Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The lawyer for Lori Drew has filed a response in California, to the charges that Drew violated MySpace’s rules and terms of service. If you don’t remember who Lori Drew is, she was the woman accused of “hounding” the 13 year old Megan Meier to death. I used the word “hounded” facetiously, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. From MarketWatch, in light of today’s Hurricane Dolly landfall along the Texas/Mexican border: As Hurricane Dolly bears down on the Texas Rio Grande Valley, the chairman of the Texas Border Coalition (TBC) today protested construction of the border wall by the Department of Homeland Security during the hurricane season and […]
Categories
Liar, liar
Scott at Lazycoder writes on his recent job interview experiences. Certification and licensing should be about setting a base level of competency. You shouldn’t have to ask someone what the difference between a div and a span element is during a phone screen if they are a licensed web developer. You shouldn’t ask a C++ developer to […]
Categories
Candidates speak on the issues
St. Louis Today, the online site for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has put together a clever page for Missouri voters: side-by-side videos on the issues by the single Democratic and two Republican contenders for governor. I won’t hide the fact that I’m a big supporter of Jay Nixon. It was with relief, though, that I saw the […]
Vector Magic originated as a free online service hosted at Stanford University. You could upload a raster image, such as clip art or a photo, and use the service to generate a vector-based image. You could then export the image in a format such as SVG. The service was simple to use and did an […]