Salah Al Bloushi went home this week

Last Updated on Friday, 20 October 2006 02:51 Written by Steve Friday, 20 October 2006 02:51

Who is Salah Al Bloushi? He’s a Bahranian who until October 15th had been held at Guantanamo Bay by us, the United States of America. He was held for nearly five years. He was never charged with anything.

We were all told Salah Al Bloushi was at Gitmo because he was a dangerous terrorist who needed to be kept locked up to keep the world safe. But we let him out after 5 years. Why? Was he actually not dangerous? Then why did we take 5 years of his life? If he’s a terrorist (which I doubt based on what Josh has told me) why would we let him out even after 5 years? There is no explanation for our behavior at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Just like Olberman said the other night, we were wrong locking up the pacifists in Wilson’s time, we were wrong interring the Japanese in Roosevelt’s time, and we’re wrong in how we’re dealing with terrorists today.

My firend Josh is a lawyer who helped Salah Al Bloushi get home, as well as 5 of his countrymen last year. Thanks, Josh, for doing great work standing up to our
misguided government–we really need folks like you right now.

Salesforceuser.com: Training video on using tasks

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 October 2006 07:23 Written by Steve Thursday, 19 October 2006 07:23

Peter Mitton over at SalesforceUser.com has published his first training video: Creating and Finding Tasks. Peter is going to pass on some of the trainings he’s developing from his experience as a Salesforce.com user and administrator. Check out his first video if you want to learn a bit about Tasks and Events in Salesforce.com and how to use them.

Thanks Peter!

My Dreamforce Slides

Last Updated on Monday, 16 October 2006 03:38 Written by Steve Monday, 16 October 2006 03:38

Check out this cool service for posting Powerpoint slides on the web. SlideShare takes you ppt file, converts it to flash, then makes in embeddable on your site for viewing. Here are my slides from one of my Dreamforce sessions:

Cool tidbit–the files are hosted on Amazon’s S3 service. Check out the slides shown next to a video of a session on Salesforce’s site.