Audio of humpback whales in Alaska, via BBC Radio 4. Really wondrous stuff.
Part One
Part Two

And this World on the Move episode about the migration of whales and all kinds of birds is just so charming.

Later today I will go over to Microsoft main campus to be a participant in a usability/accessibility study for ... uh, I forget which product. It was funny, because during the initial quasi-interview they asked what level of user I considered myself: "beginner, novice, intermediate, advanced, expert" and I said probably somewhere between advanced ( Read more... )

I just started taking the certificate courses in web development at www.oreillyschool.com. (It was the first place I found that offered a course in AJAX, and I figured brushing up on CSS and Javascript wouldn't be a bad thing, either ( Read more... )

This link, as passed on by tikva. I especially like the acknowledgment that discrimination does exist (a lot of times medical and community-living issues are nodded to, and sometimes education, but not usually employment discrimination.) It may just be election year pandering, but people with disabilities are so rarely treated as a demographic worth ( Read more... )

One of the blogs I read pretty regularly is John Taplin's Blog. I like it for the depth of discussion and analysis that is fairly well versed in history and philosophy. Even when I don't quite agree, the discussions are usually compelling, and it is a kind of discussion that I miss -- a lot of the blog world is the very personal, or the overly ( Read more... )

So I'm out with clamboy and desolina last night, going to see the Red Elvises at the Tractor, when I get a text message from my brother. "Can I call you? I have a very silly question ( Read more... )

( Behind the cut. Let me know if I mislabelled anything. )

Even though I was going to be in town for about 10 days, somehow everything got scheduled for my first Saturday in town. It couldn't be helped. Boston is one of the few places in the country where there is a real blind sailing program. They have recreational sailing trips almost every Saturday morning, but since the following Saturday would be ( Read more... )

I interrupt my lengthy exposition on my recent travels for this comment on the latest shenannigans from the worst presidential administration in history...

WTF???
Thanks tikva

The plane lands in Chicago O'Hare and I get off the plane* walk up the jetway unassisted (much to the chagrin of at least one flight attendant; I don't really understand why they think a blind person would need help walking *OFF* a plane, it's basically a straight line to the door and you can hear where that is, and jetways aren't particularly ( Read more... )