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Healthcare

Where the healthcare reformers are failing…badly

aroli was talking about an incident in her neighborhood via Twitter that I later found out to have been at a Healthcare reform protest put on by MoveOn. Karoli recounts the pro-reformer’s side of the event, and there seems to be any number of people wanting to jump on that particular wagon. I’m not one of them. The […]

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Burningbird Just Shelley

Crickets: Comments, HTML5, and Drupal 7

I did turn the comments back on for the post, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer: RDFa and HTML5’s Microdata. Well, until the post gets overrun by spam, or until the crickets chirping drive me batty, whichever happens first. My idea of comments on this site, and redirecting from the others didn’t work. It left people confused, and the connection […]

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Critters

Saying good-bye to an old friend

Yesterday we spent several hours at the veterinary hospital with our cat of 18 years, Zoe. In a week’s time she went from being an older but still happy and healthy kitty, to one where she is no longer eating, and now drinking. Our regular vet was not on duty, but the vet we had […]

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Healthcare

Whole Foods, healthcare, and boycott

I find it fascinating to watch what happens when progressives discover what kind of a person the CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey, is. Because his stores sell organic and healthy products, people automatically assumed he was a progressive like themselves. However, Mackey is the worst of fanatical libertarians, though it was only with the […]

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HTML5 RDF

HTML5, RDFa, and the Beatles

How is the ongoing debate about HTML5/Microdata and RDFa like a Beatles’ song? Read more at Bb RealTech: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer: RDFa and HTML5’s Microdata. I’ve turned comments back on, at least until I get overrun by spam, or the crickets get too loud.