Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• Gay Officer: Why Military Chaplains Fear Gay Unions
• Census: US men narrowing the gender gap of old age
  (AP)
• Sony confirms new PlayStation 4 is “under way”
• An Actor Who Knows Start-Ups
• The Secret Lives of Outdoor Cats Revealed
• The Man Who Swims With Coelacanths
• The 19 Senators Who Approve Breaking The Internet To Protect Hollywood
• Urban Outfitters Rips Off Another Indie Artist
• Probably Bad News: Slowest News Day In History
• Senate clearing way to extend terror-fighting bill
  (AP)
• Amazon Launches ‘Mac Downloads’ Store
• Seismologists Tried For Manslaughter Due To Earthquake
• 90% Of Users Join Tumblr From Blogs, 85% Of Those Users Are Still Blogging A Week Later
• Babies Predict New and Complex Events
• Scientists detect Earth-equivalent amount of water within the moon
• Wash. girl, 15, accused of shooting dad with arrow
  (AP)
• Babies Are Capable of Complex Reasoning
• Ron Wyden: Puts Hold On PROTECT IP, Temporarily Withdraws Amendment On The PATRIOT Act
• Drain cover recall may close many public pools
• Google Wallet vending on Nexus S hands-on
• Missouri Officials Release List of Missing
• Farthest-ever explosion found at edge of cosmos?
  (AP)
• The 18 Senators Who Approve Breaking The Internet To Protect Hollywood
• The 19 Senators Who Approve Breaking The Internet To Protect Hollywood
• That’s Incredible! 9 Brainy Baby Abilities
• Redesigned Roofs Withstand Tornadoes and Hurricanes
• Justice Department Threatens To Ban Flights Out Of Texas If Texas Makes TSA Groping Illegal
• What a Jolt! Microbe Lives on Caffeine
• Wisconsin Judge Voids Collective Bargaining Law
• Dog Treat FAIL
• Wave of Alien Species Invade Mediterranean Sea
• Blacklists, ahoy! PROTECT IP Act sails on to Senate floor
• iPhone owner — turned vigilante — attacks wrong person after using Find my iPhone
• High Court: State can close businesses that hire illegals
• Electrons Are Near-Perfect Spheres
• Native x86 Android runtime will enable Android apps on Windows
• Bright Ideas
• Parking Ticket FAIL
• Fukushima To Become Nuclear Dump?
• Learn From My Fail: Just Add a Turtleneck and Chain
• John Perry Barlow Tells Copyright Maximalists That They’ve Got The Fundamentals Wrong
• Whale Sharks’ Shared Feast Sets Record
• May 26, 1908: Mideast Oil Discovered — There Will Be Blood
• Oddly Specific: So That’s Why They Exist
• This Kludge Get’s a AAA Rating
• Left FAIL
• Lessons Learned: How Tumblr Recovered from a Business Crisis (Teri Evans/Entrepreneur.com)
• CLASSIC: Suspect FAIL
• Privacy Is Not Secrecy; Debunking The ‘If You’ve Got Nothing To Hide…’ Argument
• "Space Archeology" Uncovers Lost Pyramids
• Japan’s Ricoh to cut 10,000 jobs over three years
  (AFP)
• Microsoft Previews Mango
• Lesson #970 – Size Matters
• Io: The Prometheus Plume
• EU Commission Proposes New IP Rules, With More Weight On Enforcement & Making ISPs Police The Internet
• The Eating Habits of Conservatives Versus Liberals [INFOGRAPHIC]
• May 26, 2011
• Barnes & Noble clarifies battery life on new Nook, calls out Kindle
• Freight train kills pedestrian in Naperville
• Major hedge fund lead says Microsoft’s Ballmer should quit
• Amazon intros ad-supported Kindle 3G for $164
• Xbox.com lists Ghost Recon: Future Soldier as ‘Better with Kinect’
• Google’s NYC partner event happens tomorrow, join the liveblog fun here live
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• 80 Years Later Edison Still Inspires
• Comcast testing all-IPTV to help TV on tablets, Xbox 360
• French “three strikes” anti-piracy software riddled with flaws
• Emanuel 1st Chicago mayor on stand in 41 years
• Pay Attention but Don’t Panic
• Citrix teasing GoToManage remote support app for iPad
• China Alleged To Use Prisoners In Lucrative Internet Gaming

Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.

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These are purely my own flaws and thoughts.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what I want to do and where I want to go, long term. And I got to thinking, long term, I always seem to be thinking long term, not really short term, not really mid-term, but long term. Everything in the future, never the present. I know this is completely different than most others, and I’m not entirely sure why I take this type of view over any other, nor do I know exactly how I managed to develop this viewpoint.

The goofy thing about the whole thing is that I have also noticed that I tend to know where things are going to end up, given the evidence. Let me show you an example. Now, I usually don’t write about work much, but in this case it’s pertinent.

The City of Aurora built a fiber network to replace the one that they’ve been leasing from Comcast. Seeing as, at the time we had only a single 1.5Mbps T-1 lines between our Main Library and each of our three buildings, the city putting in fiber was going to boost that percentage up 666% to 1Gbps. This type of bandwidth is completely unimaginable without spending a ton of money a month than most non-profits would be able to afford.

As soon as I found out that we, the library, were in the city’s plan for fiber, I already knew where we were going to end up, what were we going to be able to do, and what we were going to be able to change and consolidate.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I do think about short-term items, and can easily focus on short-term tasks and even mid-term projects and the like, but I guess I’m just more of an end-goal type of person.

The biggest downside to being an end-goal person is the fact that you can easily get discouraged when things start to become a bit to daunting in the short-term, it’s difficult to pull back and look at the long-term again. Since you’re not used to the issues that come up with short-term problems.

I don’t know, I could be entirely wrong, it’s been known to happen.

Tags: flaws, long-term thinking, thoughts