Posted on June 29, 2006 - Filed Under blurbs, computing & internet, funny | Leave a Comment
June 29, 2006 - Apologies to you newbies who couldn’t get comments moderated for a while. Internet connectivity is mine again (the kind that befits my computing needs, that is). Long live the intarwebs! For a while there, I thought I was going to have to call tech support. *Hold music!*
Read More..>>Day 305: Things Are Looking Up
Posted on June 29, 2006 - Filed Under government, new orleans, pictures, science & technology, travel | 8 Comments
As you can see from this post, I’ve succesfully returned from my offshore Gulf of Mexico trip and to a FAST internet connection my computers. The austere simplicity of daily life offshore combined with the technical complexity of the work made for a great break from everyday America. No politics, traffic, parking, crime, social and […]
Read More..>>Posted on June 25, 2006 - Filed Under blurbs, computing & internet, new orleans | 4 Comments
June 25, 2006 - For the next two or three days, I will be offshore on a Gulf of Mexico drilling ship. This is a request to all NOLA residents, especially you blogger hounds, to keep on the facts surrounding the destruction of the Coliseum Place Baptist Church and report back to me or […]
Read More..>>Day 300: A Sad End To The Coliseum Place Baptist Church
Posted on June 24, 2006 - Filed Under culture-society-history, new orleans, pictures | 14 Comments
I am exhausted. Since 7:30AM yesterday, I have been at the scene of the demolition of the Coliseum Place Baptist Church which mysteriously went up in flames in the wee hours of the morning of Thursday, June 22nd. What began as interest in and coverage of the destruction of a local historic site […]
Read More..>>Day 298: One More Fire In This Town
Posted on June 22, 2006 - Filed Under new orleans, pictures | Leave a Comment
Historic Church Burns Down In Lower Garden District
Sleep has been elusive lately, but it is apparent that I was knocked out enough last night to have missed the action in my very own neighborhood. “A total of 82 firefighter and 27 units” fought a fire that “reduced Coliseum Place Baptist Church, at 1376 Camp […]
Posted on June 21, 2006 - Filed Under blurbs, computing & internet, funny | Leave a Comment
June 21, 2006 - Also also also, with no time to sleep, cook and test Cox’s work (or lack thereof) on my cable box, I play with creating Firefox extensions into the wee hours of the morning. Now, if I can only convince my employers to release themselves from the insidious clutch of Win2K. For “if you’re trying to make […]
Read More..>>Posted on June 21, 2006 - Filed Under blurbs, new orleans, wordpress | 2 Comments
June 21, 2006 - Greetings of the summer solstice, which coincides with the last concert at the square for this year. In the last 24 hours, Akismet picked up 361 pieces of comment spam on this blog and they have all been bulk-deleted. If you left me a comment in this time frame and do not see […]
Read More..>>Day 296: The Earth Is A Process, As Are We
Posted on June 20, 2006 - Filed Under articles, culture-society-history, geology, gizmos & hacks, government, new orleans, science & technology | 4 Comments
nola.com: Rebuilding Needs Science, Report Says
[A 20-person panel of the American Geophysical Union, consisting of earth and space scientists] recommended improved hurricane and storm surge forecasting and a reliance on high-quality scientific data to guide the rebuilding of New Orleans and other hard-hit areas of the Gulf Coast.
The report also recommends … periodic scientific assessments of the reconstruction […]
Posted on June 19, 2006 - Filed Under blurbs, computing & internet, culture-society-history, gizmos & hacks, global, government | Leave a Comment
June 19, 2006 - Saudi Women Unveil Opinions Online Those of you who question the value of blogging should consider Saudi Eve and “the beginning of a cyber battle between liberal Saudi bloggers and their more conservative counterparts.” You go, girl! Fight for your right to Bloggie!
Read More..>>Posted on June 19, 2006 - Filed Under blurbs, funny, government | Leave a Comment
June 19, 2006 - Mayor Violates Computer Policy He Helped Write No, not in New Orleans, but in Newark, Ohio. “Mayor Bruce Bain paid a $368 fine for sending an e-mail that promoted his son’s part-time beverage business to city workers. He wrote to 15 city employees, recommending they become involved in selling a health […]
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