Entries from September 2005

Maybe it’s just me, but it strikes me that, if you’re looking for a mascot for the water and sewer [...]

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Here’s the overall winner of the Visions of Science Photographic Awards, shot by David McCarthy. Do you know what it [...]

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I got a neat toy delivered today, courtesy of the folks at Dymo. Dymo, as you might realize, makes label [...]

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A friend asked me about a house for sale in the Roanoke area, wanting to know about the neighborhood. Not [...]

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“We spent a lot of years putting cameras where people didn’t know they were, and I didn’t have a problem [...]

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I mean, the Mac users. Desperate, as always, to find fault with anything that isn’t unabashedly pro-Mac, the folks at [...]

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Mac users don’t seem to realize that I wasn’t reviewing the iPod. I was simply using it as an example of a quality product. As usual, though, they’re freaking out.

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Oh, my.

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I was sitting in a seminar today on how newspapers need to keep themselves relevant. One of the things that [...]

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One of the big problems I have with lots of surveys is that the people taking them are doling out [...]

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The photo below of one Kimi Reynolds, Katrina refugee, has been in lots of papers — the face of despair. [...]

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The federal government is now trying to stop press access to New Orleans.

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From Scientific American, October 2001, comes “Drowning New Orleans” which begins: A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 [...]

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I installed an update for PerfectDisk, the excellent defragmenter I use. When it was done, it popped up a message [...]

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FEMA director Mike Brown is showing himself over and over to be utterly and completely clueless and incompetent. His total [...]

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Via the Survival of New Orleans blog comes these comments from “Bigfoot,” a life-long N.O. resident, made on Thursday, Sept. [...]

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I listened to an NPR reporter absolutely take down Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. Chertoff had insisted, on the [...]

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Gas station owners are evil, price-gouging thugs, right? After all, they raised prices in the middle of the day — [...]

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Holed up in New Orleans, a blogger is posting about what’s going on in New Orleans. Not pleasant reading. And [...]

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