BurningbirdI’d provide another update on my HTML5 change proposals, but no co-chair decision has yet been published. There was a note in the last HTML WG teleconference minutes that decisions on three of the items, including two of mine, were ready to be published last Thursday, but nothing has appeared in the HTML WG email list. As […]
This weekend we spent going through the house and creating four piles: books to donate to the library computers and electronics to recycle at the electronics recycling place stuff for Goodwill a recycle/toss pile. This will be the first time I’ve recycled computers. In the past, I’ve found homes for older machines while they were […]
Fix it! Fix it! The New York Times just published an article titled Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill. In it the author, Elisabeth Rosenthal, wrote: Americans have long had an unswerving belief that technology will save us—it is the cavalry coming over the hill, just as we are about to lose the battle. And […]
I am pleased to see President Obama more engaged in the Gulf crises, but how much control the federal government has is still open for debate. As long as BP controls where resources are allocated in the region, as well as controlling information access, then the Federal government is not in control. Yes, BP is responsible […]
Like so many others, I am watching the events in the Gulf with a mix of anger and despair, though the despair is winning out; especially after I look at the photos of the effects of the oil. I moved to Missouri because I was attracted to the very thing that BP’s oil is killing: the […]