 2 year contract is up and switching to AT&T or Sprint is looking better everday you delay this phone.

Palm needs to get into gear too if they want to continue to compete in the smartphone business. They probably killed their Foleo line of laptop-like computers because rumor has it that Apple is going to come out with a ultra-lightweight laptop. There’s no way the Foleo would be able to compete with that if it’s about the same size and weight.

Just when things seem to be going good my laptop’s graphics have gone wonky. It’s not the LCD screen or operating system as you can see I can actually take a screen capture via software of the problem. It’s pretty annoying and the only workaround is to run a utility to throttle down the red channel in the display to make the bars go away, but then the display doesn’t show any red making things off-colored.

One thread in the Apple discussions says it’s the main logic board that’s bad. So it’s either that or the graphics card. Hopefully the display won’t totally go out.

The CNN website has an excellent contribution by Roland S. Martin (hit this link) about how he saw Don Imus’ comment as more sexist than racist. Martin also wrote, Don’t try to make this whole matter about the ridiculous rants made by rappers. I deplore what’s in a lot of their music and videos, but hip-hop is only 30 years old. So you mean to tell me that sexism in America only started in 1977?

Yet Saturday CNN Headline News was running a video called Hip-Hop, Imus and hypocrisy? said, “Young fans of Rap and Hip-Hop are more likely to have problems with alcohol, drugs and violence.” This according to the Prevention Research Center.

But the video piece was irresponsible in that it didn’t identify what magical standard Hip-Hop music is being measured against. So Hip-Hop music listeners are more likely to use drugs and other stuff than who? Folks who listen to Reggae music? Country music? Jawaiian? Classical? Alternative? Heavy Metal?

Talk about a generation gap. Haven’t we heard folks make music the easy target before? Judas Priest? Black Sabbath? The Beatles? Elvis?

I listen to Hip-Hop music and I know others who do and haven’t been on crime sprees. I don’t listen to and agree with all Hip-Hop music but I also don’t listen to all rock, folk, alternative and other music too (sorry Andi and Jim, I’m not a big Dave Matthews fan).

Stop playing the blame-game and make people take responsibility for their own actions. I never listened to Imus and if he has that many fans he will find an audience again in the future. It’s about money and had the sponsors of his show not pulled out he might still be working but those sponsors didn’t want to chance the public outcry or a boycott of their products.

Sexism and racism hurts people taking it and as Don Imus found out in a very public way it hurts the ones giving it too.

*UPDATE* Here’s the press release from the center. Folks, looks like if your kids listen to Rap, Hip-Hop, Techno or Reggae music you better lock them up. And you can do that as you drink your wine and listen to classical music.