CBS News has posted Bush’s Top 10 Flip-Flops. I hope everyone links to it and Kerry reads fast and takes notes.

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This recently harvested cornfield is right across the road from our house and the set of swamp maples are on the other side of it and beyond them is a grove of oaks which have not started to change yet. I took two pictures, one in sun and this one in partial cloud. The vertical [...]

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I was driving to my friend Evelyn’s house for drumming practice yesterday afternoon and I had my camera with me (I carry it daily for fall color shots) and I was hoping the herd of deer would be out and they were. I have noticed as many as 30 in this herd but yesterday there [...]

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It’s firewood time (a bit late for me this year) and while the chain saw is fired up I figured I’d do a durability test on an old AlphaSmart 2000. Well, I dropped it onto the ground and it survived but after cutting it in half I can report that each half did not work. [...]

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PB FixIt Guides are detailed, useful, online guides to fixing G3 and G4 PowerBooks and G3 iBooks (all generations). Just reading through the details about your model will be useful, broken or not.

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I recently bought the DVD of the Drummers Collective 25th Anniversary and Bass Day 2002 and one of the segments on it is the single most amazing musical performance I’ve ever seen. Victor Wooten is one of the best electric bass players on earth but hey, what do I know, I’d never heard of him [...]

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Note: this was first published for the now defunct web site: Half the Planet and has been online there or at ldresources since 2000. I’m 52 years old, married, live in a nice house, have a successful career as an educational consultant, and I have a learning disability, dyslexia. My life was not always so [...]

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MediaTinker has a post that I’m finding quite useful, even though it refers mostly to movabletype (MT). She illustrates various concepts quite nicely and the CSS is generalizable to WordPress. I think it’s fascinating that I found her through Antipixel and that both of them are designers in Tokyo, Japan, and neither is Japanese. What [...]

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I’m just starting to use MarsEdit from Ranchero Software for managing this weblog (posting and editing) and it’s quite good. Just being able to store custom html tags is worth a lot to me. I think this is going to change the way I “blog.” And, if one is a registered user of NetNewsWire, also [...]

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Type the first number of your zip code into this map and slowly add numbers. Watch the area get smaller right down to a point. Wow. This is interactive learning at its best.

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I know, I’m very late at getting into stuff but now that I play drums and regularly attempt to make music I have a new appreciation for professional performers. I’ve watched the Paul Simon You’re the One Paris Concert numerous times and this particular band is tight and the new arrangements of old standards are [...]

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Bush – There’s no need for a 9/11 commission. Bush – Okay, we’ll have a commission, but Henry Kissinger will head it! Bush – Okay, Hank’s out but it’s not getting full funding. Bush – Okay, full funding but they’ve only got it til May! Bush – Okay, two more months but Condi ain’t testifying. [...]

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I have a number of Paul Simon concerts in movie form, among them: The Concert in Central Park on videotape and Paul Simon Live at the Tower Theater (Philly) on DVD. Richard Tee played keyboards in both of these concerts and undoubtedly at many others that Simon gave. In browsing around the “extras” that are [...]

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I was out in LA recently and after dinner we went down to the walk along the cliff top overlooking the ocean. I’d forgotten how nice the sunsets can be there (this picture is looking north toward Malibu and Ventura). However, even with the nice warm dry weather and sunsets like this, I still think [...]

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We have a number of swamp maples on our property and they’re the first of the maple to turn and eventually lose their leaves. The gray birches are turning as well but they’re just a pale yellow, not quite as nice as the red in maples. I wish I had a better way to do [...]

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The stream behind our house turned into a torrent overnight as we’ve just had a lot of rain in the past 12 hours. I love it when this happens as it washes all the debris out of the streambed that’s been building up all summer and it fills our pond up nicely. Plus, the roar [...]

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Color Schemes Generator is a great prototyping tool for playing with color and color combinations. Fantastic. Looks to be a German site but they’ve been kind enough to make an English page as well. Danke.

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The Virtual Window Project is a step by step set of plans for building the digital electronics back-end to a set of two windows that can display any image or scene you have on your computer, as well as the window framing to hold the LCD panels that display the images. Wow, this is a [...]

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New York City Photobloggers 2: A group of photographers who run photo weblogs will present at the Soho Apple Store on September 30th, 2004 at 6 pm. Cool, maybe I’ll go into the city for that one.

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Businessweek has a fascinating article: Why Jobs Should Heed VoIP’s Call on using Skype and iChat AV and how Apple might turn voice over IP into a real business. Skype iChat AV

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