Archive for February, 2006

508 Website Compliance

Just downloaded and tried out a Dreamweaver extension from the Macromedia site called the Accessibility Suite for W3C/WCAG, V1.0.1. I ran a report on one of my personal sites, and yikes! This thing is unusable. It’s so picky I’d have to sit there for months correcting things. I think the purpose of the free extension [...]

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Possible look for 6th gen video iPod

See my post from 12/9/05 for the details. Just wanted to link to a recent Engadget blog entry about the same thing. They’ve got a concept photo, too!
Updated 2/4/2008: It turns out the widescreen video iPod wasn’t too different from the concept photo that made the rounds during that time.

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The Mohammed caricatures

I was listening to NPR as I drove home today, and heard yet more news about embassies being torched in response to the Mohammed caricatures. That’s in addition to the feverish demonstrations that have been going on for days. I’m not even going to discuss whether publishing the caricatures was right or wrong, or whether [...]

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The new mom

My wife and I were at the doctor’s office this afternoon for an appointment. What I saw in the waiting room had me doing a double take and had her looking away. This new mom, dressed in jeans, a thick t-shirt, and thick-soled shoes, had her baby in nothing but diapers in a pretty drafty [...]

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Strange bathroom habits…

Just went to the bathroom at work, and saw something that made me do a doubletake. This fellow finished using the urinal, flushed it, then walked into a stall to do a number two. This is just plain strange to me. Why in the world wouldn’t he just use the stall in the first place, [...]

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ComeAcross Podcast 7

Download ComeAcross Podcast 7
Summary: A 330 MPG uber hybrid, viruses cause obesity, some of the worst things you can do to your body, the invasion of the bed bugs, ultra-efficient air conditioner, new standard keyboard, do not worship false idols.
Links of interest for this podcast:

330 MPG uber hybrid? by Sterling D. Allan
Virus [...]

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