I’ve been unwilling to read the Washington Post for some time as it seems to have gone far downhill in recent years, but every now and then a real gem of an article, story, or opinion piece shows up that drags my attention back to the Post again… This is one such story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/14/AR2009081401495_pf.html (sorry […]
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Rodrigo y Gabriela are in Baltimore on October 24th, and in Philadelphia and New York City this fall as well. I highly recommend going to see them, and think we may be going to the show in Baltimore. Search YouTube to get some samples, or just check out this track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FXOd97CtnQ
I love this generalization: “Democrats protest the use of taxes to kill people, Republicans protest the use of taxes to save people.” http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8140/leftvsconservatards.png Hat tip to Waldo.
Thermostats say 93F in the shade here, and humid… Summer is definitely here at last. We got nearly a bushel of cucumbers and summer squash from the garden today; and I lost about a gallon of sweat whilst bringing in the harvest, some tomatoes, and staking up the tomato vines that had sagged to the […]
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I got asked last night as a political junkie what I thought of the Healthcare Bill tying up our congress-critters and the news cycle… I had to confess I did not know much about it as I was focused on other issues I considered to be more critical to our great nation. I still feel […]
This is probably old news for web propellor heads out there; but if you are diagnosing website problems you should be using Firebug for Firefox and Web Inspector for Safari. They are amazing tools for measuring download times for every object on a page, analyzing the objects on that page, figuring out where the objects […]
Tagged Firebug, Firefox, Safari, web, Web DesignFor those who have been wondering what I have been up to since I got laid off at Project Playlist, some of the results are public now. This morning we launched a new, interim, corporate website for Neustar. I am not responsible for the content, just part of a team that deployed it to production […]
Tagged drupal, ez publish, lamp, web cms, Web Design, workI have been listening to old The Babylon Podcast episodes on my commute to work, slowly catching up and through them I discovered a really good fan-fiction audiodrama set in the Babylon5 universe during the succession of Earth colonies and Babylon5 from Earth Alliance. The audio drama is called “Three Edged Sword” in honor of […]
