Well, it’s time to update again. I’ve been trying to catch up on a number of things around home this weekend, and “blogging” has made it to the top of the list.
And it’s been a pretty long list this weekend. I really wish I had more time-off at work so I could take tomorrow off and continue to plow through all the various things I need to do, but that’s not in the cards. The biggest item is a customer that I hadn’t heard from since last October, who’s finally gotten all the things to me that I need to finish putting together a website for them. They contacted me again just before I left on vacation, and I told them that there was no way I was going to be able to get things done before July 4th (which of course meant a half-dozen phone messages when I returned from vacation). Well, that deadline is approaching, and I need to start putting the pieces together so I can finally invoice that work. It might actually make the difference between a profit and a loss on the business for 2006.
Speaking of which, if you (or someone you know) is reasonably clued about Dreamweaver, and is looking for a bit of freelance work, please contact me. I won’t have a lot of work to spread around, but I need a part time designer/web mechanic to take care of things now and again, and all my current contacts for that sort of thing don’t have the free time. People say the economy is still slow, but I’ve had enough trouble finding help for various jobs that I’m convinced it’s in pretty good shape.
And that’s going to do it for now. I’ve decided that I’m going to try and continue blogging at least weekly (rather than weakly) through the rest of the summer. That might be too ambitious of a plan, but it just might be workable. I think it’s worth trying, at least.
- Rather than uploading them here, I’ve been posting my Vacation 2006 photos on Flickr. It’s taking me a lot longer to process them than I had hoped, and I don’t feel like messing about with the photo scripts here on my server. Hopefully this is just temporary, but folks wanted to see them, and flickr was the quickest way to do that.
- There were two protests in Vienna when I was there on June 21. The website for the larger is www.bushgohome.at, but it’s all in German, so probably will be of minimal interest to most of my readers (a few will appreciate it, though). For me, the biggest pain was the Bush Space set aside for the “protection” of the President.
- A Flickr search for Vienna Protest Bush turns up a fair number of photos, but there was the smaller protest downtown with hundreds of people, and then the larger protest at Westbahnhof Wien, which was near where I was staying. In spite of between one and two thousand police mobilised, and fifteen to twenty thousand protesters out, and traffic completely shut down for at least a half-kilometer radius, there were no incidents between protesters and the police. At least three stages were set up before the protest, two with bands, and one with shouting speeches. Within two hours after the start of the protest, everyone had dispersed, and things were pretty much back to normal.
- It was interesting to see how the larger protest in Vienna developed, especially when compared to Friday’s Critical Mass for the storybooks here in Minneapolis where police arrested a number of bicyclists. The Austrian prediliction for “Ordnung” seemed to work out pretty well for them. Yes, the protest was an immense pain in the ass, but in spite of that, it was very conrolled. Even when there’s disorder, it’s planned, and … well … orderly. Here in Minneapolis, I’m usually reminded of Mayor Daley’s quote during the 1968 convention:
The police are not here to create disorder. They’re here to preserve disorder.
[jim] - This Photo gallery of Dust art is pretty cool. Scott Wade draws pictures in the dust on the back windows of his and his wife’s cars.
- Here’s a list of ten guidelines of How to Photograph Pets. Cool tips. [dpweblog]
- Looking to get into blogging in a small way? TC Metblog is looking for new authors! I’ve been contacted about joining the crew there, but I think for now I’m going to stick to trying to keep things updated around here. [metro mpls]