OK, after years of contemplation, now that I'm finally nearly fully settled in my new job, I'm finally starting the process of switching over to the NON-SECRET journal, with the goal of actually starting to use it on July 1. A friends-only post will follow with details.

stacebass was plagued with motorcycle drag racers behind her house until they got deported last week. This morning, walking in to work from the repair shop, I was passed by garbage trucks drag racing.

Trial By Choir: TLC reality show about a choir of (mostly) troubled teenagers. The struggle of the director and counselor with each other is actually more interesting than anything the kids might learn from a whiny counselor and a director who thinks they can learn humility by singing in a stinky basement. But just try and tell me you wouldn't ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in my required annual Equal Opportunity meeting right now. It's a "webcast" all about the importance of accessibility.

( Guess. Just guess. )

So they added this new control strip to the top of the default style and I thought it was YOU GAH LEE. I'm not even going to admit how many hours I spent learning CSS properties and syntax I never new before (opacity, positioning stuff, alpha-channel color specs that browsers don't even support yet, z-index that I ended up not using), and gaining ( Read more... )

✓Some questions in this meme may cut a little too close to things I consider truly private, not shared with my closest friends-so close I don't even want them to know which questions, if any.

This isn't strictly about network neutrality, actually, but about other common carrier regulations thrown out in the same bill. From the Black Commentator last week:Last week the House of Representatives passed the COPE Act, which will turn the free and open Information Superhighway into a corporate toll road, and lift regulations that force cable ( Read more... )

Because we need to sell more breakfast cereal and action figures, and less of urban kids learning stuff, to support the war, you know, the House has once again voted to slash funding for PBS and NPR--according to MoveOn, though I don't find any news stories (yet) to back this up, eliminating it entirely in two years.

Tell them to cut it the fuck ( Read more... )

The Easter Bunny hates YOU!

Just in case you needed something to do tomorrow night in Bethesda with some very interesting people.