about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Jason Kottke pointed out that the whitehouse.gov robots.txt file was changed almost immediately after the inauguration … It went from this … User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /search Disallow: /query.html Disallow: /omb/search Disallow: /omb/query.html Disallow: /expectmore/search Disallow: /expectmore/query.html Disallow: /results/search Disallow: /results/query.html Disallow: /earmarks/search Disallow: /earmarks/query.html Disallow: /help Disallow: /360pics/text Disallow: /911/911day/text Disallow: /911/heroes/text …
about 2 years ago - No comments
Ok, yeah, it’s Saturday Night Live … and, yup, it’s the election season … but I really enjoyed Barak Obama’s cameo on TV … [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/ndQM0X5rhfE" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] And, yes, I still think that Clinton has absolutely no right to her current position in the Senate … and absolutely will not vote for
about 3 years ago - No comments
I found this somewhere on the ‘net a while ago … thought it might be worth reposting: There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light. The programmer’s national anthem is ‘AAAAAAAARRRRGHHHHH!!’. At
about 3 years ago - No comments
A few months ago the Village of Hoffman Estates sent us a letter informing us that they would be reconstructing our street.Last week, Ginny and I went out of town … we left on Wednesday (June 13th) evening and got back yesterday (the 17th) . As we drove home from the airport, we noticed that
about 3 years ago - No comments
As a believer in free content, I salute Senator Obama for his request to license the democratic debates under the Creative Commons (Attribution) license. I am a strong believer in the importance of copyright, especially in a digital age. But there is no reason that this particular class of content needs the protection. We have
about 3 years ago - 1 comment
I gotta hand it to the Illinois Department of Revenue … they got the online tax filing system right. The system to file your taxes online is simple, straight forward, and fast. Although I did use TurboTax to calculate the taxes, I entered the information directly into the states web site and was done in
