Blogger on Firefox

I can edit my GMail settings, labels and filters now, but now when I try to blog in Firefox, it explodes spectacularly.

John has a helicopter.

O.K., at this point he really just has parts. But 300 or so man hours from now he will have a two-place Rotorway helicopter.

Some days it is stunning...

how fast things are rolling in the blog/rss/digital photo realm. the addition of cross-platform WYSIWYG editing in blogger takes the cake for me. WYSIWYG in the browser on a single platform is hard enough. javascript fuels the revolution. thin clients will indeed inherit the earth. thank god I'm on the south beach diet.

Fit But You Know It

The Streets -- UK rap in maximum rotation on Sirius this week. Find it, listen to it.

Sunset on Center Street

Filling up with Shell V Power

Lunch Today

Arby's on the East Side was closed. They said they had equipment failure. I bet they found a head in one of the fryers for the potato cakes. Anyway, I swung back around on the highway and snagged a "Low Carby Ultimate BLT"

My Desk is Getting Full

I normally am "a laptop and nothing else on my desk" kind of guy, but I've been doing some site changes and other development this week.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Charge of the light brigade

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: "Researchers have linked all kinds of problems to the earlier generation of fluorescent lighting, including headaches, eyestrain, seasonal affective disorder and, according to one German study, stress. Workers under the lights were found to have higher levels of the stress hormones cortisol and adrenocorticotrophin in their blood."

Eminem, Shady Records & Interscope Joining Forces with SIRIUS

SIRIUS Satellite Radio: "Multi-platinum recording artist, producer and actor Eminem, along with Shady Records and Interscope Records, will begin airing a cutting-edge hip-hop music and lifestyle channel exclusively for SIRIUS Satellite Radio later this year."

"DJ Wayne Williams, put the record on."

Am I the only one who finds it strange that R. Kelly gives a shout-out at the start of his new single ("Happy People") to Wayne Williams?

November Elections Won't Be Delayed, Official Says

Reuters.com: "Individual states may suspend or reschedule elections if disaster strikes, but that would not change voting in other states, said DeForest Soaries, chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission." -- Good to hear some reassurance from somebody on this. Honestly, I was starting to freak out a little bit about this whole election-delaying business. At lunch today I started to plan subtle ways to accidently be out of the country around election time -- if there is a total meltdown, the family could chill in the south of France until things cooled off. My criteria -- the "smart people hideaway" needs to be fiercely independent (eliminating Canada and England), generally "free and democratic" (eliminating Russia, among others) and an established nuclear power.

The entire concept of letting Bush or Ridge delay the presidential election was an utterly disgusting trial balloon to even float in the first place. It was the work of dictators in waiting, not patriots. Can you imagine a similar scene in Germany in 1932 -- "so what would happen if the Reichstag were to get burned down?" Even Hitler didn't have the gall to reveal his dubious plots that far in advance.

The whole incident makes it appear that Bush has no intention of handing over power, regardless of what the voters may desire. It is all simply too personal. I miss the idea that most of what Bush does is designed to benefit his vague "base" -- the top 2% of all households by income or whatever measure you choose. I no longer believe that. I think his motives are uglier than that -- purely designed for the personal engorgement of a few dozen families rotating around the Bush/Saud/Bin Laden solar system.

Is it implausible that, lagging in the polls, Bush could have instigated a "delay scenario" through his Saudi connections? What is more important to Bush -- the lives of hundreds or thousands of Americans or retaining the White House? Honestly. Ask yourself.

It forces me to go back to 9-11-2001 again and ask -- who benefitted from the events of that day? Who got two years of bloated approval ratings? Who got two years of carte blanche on Capitol Hill, including the ability to mutilate the bill of rights and rob from the poor to give to the rich? Who abused the subsequent blind faith of the American people to declare war on a family enemy without provocation or meaningful congressional objection?

Who else has gained one thing from the initial attacks or the continuing "War on Terror?" It makes me wonder, is he just the luckiest schmuck who ever lived?

Google Acquires Picasa

Google Acquires Picasa -- and with it, Hello. I bought Picasa's flagship photo management program last month in a successful attempt to find the equivalent to iPhoto for a Windows XP box. After using it for a few days, I returned to the site to look for a way to buy stock in the company. Hello combines instant messaging with photo blogging and private photo sharing. Just as the purchase of Pyra/Blogger before it, there is more to this Google investment than we're seeing on the face of it.

Oakley’s MP3 sunglasses

Engadget: "a little bit of research reveals that the sunglasses only have enough room on them for 35 songs"

BarlowFriendz

John Perry Barlow: "...we Americans are hypnotizing ourselves into such mutually exclusive reality distortion fields that the Red tribe and the Blue tribe will eventually start behaving like Hutus and Tutsis if we continue sleep-walking into our separate media hallucinations."

Moments later, the beloved "Skateboard Buzz" would plunge into the sea. Adventuring for days, he reappeared last Sunday, delivered home by Grandma and Poppy. 

Lounging lakeside, Maddie checks out her manicure.  

Slate -- Toyota's subversive anti-car

From Slate -- Def Cab for Cutie - Toyota's subversive anti-car.: "seemingly about as square as a vehicle can be, with a sinister giant-shaver front end. It looks like an electrogothic cab of death! ...It's not cute. When I first saw one, I thought it was coming to ferry me across the river Styx. Room for one more inside, sir!"

NYT -- 1 in 6 Iraq Veterans Is Found to Suffer Stress-Related Disorder

The New York Times reports that 1 in 6 Iraq Veterans Is Found to Suffer Stress-Related Disorder, which gives me pause. In addition to potentially energizing global jihad, are we creating a new generation of Timothy McVeighs?

Self-portraiture at 40 MPH.  

a 30-second tour of Firefox...

tabbed browsing is awesome... importing cookies is sweet... no more having to look up passwords for WSJ and NYT... I keep one tab open on gmail... and then use additional tabs for other browsing... pop-up blocker is built-in... as is google search... oh, and by the way -- it is incredibly fast... control-T opens a new tab... hold down cntrol when clicking a link to open the link in a new tab... you can have a group in the bookmarks and open all of those bookmarks in their own tabs at once so if you know you'll be using 3 or 4 web sites to start every day, group them in one bookmark folder and use the open in tabs function