Burningbirdhe surest indicator of how things have changed since the election is that Bush came to Missouri today, but the lead story in St. Louis Today (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch online site) ended up being about the winning Powerball ticket being sold in Missouri. Bush’s visit was relegated to the back pages; along with an […]
Bush is making a visit to Missouri on Thursday to push his health care plan. How appropriate, considering that our Republican governor has cut the number of children and other people covered under Medicaid and Medicare. Over 100,000 400,000 were dropped, and I’ll tell you one thing: they won’t be covered under Bush’s plan, either. Here’s the deal: I as […]
The book title, Adding Ajax, should be synonymous with the concept of progressive enhancement in Ajax development, and I’ve gone through the earlier chapters and adjusted accordingly. Progressive enhancement (or should that be Progressive Enhancement?) is the philosophy that you create web pages that don’t require any scripting at all, first; then add scripting effects in […]
WordPress 2.1 is code-named “Ella” after Ella Fitzgerald. Well, if that’s so, then Ella is singing the blues. In the next couple of weeks, I planned on upgrading all of my weblogs to the new version. I’m also moving the few people who had tried out Wordform to WordPress 2.1, so they’re using a supported weblogging […]
I’m not sure when I’ll be able to return to my search, but I hope to sometime in the near future. I’m trying to find a Lacey Smith, though he’s long been dead and the only event of any note in his life that I can see is he shot and killed Polk Grimes the […]