Archive for January, 2009
More good news for the first week of President Obama. WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order ending the ban on federal funds for international groups that promote or perform abortions, officials told The Associated Press on Friday. More details at: Obama to reverse foreign abortion rule – White House- msnbc.com
Ian Robinson in Politics |
More change we can believe in US regulators have cleared the way for the world’s first study on human embryonic stem cell therapy. The move comes three days after the inauguration of President Barack Obama who has been a strong supporter of embryonic stem cell research. Full story at: BBC NEWS | Health | Green [...]
Ian Robinson in Politics, Science |
Another test of Twitme after changing the text that is included in the Twitter notifications.
Ian Robinson in Blogging, Weblogs |
If everything works okay this post should generate a tweet on Twitter notifying people following me about a new post to the Soapbox. EDIT: to see if edits generate Twitter notifications.
Ian Robinson in Blogging, Weblogs |
David Cameron gave a speech today on Progressive Conservatism. Still have to read it. I’ll comment on it if required after I read through it. You can read the whole thing at the URL below. David Cameron: Making progressive conservatism a reality From: The Conservative Party | News | Speeches | David Cameron: Making progressive [...]
Ian Robinson in Politics |
This is brilliant news. Obama promised it on the campaign trail but it’s good to see it happen. This does not mean that all the people in the prison will just be turfed out the gates. Nor should it. It means that those that have charges to answer will be tried in proper courts with [...]
Ian Robinson in Politics |
This entry will be a place to find the new hardware and software that gets released this week to coincide with Macworld 2009 and CES 09. Check back over the next week or so as this page gets updated with stuff that catches my eye. Productivity Applications Apple iLife ’09 – Latest version of the [...]
Ian Robinson in Computing, Macintosh, Technology |
Just want to wish everyone who stumbles upon this blog a Happy 2009. If you want to be where the action is online in 2009 joint Twitter. I think 2009 is going to be very historic for several reasons. Number 1 being the inauguration of Barack Obama. The fact that he is African American is [...]
Ian Robinson in Atheism, General, Science |