Miklb's Mindless Ramblings

chronicling life in a digital world

New EPA Mercury Rule Omits Conflicting Data (washingtonpost.com)

New EPA Mercury Rule Omits Conflicting Data (washingtonpost.com)So as the President and his henchmen argue the sanctity of life, the facts of Bush’s law in TX about persons on life support not being able to pay for their treatment being removed, depsite families wishes, I find this article at the Washington Post. The kicker, for me is this

because the cost to industry already far exceeded the public health payoff.

So potentially, my life is not valuable enough in terms of corporate costs, however there’s some screwed up sanctity of life for some woman who hasn’t been able to put a glass to her mouth and drink, and wouldn’t know it if Bush himself shot her up with mercury directly?
To not even acknowledge the study, after funding it, is obviously a ploy to hide the real benefits of stricter mercury controls. Not to mention the shear volume it would speak to the global community.

New EPA Mercury Rule Omits Conflicting Data (washingtonpost.com) was published on Monday, March 21, 2005 at 9:56pm and tagged Politics, rants, Bush and national. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

Could Tom DeLay Have Asked for a Better Diversion

With reports from the Washington Post talking about the political ramifications of debating the Shiavo case, to the point of singling out Sen. Nelson (D) of FL, you can be sure that Tom DeLay is quite pleased to be the talking head in front of this issue, if for no other reason than to detract from the hot water that he seems to be avoiding in the mainstream media. I mean, as sad a story that it is, the Atlanta killings, the missing, and now found dead young girl in FL, and the Schiavo case, the CNNs and MSNBCs of the world haven’t had to resort to reporting hard news. And that’s not even taking into account the baseball hearings, the Michael Jackson trial, and the Scott Peterson sentencing. I wonder how many young reporters are hired by the cable news agencies, thinking they are going to be the next Woodward or Bernstein, only to be relegated to gathering background on the neighbor of Scott Peterson?

I am thinking Tom DeLay should quickly become public enemy number one. His reckless quest for the conservative right wing agenda is quickly eroding any confidence in our current leadership.

Could Tom DeLay have asked for a better diversion was published on Sunday, March 20, 2005 at 2:50pm and tagged Politics, rants, DeLay and national. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

Schiavo Case

I’d probably be remiss not to comment on this, as it’s in my backyard, and seems to be a social hot point. I certainly wouldn’t want to put my family and loved ones through a similar situation. At the same time, I wouldn’t just arbitrarily cut off food and water to my own loved ones. I found this great blog that gives some details from the case from the beginning, and it answers a lot of questions. From what I understand what’s been stated in court, I trust the 5 judges that have decided what is best, and what the intentions were.

This is not to say this is going away anytime soon, nor will cases like this fade off into the background as technology advances.

Schiavo Case was published on Saturday, March 19, 2005 at 10:27am and tagged Politics, rants and Schiavo. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

The New York Times > Washington > From DeLay’s Colleagues, Strong, if Wary, Support

The New York Times > Washington > From DeLay’s Colleagues, Strong, if Wary, SupportHow long can this guy keep dodging bullets? Even his side is calling them “brush fires”, have they not heard the saying, “where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

But I’m sure the powers that be on the other side of the aisle will know when they’ve used up Delay, and will cast him aside to some high paying corporate job, and find some other puppet to manipulate the system.

The New York Times > Washington > From DeLay's Colleagues, Strong, if Wary, Support was published on Monday, March 14, 2005 at 6:51pm and tagged Politics, rants, DeLay and national. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

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Just a guy wandering the intarwebs looking to make sense of life.

Note to self, check to see what time a store opens before driving there. Sidenote - 11am, really Ikea?

Side Notes

I’m always on the prowl for cheap (read FREE) iPhone apps, and finding a simple source for such is no easy task, at least in my searches. Unfortunately, all the sites I’ve found that cover this type of information are so full of ads and poorly designed, it’s impossible to actually find anything useful. I have however recently discovered at dealmac.com a RSS feed specifically for discounted iPhone/iPod Touch apps.. I can’t say that I’ve actually found any great deals yet through it, (I haven’t had a chance to play the recent “Let’s Golf!” game posted today), but it’s a start. And don’t get me wrong, I have no problem paying for a quality app, and do so with perhaps too regular of frequency, but still like finding a deal when I can, especially on games, which I know I’ll only play a few times, or very rarely.
Do you have any sites or feeds that you’d care to share? Tips on finding apps on sale?
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I was pleasantly surprised this afternoon by a comment left here on the site that my first Habari theme, Mzingi, had been ported to another CMS, WolfCMS. Though I’ve since passed Mzingi off to the official Habari project, and is now owned by the community and part of the official download, it’s a bit rewarding to see it deemed worthy of porting. You can see a demo of it in action as a WolfCMS theme.
It’s also nice they gave attribution on the official site. I’d not heard of the project before, seems like a young project that is a fork of another CMS project, but their site describes the project as something akin to Habari.
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It’s always great to see new themes released for Habari, even if they are ports. Florian has ported the WordPress theme Clean Home to Habari. The theme’s name aptly describes the design, a clean, black and white two column design with contrasting red headings. The theme seems to be coded for trunk, that is, using the areas feature. One thing I noticed is that the theme still has some cruft from WP, calling for a dynamic sidebar (widgets) with some text that also references a text widget and and admin options. I of all people can understand though of wanting to get something out before working out all the kinks, so I’m sure he’ll update it as soon as the areas/blocks feature is fleshed out a bit more. I also don’t speak German, so it’s quite possible he references that in the post announcing the release.
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You’d think “Canada’s best magazine”, The Walrus would at least link back to my bookmarks if they are going to use my graphics in their post about Infinite Summer. Heck, they didn’t even change the name of the image from the 5x bookmark file. Real professional Nav, real professional…
At least they didn’t just hotlink to the image in my post.
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I’ve recently been using Safari 4 beta, mostly because I had been too lazy to get more RAM, and Firefox was just too damn slow with all the apps I’d have open on only 1 gig. Now that I’m at 4 gigs, I’ve been contemplating going back to Firefox, especially with the comments I’ve been reading about the speed improvements of the next version (3.5??). Another reason I’ve been contemplating going back to Firefox is that Firebug is just far superior to Safari’s built in inspector. To that end, I’ve recently come across two add-ons for Firebug.
The first, Firefinder, is a handy tool to “find HTML elements matching chosen CSS selector(s) or XPath expression”.
The second is one that Google previously used internally. Today they open sourced it and released, Page Speed. Page Speed allows developers to “evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.”
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