Woke up this morning to dark. Followed by grey. Followed by dark. The rain that was supposed to have hit sometime yesterday evening seems to have been delayed somewhere in western Minnesota, and is still lingering with us this morning. I know, I know, I said yesterday that the nice weather was making it hard to concentrate on indoor work, but I’m still pretty sure I’d rather have that than another rainy day.
Then again, I don’t have to get out and water the grass today. I guess that’s something.
- This CSS Techniques Roundup–20 CSS Tips & Tricks looks like a handy thing to keep in my list of references. And so shall it be. [holy schmoly]
- A List Apart has an article on doing Multi-Column Lists with CSS. None of the solutions look much better to me than the way I’ve done that with PHP for a few clients. There really needs to be a better solution. [zeldman]
- Is it too early to start thinking about who the 2008 GOP presidential candidate will be? If you think it’s time, go participate in the September Straw Poll. Tim Pawlenty is on the list, even though he’s made a point of raising taxes, and then insulting our intelligence by calling it a fee. As with Clinton and Bush, It’s not that I’m upset about the lies, but rather that they insulted our intelligence by thinking we’d fall for them. [vodkapundit]
- John Dvorak wants to Decentralize and Network the Federal Government Now. And it sounds like a pretty good idea until you realize that it’s too good to work. [vodkapundit]
- Investor’s Business Daily says Congress should Start Saying ‘No’ to Louisiana’s Congressional Delegation. [instapundit]
- As someone who’s voted for the GOP in the past (for many of the same reasons as I have), Warren has more on The Death of Small-Government Republicans:
The Republicans are lost. Combine this kind of spending with their Patriot Act and Sarbabes-Oxley driven Big-Borther-Is-Watching intrusiveness, luke-warm committment to free-trade, and bizarre obsession with pornography, and I find nothing at all attractive about the party. Only the economic insanity of the opposition party continues to keep Republicans in power.
Amen. [coyote blog] - Mitch had his Retail Rage on Monday. For me, it was yesterday. I popped in to Target after grabbing some lunch. I had store-coupons for a half-dozen items, and also needed Mountain Dew. Aside from finding out that I can’t buy any more Sudafed this month (you can’t get a full month’s supply of Sudafed from a single store, due to the stupid laws in Minnesota — as I calculate it, you can get about 25 days worth per month — maybe Phyllis or Larry will invite me over to drip snot at their houses for the other five or six days of the month), Target has rearranged the damned store again. Two of my coupons were for ziploc bags and trash bags, but for the life of me, I couldn’t find the plastic bags section of the store. I complained to the gal at the checkout counter, who explained that
they move the stuff you want closer to the cash registers so you go by everything else first and buy more.
I replied that I had come in looking for eight things, and was leaving with five, and perhaps she could mention to the management that if people can’t find things, they might buy less. I know I did. [mitch]
