Archive for May, 2003

Detaxification

Saturday, May 17th, 2003

Daily Kos paints quite an accurate picture of the real costs of tax cuts. Fewer tax dollars to the feds means more to the states and, in the end, fewer services. It doesn't matter if Bush cuts your federal taxes if your property and sales taxes climb, costing you hundreds of ...

Good Reading

Friday, May 16th, 2003

Nita The new apartment (yes, another new apartment) is the usual carpet and lino, with one lovely exception. Hardwood in the kitchen and dining area. Geek By 10:15 by my clock, it was amazing, and several times on my walk home I saw the moon, and each time I stopped to ponder. Nothing ...

Visual Mode

Thursday, May 15th, 2003

As you can see, I've added a still image component to the Frankly sidebar. Larger images are available by clicking. I'll probably add new images every few days, building a collection, then script a routine to randomize them. This addition is, in part, because there's a rescheduled trip to Japan in ...

Matrix

Thursday, May 15th, 2003

I finally visited the Matrix Reloaded site this morning. I'll admit that it took me a couple of viewings to really grow attached to the first Matrix. Really, it took viewing the video on DVD with the sound at window-rattling levels. That made me a convert. The site for today's ...

Blogosphere

Thursday, May 15th, 2003

A few months ago, I made mention of an interesting new entry in my referrer logs - blogosphere.us. At the time, it was in an early development stage. One of the developers was kind enough to comment on the entry and was, for a fact, pretty darn nice in expressing ...

A Quiet Revelation

Monday, May 12th, 2003

I had a bit of an unexpected revelation this afternoon. I checked the Lockergnome site to see if a new issue of Penguin Shell had been posted. No new issue yet, but I did note that it's gone to a Tuesday-only publication schedule. Since I was subscribed under my now-gone ...

Career Ending

Sunday, May 11th, 2003

My guess is that Jayson Blair might now find the money spent on a degree in journalism to be a waste. Outside of the Podunk Daily News, I doubt that he'll find a career in journalism anywhere in the world. The New York Times has gone to extraordinary measures to set ...

Rolling

Friday, May 9th, 2003

The time is getting away from me these days. With my head in uptime, it seems like hours pass without notice. I'm shocked to look at my desktop clock and see that three or four hours have slipped away. But the content is filling up, the comments are coming in ...

Near uptime

Thursday, May 8th, 2003

uptime is, well, up. Let's call it a beta for now. After the push and shove of the past week or so, I collapsed on the couch last night when I should have been rebuilding templates. There are still some holes in uptime, but they'll be filled in the next ...

Voodoo Driving

Tuesday, May 6th, 2003

Have you ever been surprised by how your voice sounds outside of your own head? Shocking. [ 600k - requires an .mp3 player ]