I’m discovering that I like the way my living room is now arranged. As I mentioned earlier, I tried to make curling up in front of the fireplace more inviting, and the TV less of a center of attention. It seems to have worked. I haven’t even turned on the TV since Monday night, instead spending Tuesday evening reading a book, and last night over at Town Hall with Mark. But the feeling I get is that the living room is going to be a fine place to hunker down for the winter as the weather gets colder.
I’m feeling almost bipolar about the work situation lately. I realized yesterday morning that I had somehow managed to invoice plenty of hours last month, in spite of feeling like I was getting nothing done the whole time. But I still find myself thinking that I need to be more productive. Luckily, I’ve got a couple leads for new gigs that should may provide more work, possibly even before the first of the year.
- Tog has a list of the Ten Most Persistent Design Bugs. Well, actually seven of the ten. I agree on most of them. They’re annoying and stupid and should have been fixed years ago. [slashdot]
- Cool. The folks behind the Wikipedia Creators Move Into News with wikinews. [wired]
- A while back, jr said It’s My Bandwidth And I’ll Screw If I Want To and talked about how he was messing with people who were poaching images off his site. I spent about an hour yesterday morning putting something similar in place. If a request for an image comes to my server, and it’s not from within my server, an alternate image gets served up. I love mod_rewrite! Of course I’m not so keen on screwing up RewriteRules the first time out and managing to crash my server, but I’m pretty sure I’ve got things right now…
- Here’s a fun little rant about Evolution And Faith.
[jwz]What bothers me deeply is when your faith or anyone else’s gets in the way of teaching this country’s children how to think rationally. Faith, almost by definition, is irrational. Creationism is faith-based. It is an irrational explanation for how we came to be here. Why would you even bother teaching your children about science at all, if you’re then going to tell them that science is right about everything except the things you believe for no good reason other than, well, you just do?
- If you’re curious about the Intelligence Bill I mentioned on Tuesday, Intelligence bill has key sticking points, Kline says has an inteview with John Kline, Congressman from Burnsville and retired Marine colonel who carried the football for former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. [strib]
- There’s some High Court High Anxiety in the War on Drugs. Seems the Raich case actually raises the issue of whether the federal government can regulate something just because they say they can. This is a great chance to see how the Supreme Court actually feels about the Constitution, I guess. Call me cautiously optimistic. [instapundit]
