wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

Month: August, 2004

Gaston and me…

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).

George Lakoff’s latest…

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

I hate james davis

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.

Paranoid fools vs Google

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 [...]

New freelance eating my lunch

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 [...]