7am: No sidewalk pictures from yesterday. They were just framing things up, and didn’t finish until after it was too dark for interesting pictures. And they’re out getting started at 7am today. Full update will be along later, but I may be later than usual with it.
9am: Well, it’s later, but actually not too much later than usual. The guys are busy finishing up the forms and preparing for the truck of concrete to arrive, and I’ve had breakfast and cleaned up and am waiting for things to warm up enough outside that I can paint the garage. And that’s pretty much the plan for today.
- Says here New Yahoo Maps Shows Power of Flash. I’ve used Y!Maps over the other services, mostly because their address book for the maps application sucked less. I guess I’ll have to give the new version a try, but my suspicion is that I’ll get tired of having to go turn on the
Enable plug ins
checkbox in Safari (it’s mostly off, so I don’t get annoying flash ads) before too long, and switch to using some other set of maps. It’s not that I hate flash, but that I hate ads that blink and make it harder for me to read things on the web. I especially hate ads that make my computer make noise. Shutting off plug-ins completely kills all the ads that make noise. [scripting] - No surprise here: both Democrats and Republicans are Fiscal Phonies. Republicans are making noise about the big cuts they’re working on. Run the numbers, and it’s 0.3 percent, and a good chunk of those aren’t actually cuts, but rather accounting tricks that would get the CFO of any publicly-traded firm either fired or tossed in jail (or both). [instapundit]
- Dave Winer pointed to a story saying CNN Ousts Aaron Brown and Gives Slot to Anderson Cooper and comments that
Anderson Cooper is a putz.
Well, Aaron Brown was a putz, too. He got his anchor job because he was thrust into the national spotlight on 9/11. But none of it really matters to me, since I gave up on almost all TV news (I’ll still check out the local news once in a while, mostly for the weather forecast) years back. [scripting] - Is ATF Retaining Purchase Records? In violation of federal law that says they can only hold them for 24 hours? Quite possibly. Grr. [war on guns]
- Last month, I mentioned an Indiana business owner who was arrested for shotting at some vandals with birdshot. Well, the prosecutor has decided there will be No charges for shooting at joy riders. A small victory.