I added 77 new photographs to the galleries, including lots of fireworks from the Potomac Cannons, and several sets of photos from the opening day of the National World War II Memorial.
University of Phoenix is desperate
I just got some junk mail from the University of Phoenix. It was sent to me at work, with one the web sites I manage as the company name on the address label. Wow, I am so excited! I can now get my Bachelor’s degree. Wow! I guess my Masters Degree doesn’t count for anything. What a lame company, to manually scrape web sites looking for recruits, and totally ignoring the facts that were right in front of them. Idiots. Everyone raise your hands if you got your degree through a school you learned about through junk mail.
Home Page Tweaks
Some people mentioned that the new site was a bit blah. So to add a bit of color, I have added four random photos from my Photo Gallery to the bottom of the home page. They rotate randomly from the various galleries, and of course you can select (click on) the photo to see the others in that collection. The annoying thing is that you can tell that I have used several different programs to generate the thumbnails, because there are several different sizes of images. And yes, I have new photos to upload, hopefully tomorrow I’ll have time to do that.
1984
“George Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning; the Bush administration uses it as an instruction manual.”
The Internet
“The Internet is not about technology. It’s about relationships.” – Phil Madsen, Jesse Ventura’s Webmaster
Support Sunset Provisions of the PATRIOT Act!
Legislation is pending in the U.S. House of Representatives to expand the USA PATRIOT Act — and there are reports that it will get slipped into an intelligence agency bill that is debated and voted on behind closed doors. Urge your Representative to oppose this bill, and to oppose allowing these important issues to be decided without public participation. Congress should be adding oversight provisions and judicial checks and balances to the PATRIOT Act, not expanding it behind closed doors. (link dead, removed 2013-07-07)
Doh! Wasn’t expecting this:
Make lots of extra $$$ in your spare time! Get a job!
Wired: “Web Helps Out Adoption Process”
A very interesting article at Wired: Web Helps Out Adoption Process.
We Can Hear Them!
The cicadas have moved into our neighborhood. We can hear them. Spooky, they sound like a space ship landing.
Six more Applications
I just prepared six more applications against junk mailers, mostly local. It is quite annoying that all commercial mailers do not include a return mailing address. I do a google search, but some businesses can’t be found online. So I call the phone number given, and they don’t have any useful info on there, they just want you to leave your contact info so they can get back in touch with you. Yeah, I’m so sure I’ll leave you my information.
I also emailed one of these companies to get their address. Their web host is so screwed up, their email bounced with relay errors. you have got to love junk mailers, they are so close to the competence levels of spammers. Maybe a junk mailer bred with another junk mailer to give us spammers?
The Post Office though will give me the mailing address of the Bulk Permit owner. But it will cost me $4.40. Let me get this straight: First I have to get this garbage in my mailbox. Then I have to pay the USPS to get the address to complain about. Then I have to pay postage to mail the forms into the Post Office.
