If you’d like to add your own anti-SOPA pop-up to your blog, simply add this text somewhere on your website:
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You’ll want to enclose the above “script” and “/script” in angle brackets, of course.
On my WordPress setup, I put this into a text widget and added it to my sidebar. Your Mileage May Vary.
Thanks for spreading the word!
Hollywood is pushing bills through Congress right now to give them the power to shut down any Internet sites they disagree with at will. This law would not only apply to American websites but any website with a .com, .org, or .edu domain suffix.
Ironically, the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act go against the very First Amendment rights that make Hollywood possible. Free speech isn’t free if it’s more free for some.
Call or contact your Congressional representatives today and let them know that you care about your Constitutional rights! See the EFF or Mozilla.org for more information!
As word came in today of the “eviction” of the Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, I thought about our weekend visit to Williamsburg and Jamestown.
As a kid, the story told in my history lessons was that the Pilgrims came to America for its freedom. What this weekend’s visit to the Jamestown Settlement Museum reminded me of was that the first (European) settlers in America – the Jamestown settlers of 1607 – weren’t seeking freedom at all but riches. Those settlers weren’t seeking to establish a government, colony, or society but a company: the Virginia Company. America’s government was a business.
The other interesting thing was the tour of the historic gaol (jail) in Colonial Williamsburg. The cells housing prisoners were all spartan and exposed to the elements, except for the cell for debtors. The debtors’ cell was the only one that had a fireplace. Financial crimes weren’t considered as serious as robbery or other crimes.
Not a lot has changed in four hundred years, has it?
I accepted a contracting offer with a local firm today. I’m excited about the work, the people, and the schedule seems perfect!
I’m angling to begin work on Wednesday but that might be a bit optimistic with the paperwork and other stuff. Regardless of exactly when my new job begins, I’m happy to be rejoining the workforce and looking forward to solving my new challenges!
This is astonishing news.
The race of utilities and dirty-fuel industries to build more power plants or drill more wells is not so much a race against dwindling dirty-fuel supplies, it’s a race against dirty-fuel obsolescence.
Oh, and that Solyndra so-called scandal? It’s a blessing in disguise, caused by the falling price of solar cells.
If oil prices fell from their 2008 peak as far as solar component prices have, a barrel of oil would cost about $10 – a 93 percent drop. Everyone could afford to fuel his own Formula One racecar.
Solar is already competitive with fossil fuel power in many markets around the world, especially where supply is unreliable and diesel backup generation is uncommon. “People are missing out about how cheap solar power has become,” said Ramesh Misra, senior analyst covering solar and technology at Brigantine Advisors in New York. “There is no other energy source that can make that claim.”
Colonial Williamsburg
We returned this afternoon from a weekend trip to Williamsburg to surprise Kelly’s dad for his 70th birthday. After showing up at his doorstep unannounced Saturday morning, we finished breakfast and headed out to see Colonial Williamsburg.
Thanks to a press release from the Governor’s office, I knew ahead of time that Colonial Williamsburg (or “CW,” as it’s known to locals) had free admission to veterans this weekend in honor of Veterans Day. We were able to score free tickets for my family, which was a nice perk.
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I found this picture (slide, actually) in my collection of stuff and scanned it in a few months ago. It was taken on one of my very last days of boot camp, mid-April 1988, by the photo vendors of the now-defunct Boardwalk and Baseball theme park near Orlando, FL. I was on my way in a few days to my very first duty station: my A-school training at Fort Devens, MA. From left to right are James Kading (I think), Christopher Patrick, Richard Royston and me.
I have no idea where these guys wound up. Boot camp isn’t a place you have a lot of time to socialize. There was only one sailor in my company I got to know better, only because we spent 6 months together at the aforementioned A-school. I wonder what these gentlemen here are up to now.
I got a job offer today and it’s a good one! The work is interesting, I like the people I’d be working with, and the company seems to be truly supportive of its employees.
The only reason I didn’t jump right on it today and accept it is that there are three other interesting opportunities that I’m also pursuing, some of which still have interviews pending. Each offers something unique from the others. Each has its advantages. The two I’ve interviewed with so far seem to be very interested in what I can do, and I expect a good talk tomorrow with the third firm.
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Graffiti on the Beltline
I found more graffiti on the I-440 Raleigh Beltline last week and that sent me Googling for how to get it removed. Seems a Google search on the terms “NCDOT graffiti” returns MT.Net as the third result. In other words, there aren’t a lot of resources for graffiti removal.
The good news is that NCDOT is getting serious about graffiti removal. It has a contract out for bid right now for graffiti-removal services for Durham and Wake counties.
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Doc Searls posted today about his return to blogging after finishing a book he’s working on. Doc’s been blogging longer than most anyone else: twelve years!
Reading that rattled something in my brain, so I decided to check my own blogging record:
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