HELIOLITH

Spent a lonnggg time this evening wrestling with mt.cfg (movable type configuration file) for hours & finally… I have success… thank you again to Elise at www.elise.com/mt/ and various google searches, forum threads on the error messages I was getting whilst trying to install Movable Type. The most important tidbit I discovered…

that held me […]

I don’t like SUVs. Not that I don’t think they’re neat looking. It’s funny (peculiar) I actually think aesthetically that the Hummer is a cool looking vehicle, but I can’t help but give the evil eye to anyone driving one. Not that I think I’m ethically perfect, it’s just that a Hummer is such a […]

Wired News ran a story today entitled:Nukes Still Take Toll on Workers: One of the victims of Chronic Beryllium Disease (”CBD”) caused by exposure to this element said,
“Bell said when he was hired in 1968 ‘we were told you could eat the stuff and it wouldn’t hurt you.’ Despite the presence of beryllium dust throughout […]

The BBC reports,: “Japanese 3G mobile owners can now pay with their phones instead of their wallets with a new service launched by wireless mobile network NTT DoCoMo.” Password protection built in, fingerprint lockout accessory optional. At least that’s how I read the article. Maybe it would fail less than the magnetic […]

In the New York Times last Thursday, August 5th, Bruce Springsteen (childhood musical influence) wrote a letter on the op-ed page. He writes that he has, ” for the last 25 years I have always stayed one step away from partisan politics” but that now, “for many of us the stakes have risen too […]

Baffling news from the BBC: Recycled Prozac ‘found in drinking water’ They believe that “the anti-depression drug gets into the rivers and water system via treated sewage water.” Cause for alarm for some perhaps. Others may think of it as a plus: now everyone will be happier (lol).

Isn’t the president supposed to be the great communicator?
So sad when he says things
like this quote from Reuters today, “‘Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we,’ Bush said.” What could he possibly have been […]

This isn’t essentially a political blog. I try not to dwell on the mind-numbingly vicious violence in the world today like this article on the military abuse of children in Iraq that ran on 8/01/04 from the Scottish Sunday Herald.
Nonetheless, today I feel compelled to respond to the snafu in current events, directly attributable […]

For some reason, completely unclear to me, I have a fairly recent obsession for watches. I have restrained myself from buying one, since of course, I am practically broke. Nonetheless, Boing Boing posted 2 links to watches today, both of which I think are super-slick. There are 2 versions of the Earth watch […]

Wired News reported this morning on Joshua Kinberg’s bicycle-powered real-time sidewalk/street slogan writing machine. He has created a system to transmit SMS text messages from his internet website to his mobile phone. He will be riding around NYC during the Republican National Convention for example, and relaying approved slogans to his trailer-mounted homemade […]