Archive for August, 2006



Some Exciting Explosions

I read this article on CNN titled “Blasts rock bomb recycling plant” that has an intro paragraph saying this:
A series of explosions and a fire at a plant where military bombs are disassembled forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 people from nearby schools and a jail, authorities said.

Previously, I diverged from the point of a post to talk about the webpages for the Democratic and Republican parties. I thought I would revisit that thought, adding the Libertarian party and (I’m trying not to laugh here) the Communist party. The basis of judgement was the W3 Markup Validation Service, which tells [...]

(Update: There is an online demo of gallery2 themes available now)
I’ve been playing around with Gallery (Gallery 2.1.1) lately, and I wanted to test out some of the themes. There are seven included with the default install of Gallery with none-too-descriptive names (e.g. “hybrid,” “siriux,” etc.). I did a quick Google search for [...]

Too bad I’m not talking about the river. Amazon.com used to be a great site, which started in a garage in Seattle, quickly growing into a Fortune 500 company. Unfortunately, the huge income hasn’t lead to the investment in good web designers or presidents/VP’s with any vision. I tell people regularly how [...]

Last night I was too lazy to roll off the couch, so I was stuck watching South Park. O’ the terror! Being forced to laugh as I once again see the Lord of the Rings episode in which the boys have to return a porno tape (though they don’t know that’s what it [...]