Monthly Archives: January 2003

actively achieving accessibility

following a lead alluded in yezbick’s blog, i decided to take a second look at what seemed to be a daunting task. mark pilgrim has been lauded in various places for his program to make any blog more accessible in 30 days. this has nothing to do with spreading the word or self-promotion, but everything

just a little musical democracy

we all have our favorites. we’ve discussed mine before. and now it is time to put it to a vote. head on over to voteworld and lay out your top ten albums of all time. and the best thing? you can watch your choices as the vote progresses.

when elephants look like asses

georgia has a new governor. i didn’t vote for him, his website doesn’t work yet, but there he is. he won by shifting voter focus from a history of increasing education revenues to a yen for a dismissed flag. specifically, a confederate battle flag put into the service of segregationalists in 1956. and a terribly

the ring wanted to go home

frodo has failed. it has answered its master’s call. sometimes those random forwards are quite hilarious… the original is here, though the designer is anyone’s guess. [courtesy of A.N.T.]

stationary wagon

it’s been there for a week now. maybe a week and a half. and i pass it every morning on the way to work. it seems to affect traffic, looking enough like a lurking patrol car to make a driver reconsider his speed between exits 6 and 5. but it’s just sitting there, parked at

memories in electric blue

when i am asked how technology first caught my eye, my answer always comes back to one word followed by one number: commodore 64. my first computer. my parents bought it for me at a store over in the redbank area of chattanooga called metro computer. don’t even bother looking for it. i think it’s

one should know their neighbors

and now i know mine. just by dropping a couple of meta tags into my html, the reverse directory at geourl can ping my site and use longitude and latitude to determine my proximity to other sites in their database. this is a new idea, and right now there are only eight other sites within

if you’re feeling tense and needing amusement…

have i got the site for you. i have introduced you to several online gizmos and toys before, but none have been as easy on the eyes as the ones found in abundance at orisinal. say goodbye to in-office productivity and hello to cute little robots and fishies.

little things make me smile

- hearing well-played strains from a classical violin streaming out into my apartment breezeway while i’m taking out the trash. it’s my neighbor’s wife, whose skill i admire and whose face i’ve never seen. – an elevated wind from the west can pull the sounds of giggling kids from the nearby daycare into the concrete

what a difference a day makes (25th hour)

24 little hours. no. make that 25. in my effort to catch up and catch all of the movies of 2002, i decided to take a look at the latest spike lee film. with so many movies, new york and los angeles get the first look and atlanta gets to wait a few weeks. this