Political Compass
– take the test, map yourself (probably more interesting than a Briggs-Meyers). I’m a -3.5, -5.69.

Open Park – wifi internet access on the national Mall

Truer words were never spoken – from Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver (p. 407):

“…It may seem hard for you to believe, but mark my word—whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.”

It might be his character Jack Shaftoe speaking, but that sure is telegraphed directly to the reader…

POSTAL LABELS AGAINST BUSH – such a beautiful hack… modified labels saying USPS doesn’t recognize Bush’s Presidency reinserted in the supplies for “general use”.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time – Best High School Computer Room Time Waster Evar – and now in Flash

Just quickly – the web and database now lives on cardhu, the FreeBSD box, along with qmail and Courier – no longer on oban, the Win2k box. As part of this whole hullaballoo, I moved to php5, and new versions of SquirrelMail and Gallery (drawn from ports – that and cvsup make FreeBSD ROCK.)

The net net for most people – both the regular gallery and the friends gallery are on new versions, with new “skins”…

I Found Some Of Your Life – a memory card found in a taxi being posted daily to the world. [Update: since removed]

Some new pictures are up, in the usual place (email me at gmail or elsewhere to get the location).

Included in this round are shots from the Orchard Family Reunion (which resulted in Cooper’s first flight) through our recent trip to Hiltonhead.

Speaking of Gmail, I have a few invites left. If anybody wants one, post a link to my site on your own blog, and let me know about it…

Some incredibly gorgeous aerial photos.

From George Orwell’s essay, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946

Must strive to meet these rules:

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

2. Never us a long word where a short one will do.

3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.