“Gentlemen…behold! I have shut down a major American city!” What drives me nuts about this whole thing — besides the fact that these have been posted around the city for at least 2 weeks before this whole thing (figuratively) blew up — is that TV and newspaper reports keep referring to these small light-up billboards …
Well, unless you’re reading this in an RSS reader it’s pretty obvious that I launched this site’s new design. Nothing earth-shattering, just a (slight) improvement over the last minimalist/unfinished black & white version. There might be some weirdness while I work out the kinks, but hopefully it’s nothing too major.
I added a new photo slideshow thing on the Photos page using JonDesign’s Smooth Gallery, combining it with the SimplePie RSS reader to display my most recent Flickr photos. An entire new site design coming soon … just have to work through some wacky CSS things.
Though I didn’t go to Willett (I was a St. John’s kid) this surely is a proud moment for my old hometown: Attleboro elementary school bans tag Officials at the Willett Elementary School in Attleboro have banned playground tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chasing games over concerns about the risk of injury and …
The kids’ websites have been updated with new photos from this summer: Amelia | Jeremy
The design of this site has been pretty much the same since I bought the domain in 2000, when I hastily put the site up to help with a job search. I’ve been wanting to redesign for years, and lately wanted to add new features and switch over to PHP. Anyway, I finally decided to …
The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld (Slate) Until now, the secretary’s poetry has found only a small and skeptical audience: the Pentagon press corps. Every day, Rumsfeld regales reporters with his jazzy, impromptu riffs. Few of them seem to appreciate it. But we should all be listening. Rumsfeld’s poetry is paradoxical: It uses playful language to …
Flickr has added a pretty cool feature to their site: geotags let you can point out on a map exactly where you took a photo. (FlickrBlog has all the details.) For example, take my photo of the Zakim Bridge: Under “Additional Information” in the right part of the page it says “Taken in East Cambridge, …
Amelia got some new umbrellas for her birthday, so she and Brian tried them out.
Screw this guy and his photos that make mine look like total crap.