because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 31st, 2008
Ever since switching my site’s back end over to Wordpress in late December I’ve had to use Camino or Firefox to edit or produce new postings to my site, as there was a bug in the TinyMCE implementation that Wordpress was using. Any entry edited via Safari had all of its <p> tags stripped out [...]
Posted in life, social issues on Mar 30th, 2008
For nearly nine years, beginning in 1990, I was very active as a martial artist. At the end of my active participation I had achieved the rank of nedan, or second degree black belt. I competed at local, state, and national levels. At my peak I placed third in the Men’s 35+ [...]
Posted in social issues on Mar 28th, 2008
There were two articles yesterday about anonymity online, and the potential good or bad that can result. Paul Stamatiou, a computational media senior at Georgia Tech, talked about the perils of anonymous users in social networks. He lists a couple of pros and cons:
Pros: No barriers to entry. If someone wants to get [...]
The company I work for has two buildings in downtown Kansas City. The primary location has its own underground garage with two levels of parking for those associates who work there. The garage isn’t large enough to accommodate everyone, so some associates are given a leased space in the public garage across the street. The [...]
Twice in recent months, Sibylle and I have discovered that prescriptions aren’t forever. Our oldest cat, Nekko, has diabetes and consequently gets insulin twice daily. The original prescription was labeled “99 refills,” which at roughly three months per fill, would last for more than 24 years.
Imagine my surprise to have a refill denied because it [...]
Posted in life on Mar 25th, 2008
My daily commute is twenty-two miles, each way. Except for several hundred yards downtown, between the exit ramp and the parking garage, and about a mile of surface streets in our neighborhood, all of that distance is done on Interstate highway. The first five or six miles are two-lane, and the rest is at least [...]
Posted in social issues on Mar 24th, 2008
In A Boy The Bullies Love to Beat Up, Repeatedly, on the New York Times web site, the story of Billy Wolfe is told. As I read through the story my own emotions were in turmoil. As a child all through out grade school, junior high, and the first couple years of high [...]
Posted in social issues on Mar 22nd, 2008
Sibylle, who is fascinated with how people learn, and in knowing and understanding the challenges some people face while trying to learn, shared with me tonight a video documentary from Richard Lavoie called How Difficult Can This Be? Mr. Lavoie takes a group of adults (educators and parents) and, through a series of carefully [...]
My posting about CFL bulbs and their hazards seems to have been well timed. On Slashdot today, there is a link to this MSNBC story about the growing concern in the environmental community about the safety of the bulbs in light of their mercury content.
And, from the Cool Tools site, there is this article about [...]
On 19 December 2007, United States President George W. Bush signed the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Among other provisions, that law sets efficiency standards for electric lights that will see the incandescent light bulb phased off the US market beginning in 2012. (via Wikipedia) This means that in just four years [...]
