Please don’t hurt the Web. Use open standards!
Now that I’m doing a lot more web dev I feel the pain of this poor animal. For goodness sakes… stop the suffering use open standards!
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I got a MacBookPro with two OSes
I just purchased my dream machine. A MacBook Pro, 15.4″ wide matte LCD, 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB Ram, 150GB HD. Plus I got a Microsoft bluetooth mouse that works on the mac very well. My old ibook is still around but happily resting.
One of the best parts is running Windows and Mac OS [...]
Graffiti IS Art
Mark Schultz over at the N&O’s Orange Chat blog writes:
Graffiti or Art?
So we sent staff photog Leslie Barbour to shoot a town worker painting over some gang symbols at the Chapel Hill Community Center this morning.
I was talking to Leslie about the story later this afternoon, and she said we shouldn’t call the gang symbols [...]
Carrboro Citizen Arrives
We got a Carrboro Citizen newspaper on our doorstep yesterday evening. Its really nice to have it delivered for free. ESPECIALLY when it doesn’t sit rotting in our parking space like the Chapel Hill News.
This Citizen’s paper design reminds me of my Grandparent’s home town paper The Hickory Daily Record. I think its because its [...]
VCU beats Duke in NCAA first round
Final Score
VCU 79
Duke 77
I’m a very proud VCU alumni right now. The VCU men’s basketball team did a great job. But I have to admit I didn’t like bball much in college.
Living in North Carolina will change you tho’. As will marrying a Chapel Hill native who went to UNC. Fact is there are so [...]
One Million Blogs for Peace
On the right side bar of my blog I’ve put up a badge that links to a really interesting campaign. Its called One Million Blogs for Peace. Here’s some more explanation from their site. You can sign up here. Their blog is here.
The Concept
Between 20 March 2007 and 20 March 2008 (the fifth year of [...]
I dreamt we went to Google
This morning I woke at my regular time. Because it was Saturday I was annoyed. Those coveted hours of extra sleep didn’t seem like they were going to happen. Some how I dozed off. When I awoke again I realized I had just had the following dream.
* * * DREAM * * *
Ruby and I [...]
We Shouldn’t Forget
This new insult to the Weaver Street Lawn community described in the previous post got me thinking we should remember what happened this summer. See this video I shot edited and posted on YouTube. Explanations from the source.
What is the Carr Mill Mall management thinking?
From the Orange Politics post Carr Mill gives the finger to Weaver Street patrons Ruby writes:
My peaceful mid-morning trip to the grocery store today was interrupted by the erection of two huge signs in the middle of the Weaver Street Market lawn. If these were at the entrance to Weaver Street from the sidewalk [...]
