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According to morning reports by The Oregonian, Portland Mayor Sam Adams has announced he will not resign. How is it possible to ask the public for forgiveness for repeated, layered lying, then not to demonstrate remorse by resigning? Adams now shows himself a sad representative of baby boomer, Clinton era politics that hopefully will disappear in the new political climate. If he will not resign, then lets recall Sam Adams. Read the rest of this entry »

There are so many accusations flying around regarding the new, first openly gay mayor of Portland, Sam Adams. Any politician even allegedly accused of sleeping with someone who may have been underage is going to recall the stain left behind by one time Portland mayor and state governor Neil Goldschmidt. Oregon political leaders that once traded on having a relationship with Goldschmidt couldn’t move fast enough to distance themselves.

Mayor Sam Adams should resign as recommended by The Oregonian rather than submit to a recall because he lied in order to win the election that made him mayor of Portland. A recall is inappropriate as recalls function to question a seated politician who otherwise earned their position but subsequently failed to serve. Mayor Sam Adams lied in order to win an election. It isn’t the very short time in office for which he should be judged.

Sam, if you go for a recall – this will continue to haunt you for the rest of your life. By resigning, you can regain some of your political and personal integrity by starting again and letting the voters decide again, should you wish to run for office some time in the future.

President Obama’s inauguration speech finished a few minutes ago, and while I do not like to interject politics into my public writing, I would like to share a few thoughts on American unity, race and progress. President Obama’s message was entirely devoid of blame or rancor, either in the political sense of the last eight years or in the subtext of progress in race relations in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

As a consumer, I will not miss Circuit City as it closes its remaining 567 stores in the United States. But all software industry professionals should mourn its passing. Here’s how its closure impacts software industry professionals. Read the rest of this entry »

I am happy to say that Shade 3D is back with the release of Shade 9 through Mirye Software. You can download a 30 day trial of Shade 9 through Shadetrial.com. Shade is a powerful, professional 3D software with unique modeling, animation and rendering capabilities and available for Mac OS X and Windows. Read the rest of this entry »

Like most people in the tech industry, I work on multiple computers, and several of them use different anti-virus packages. On two of them, I have used Trend Micro’s Internet Security – but no more. Here is why its dangerous to use Trend Micro Internet Security . Read the rest of this entry »