I just checked back, and I didn’t make any special comment about the year, month and date being the same in 2001, 2002, 2003 or 2004, so I guess I’d better mention it now. Heck, it’ll only happen until 2012.
Good weather, and a relatively good day yesterday. Some work got done, but the chores around the house got left behind when I decided to head out for some buck burgers with friends. But it left me in a good mood last night, and feeling good this morning, so I think the break was worth it.
- Want to know the latest on the MCPPA? Joel Rosenberg has the poop, including which legislators are still on the fence and could use a polite call. During the time when permits were going out relatively easily, the sky didn’t fall, and the streets didn’t erupt in gun-violence. That discredits most of the antis’ arguments right there. [mitch]
- I’ve made the Saints 2005 Schedule available in iCal format. Email me if you find any errors or absolutely need it in xCal format. I haven’t figured out how to do the conversion yet, but I’m convinced it’s not too difficult, since there’s a bunch of sample code from Apple that looks useful. In any case, the pre-season starts this Saturday, so I figure it’s about time to make the data available.
- The MN Historical Society will have an lecture tonight: Swinging For The Fences: Black Baseball In Minnesota. I’m hoping to head over for it.
- Over in St. Paul, Capitol leaders back plan for Twins stadium, and it could come to a vote next week. If not, Ballpark passage predicted, possibly in a special session this spring. The St. Paul paper seems to think there’s a chance that we’ll get a referendum on the tax, but the Twins are in full-on scare-mongering mode, saying that the delay imposed by a referendum will drive up costs so much that they won’t be able to build a stadium. Well, that and the fact the the tax would almost certainly be voted down in a referendum. Everyone in the state seems to be eager to spend Hennepin County taxpayers’ money, and legislators are praising the
smart strategy of financing a ballpark with a Hennepin County tax that neither residents nor legislators can block
. When this sort of thing happened a couple hundred years back, it made for a bunch of tea dumped into Boston Harbor… Of course if you dressed up as Indians, broke into the Metrodome, stole a bunch of baseballs and dumped them into the Mississippi today, you’d be called a terrorist and a racist. [strib and press-patch] - Interesting. The Mozilla SVG Project is adding native SVG rendering to FireFox. Two things that I find interesting. The first is that SVG is a direct comptetitor to Adobe’s Flash. The second is that, a few examples aside, graphics haven’t been a part of HTML until now. I’m wondering what doors this will open for designers. [slashdot]
- Hmm. There’s google’s new web accelerator which, as I understand it, serves up pages from their cache. jr’s cranky about it. Cranky enough to turn adwords into Minus Words, blocking them from his world. I’m interested to see what solution he ends up inventing. [jr]
- Did you know that E-mail addles the mind more than smoking dope? Doesn’t surprise me. When I’ve got serious work to be done that requires real concentration, I shut down the email. Otherwise it’s too easy to switch apps, distract myself, and lose my train of thought. [claire]