posted 7/3/2009 9:31 PM
There is no other place on the planet that idolizes the automobile the way we do in the U.S. Yes, most of the world has cars, and yes, some of the best cars in the world are made by foreign nations, but at the end of the day, cars are a fundamental part of American culture. Cars are status symbols, primary and essential modes of transportation, sex symbols, entertainment, subjects for art and trash, they're idols, they're sources of frustration, they're money pits, and they're a part of everything that makes us who we are.
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posted 6/30/2009 4:47 PM
Well well well, looks like we're a scant five days away from the birth of a nation. Just shy of 233 years ago, a few politics nerds were blowing the ink-setting powder off the 'well, it's good enough now' draft of the Declaration of Independence from Britain document. Less than three centuries is nothing in civilization's terms, but in modern history it's an enormous chunk of time.
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posted 5/24/2009 11:35 AM
OK, so first of all, in the wake of my mom joining Facebook, she's gotten really into it. And as a result, I told her I should set her up with a blog - so now I've got a couple of pending blog posts in my inbox, and that means soon I have to make good. Nothing like incurring another project!
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Thanks to my good friend and co-worker Eric Toffey, I've finally had a chance to get hottes.com redesigned and relaunched. This is actually the final step in a lot of work that I've been doing on my hosting and whatnot for months.
I've been moving around my hosting and e-mail junk and otherwise doing some nerd heavy lifting for a while, and after a request to Eric I had this awesome new design ready in short order.
The site is running on a backend of ASP.NET 3.5 on no particular CMS platform. I wanted a nice and simple design so I wouldn't have to spend ages writing code to run it. The blog portion is pulling in posts using the Community Server API.
As for the design, Eric put it together in far less time than I could have imagined. He's always coming up with new ways to torture me with weird CSS situations I have to figure out how to make work. I looked around and found a nice, simple, CSS-friendly javascript 'accordion' in the MooFX javascript library. All the other HTML and CSS is mine and mine alone.
Until I decide the best format to re-post or excerpt my columns, here's a link to my columns at the Electric City web site:
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