April 2004
7 posts
Memory Hole
A website filed a freedom of information request last year to get photographs of coffins arriving at Dover Airforce Base. They filed the request last year and recently received the photos.
They posted them and have gone down since being mentioned in the New York Times.
Site Workin
I’m really really busy working on a couple of little things. I am redesigning signalfade.com’s corporate interface. It’s going to be pretty dark (ominous?). Also, I am working on illinoisdivorce.com’s new look and feel. I love it. It’s a very lightly designed site and I am going to get to implement some really cool technologies to go along with it.
I will be using (i think) Movable Type,...
Ralph Nader Fails to Draw
Ralph Nader spoke at Columbia College Chicago the other day. He made a none-to-long speech at the Getz Auditorium and then answered questions including the usual “Why don’t you drop out so that we have a better chance of getting Bush out of office and a democrat (Kerry) in?”
The guy who asked this question was in one of my classes at one time or the other and is none too bright. He made the...
Sorry about the lapse.
Sorry about the lapse in posting. I’ve been super busy and I have been posting a lot of information just not here.
My other site: Walker Tech has gotten most of my attention as it is where I’ve been storing all the useful technical data I come across on my average day.
I will put up a few entries today if I can help it.
Sun-Times Digs at Durbin
I read this in the paper the day after the elections and despite the fact that the guy writes one of those cruddy “a few witty sentences to start your morning” type columns it made me wonder about Senator Durbin’s career in the U.S. Congress. I set out to research his voting record and his finances.
Dick Durbin has fought against tobacco industry subsidies by attaching a proposal to strip $25...
Homeland Security Alert Level
I have added a new icon to the bottom of the left column. You should now see the current Homeland Security Alert Level as provided by Geek and Proud.
More on Horseshoes
If people need info on horseshoes, then we shall give them info on horseshoes. I would like to point you in the direction of this recipe which purports to be the original Springfield Horseshoe. It looks a helluva lot more complicated then my dad’s version. As for taste….I guess I’ll have to give this one a try as well.