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Political

Pundit one and LAX

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The mighty Glenn Reynolds has written another of his edifying columns out at Fox, this one on the LAX shooting. As expected, he echos the other punditry’s concensus that the shooting was an act of terrorism. Hadayet was from Egypt, most likely hated Jews, objected to an American flag over his apartment […]

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Weather

Cooler breezes

A thunderstorm rolled through today, breaking the heat spell. The temperature should be in the 80’s for the next couple of days, though dewpoints are high. Before moving to St. Louis, I talked about humidity. Now I talk about dewpoints; I am becoming one with the area. I loved what the weather person said yesterday […]

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Political

Bad boys

Seems as if Dick Cheney, fearless co-leader of the US, is being sued for artificially boosting stock prices while he was CEO of Halliburton. This follows on the SEC’s investigation of Halliburton’s accounting practices. Not surprising – Halliburton’s accounting firm was Anderson. I worked for Sierra Geophysics, a subsidiary of Halliburton in Seattle. SG was great. Halliburton […]

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Standards

Alt attributes

Mark Pilgrim’s tip for today Providing text equivalents for images is one of the few tips that I do follow, or at least attempt for follow. All of the images in this weblog should have a text equivalent.

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Connecting

Touching the Untouchable

At what level of discourse will I step over the boundary of comfort? I came close with the postings on anger, but thankfully, we were able to box these in with an objectively intellectual viewpoint that pushed the topic safely and correctly back into manageable bounds. So now, let us up the ante on human […]