Archive for September, 2005

  • Sign the Petition for Decent Pay in the Gulf Coast - September 29th, 2005

    • I thought you might be interested in this Working Families e-Activist Network petition to protect workers wages in the Gulf Coast region.
    In his first act after the storm, Bush issued an executive order taking wage protections away from construction workers who will rebuild the Gulf Coast.
    The Bush administration also is using the disaster to [...]

  • More Picasa Kudos - September 29th, 2005

    • I’ve been extolling the virtues of Google’s Picasa software for some time now. Here’s another good and interesting feature. I’ve mentioned that Picasa includes a not-half-bad image editor, with some pretty nice features. What I hadn’t realized until recently is that changes made in Picasa are non-destructive, leaving the original file untouched for use in [...]

  • What is it With Me and Tires? - September 27th, 2005

    • Yesterday was a pretty convoluted day. Work in the morning for Mr. Z, the train guy, the aforementioned luncheon faisco, and then on to the afternoon. For a while, I putzed around in the basement, and loaded the van with all the goodies I had to return to a couple of friends/associates/colleagues (the rented recording [...]

  • Crab Shanty = Crap Shanty - September 27th, 2005

    • Yesterday, I went to a luncheon at the Crab Shanty in Ellicott City, MD. The Crab Shanty is, allegedly, one of the better seafood restaurants in town. I will not be going back.
    As we went as a group, and had limited time because of working schedules, we pre-ordered our food last week. Still, nothing had [...]

  • POSTPONED — Mango Project Demo Recording - September 24th, 2005

    • Geren will be recording and engineering a demo CD for The Mango Project.
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  • Google and Page Ranking - September 24th, 2005

    • I found this interesting article on how Google ranks pages. The cat’s out of the bag, folks!
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  • Going to The Moon: Orphans Preferred - September 22nd, 2005

    • Yes, it’s true. NASA plans to go back to the moon, and beyond to Mars, with a target set for sometime in 2018. ABC News’ Michael Malone shares his insights …
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  • Keeping the Peace? - September 19th, 2005

    • via the web
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    This is the result of a high-speed police chase that got out of hand. The car (Honda) hit by the cruiser was not the suspects’ car. Fortunately, nobody died, although two of the three occupants of the car received numerous cuts and bruises requiring stitches, and one has a back and neck injuries. [...]

  • Illustrator Alternative - September 19th, 2005

    • via e-mail
    Looking for an alternative to Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw? Then try Inkscape, an open source alternative that’s freely available for Windows, Linux and MacOS-X.
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  • Plans for the day … - September 18th, 2005

    • As usual, there’s just too darned much to do around here.
    Today’s plans include: Church, breakfast and grocery shopping, followed by cleaning up the basement. I also want to work on getting my On30Guy web site converted over to WordPress/Gallery2, work on the On30XChange web site, work some on pictures from our trip to the Ren [...]

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