We’re still out of power at my place, thanks to Gaston. And, in South Carolina, being without power means being without air conditioning, which is essential to life out here. But we’re getting by. And the power company promises to have us hooked up by the end of they day (we’ll see about that).
If you are a liberal, you will probably enjoy this from Berkeley’s famous linguistics professor. Here’s a tasty quote:
And the “war on terror,” of course, never ends. There’s no peace treaty with terror. It’s a prescription for keeping conservatives in power indefinitely. In three words “war on terror” they’ve enacted vast political changes
One of my wife’s classmates has a cool photography site that’s worth a look. I also noticed that my photographer/graphic designer friend, Benny has redesigned benzografx.com.
This rant on what Google knows about you is so stupid I hesitate to even link it. Let’s look at it line by line:
* Everything you search for using Google
Let’s see, you mean to tell me that if I put info in a form and press submit that the server will receive that information? You [...]
Okay, it’s not so bad, but I’m busy. Too busy to do much else but work. As I’ve been working, I’ve found a few useful things to share, including this very nice color scheme picker, a handy, one-page list of CSS properties, and, best of all, the amazing web developer plugin/extension for firefox (a real [...]
The good news: my internet connectivity at home is back up and, in fact, is much faster than it has ever been previously. The bad news: a recent round of bad weather knocked out my linksys router and one of my laptops (my beloved Dell Latitude LS). I pulled the hard drive and mouted it [...]
NYT obit (free registration required). Wikipedia has a list of his works and a brief bio. I found a few poems online (text and real audio). There are several others here (warning: pop-ups). I can’t remember which book of his I read long ago.
Sorry for the lack of updates. I just got back from Fayetteville, Arkansas after a long trip to take care of some family business. I’ll give a full update and share some pictures when time permits.
I use Cygwin quite a lot, but I never tried printing from it until last night. I had assumed it would be difficult; it’s not. On Unix/Linux systems, you can print by piping commands to lpr (i.e. “local printer”). So, for instance, printing the results of ls -a (list all files in the current directory) [...]
First off, I just noticed that Ron Velosky’s excellent book, Sight Reading for the Bass now has its own web site. Ron, who sent me a review copy of this book years ago, died far too young. But he managed to write what I believe to be the best book on the subject. So, if [...]