September 2006
The Archives
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09.27.06Bookmark Management Miscellaneous (4)
I’ve gotten to the point where my bookmarks at home and at work have diverged in significant ways and I’m getting frustrated when I don’t have access to the link I need. I think it’s time I entered 2006 and used a snazzy web 2.0 app for my bookmark management. Suggestions on the best (most […]
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09.26.06How I Spent My Family Vacation Family and Friends (1)
Mrs. Flametoad and I took our first real vacation since Tadpole-1 was born three years ago. We went to Port Aransas, which is a popular beach on Padre Island on the Texas gulf coast. The drive was roughly six hours– two hours longer than I’d remembered. The long drive was made much more tolerable with […]
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09.22.06Sucks to Be Him Miscellaneous (4)
CANADIAN police wrongly identified an Ottawa software engineer as an Islamic extremist, prompting US agents to deport him to Syria, where he was tortured, an official inquiry found yesterday. The rest of the article is here. Meanwhile, here’s the text [pdf] of something floating around in Congress that appears to leave interpretation of the Geneva […]
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09.21.06Now THIS is a Music Video Movies and TV, Seen on the 'Net (2)
The video for Knights of Cydonia has got to be one of the coolest music videos ever.
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09.20.06Spending Miscellaneous, Seen on the 'Net (10)
As a fiscal conservative, the Republicans have pretty much burned their bridges with me. What kind of bizarro world have I entered in which the previous Democrat administration manages to balance the budget and pay down the national debt, only to have the following Republican administration roll back the legistration requiring a balanced budget and […]
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