I warn you dear friends, that what you are about to read may be a bit more polemic than my usual political fare. These days the so-called Conservative Revolution has made its waves all over the nation. Well and good, I say, especially when it comes to issues of personal responsibility, laissez-faire economics (although the… Continue reading this entry
This is how much it costs to buy a soda at the National Zoo. How magnanimous of them to accept $5 bills… (See this picture on Flickr.)
I took this picture outside my home, at an evening where there seemed to be far more contrails than usual overhead. (See this picture on Flickr.)
Are we really ready for it? Two years ago when I was using B2 I, like many, understood the folly of generating individual HTML files that filled up server hard drive allocations. Later on we saw comment spammers shutting down entire servers by turning the rebuild process against its owners. We also saw hundreds upon… Continue reading this entry
And I know that time’s gonna fly; And I’m never gonna tell you everything I’ve got to tell you, But I know I’ve got to give it a try… Or, how to catch attention when one’s running dry of creative juices. Best suggestion? Write a polemic on how a nation that doesn’t strictly comply with… Continue reading this entry
BFT is now on WP, courtesy of yours truly.
Chalk it up to bias, I guess, or maybe the need to make a better buck, but there will always be a reason why I give more credence to Time magazine than I do newsweek, and why even more credence is gained with every issue. Time’s issue this week offered, on its cover, a journalistic… Continue reading this entry
Out of the many, many pictures from my day at the zoo, these three pictures caught my eye the most and I’m giving them a post of their own: This gray seal takes a break on its rock platform. I got this shot of a pelican on the rocks holding still long enough to be… Continue reading this entry
I’m tired of politicking, and the break that I took this Labor Day weekend was a welcome refuge from Hurricane Katrina blamefests, demands for heads to roll, and other nasty stuff. As beautiful days go, Monday was rare: bright light, a partly cloudy sky with no hazy cover, and a huge drop in humidity all… Continue reading this entry
I decided to revive the definitive color scheme that I kept for more than a year. It only gets better with time. This is Version 5 of Ark.