Making good on Sen. John McCain's threat to withhold all Republican cooperation from Democrats in the Senate in retribution for the majority party using reconciliation to pass health care reform, the GOP used the rule that states committees can only meet when the chamber is in session with the unanimous consent of all members. That consent has ( Read more... )

I am going back to school, studying Management at GGU in San Francisco two nights a week. My first class was last night ( Read more... )

Do you select, copy, and paste text from websites to send interesting tidbits to friends?

A new product called Tracer is a bit of javascript that can be used to see what someone is copying from your website, which is pretty cool. It can also be used to alter the contents of your buffer after you hit ^C, which is decidedly uncool ( Read more... )

I'm selling some old (and new) camera gear, and a one-year-old Apple 500GB time capsule, on these No-Reserve, $0.99 auctions on eBay. Feel free to bid:

Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS USM Lens, New

Nikon D70 Camera Body, Used

Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED-IF Lens, Used

Nikon AF NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8D Lens, Used

Apple Time Capsule, 500GB, Used

As a follow up to my previous entry about my PRK vision correction surgery back in March, I'm happy to report that I had my three month checkup today and I have 20/15 in both eyes.

:D

New also opposed laws proposed by Daly, which the mayor is expected to veto and the board is unlikely to be able to override. Daly's package included expanding the rights of tenants who want to add roommates, and limiting the amount of so-called banked rent increases in which annual increases allowed under city laws are saved up and then imposed ( Read more... )

I had PRK 9 days ago. I didn't have many expectations other than it being very unpleasant. My eyes are so sensitive I was never able to wear contacts, or even easily get eye drops in. There were, of course, a lot of eye drops before the surgery. They give you an eye-ball stress ball to squeeze during the surgery.

And I squeezed the vitreous ( Read more... )

A technique to fingerprint individual sheets of paper is described in a Boing Boing repost of a freedom-to-tinker.com article.

While this technique could be used to prevent forgeries, the implications to the loss of anonymity are pretty frightening:

Our technique is secure against counterfeiting and robust to harsh handling; it can be used even ( Read more... )

On Wednesday night, on my first pass through my neighborhood, I immediately found a prime parking spot - it was on a block that never has street cleaning. As I walked home tonight after watching 'The Wrestler' at the Metreon, I decided to walk a block out of my way to check on my car, since I hadn't used it since Wednesday. It was gone ( Read more... )

I'm getting PRK sometime in the next month or two. It's sort of like LASIK, without the flap but with several days of blindness ( Read more... )