BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Susan Mernit has a quote from professional photographer, Lane Hartwell, about setting her Flickr stream to private because of image theft. What spurred this on was the popular Web 2.0 Bubble video, which I also linked, and which didn’t credit any of the people whose work it used. Hartwell wrote: Matt Hempey, the creator […]
The weather powers have predicted snow for St. Louis, and a decent amount, too. St. Louis is not a city that gets much snow, so 6 inches or so is significant for us. I was coming home from the store today–fresh veggies and dip, a favorite snowed in treat–when I saw the complex maintenance guys […]
Via Sierra Club, the Daily Kos has a break down on the top presidential candidates–Republican and Democrat–and their responses to a Katie Couric question: Is Global Warming Overblow. The answers are interesting. Fred Thompson’s response was a joke–electing him would be like electing Bush again for a third term. The other Republican candidates, at least are willing to admit […]
My shoulder does not improve, in fact, it’s gotten quite worse. As has my elbows, and hands. If you think this sounds computer related, it is–or at least, the computer use is exacerbating the problems. Especially the shoulder, which has gotten bad enough to impact both sleeping and driving. After the book is done at […]
This has been a week of sad good-byes. Danny Ayers and Dan Connolly both write on an incredibly tragic event. Last weekend, while Chimezie and Roschelle Ogbuji were having a rare night out, a baseboard heater caught fire in the basement. Though the babysitters were able to escape, the Ogbuji’s three little girls–Imose Esosa Ikpia, Chikaora Credell Zion, […]