Fortunately for Milwaukee, the common council voted against the $41 million in city financing for the Pabst City development plan. No (additional) government-subsidized entertainment venues for Milwaukee at the moment. Recently the Riverside Theatre closed, citing unfair competition from the Milwaukee Theatre, which was renovated with money from bonds issued by the city. […]
I just finished a reading this one. In this book, the author, Thomas Frank, discusses how those in the "heartland" of America have been won over by the extreme Right . The people of middle America are voting against their own interests on almost all counts because the Republican party has convinced them that […]
(My Cousin) Vinny Carpenter turned me on to this great free PHP webmmail program called Squirrel Mail . It’s great if your hosting provider doesn’t have web access to your email account, or as in my case, your employer has blocked access to your normal webmail URL. You can configure it to have […]
Under no circumstances should you ever use MICFO for web hosting. I have now moved back to my old hosting service after less than 24 hours with MICFO. So far on the first day, I have barely been able to connect to my site. They claim it was a denial of service attack, and that […]
I just started using this great site called Flickr. I think I might use it instead of hosting all of my pictures myself. I like it so much, I may even pay for the professional account.
More of my photos
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Well, I spent most of the weekend converting my old blogger.com blog to Wordpress. I have to admit, it is very cool. I must have tried every theme about ten times before I settled on this one. I probably should have waited to do all of this work considering that I’m going […]
Check out my updated the updated photo gallery.
I used JAlbum to create the photo galleries. Very nice tool if you want to host the photo galleries yourself and have a lot of control. I still need to update the safari gallery, but I will wait until I find a new web […]
Just found these great sites about fighting poverty in Africa:
DATA - co-founded by Bono of U2
Also check out ONE the American arm of Make Poverty History.
Today is globle white band day. You can purchase the white wristbands from ONE. Also, make sure to watch Live8 tomorrow. Live8 hopes to raise awareness of […]
It’s official, I’m a (bigger) nerd. I’ve started a blog. I should probably stop fighting the inevitable and just buy the full stormtrooper outfit now.