Danny Novo
From the monthly archives: June 2005
We bought a mandoline yesterday. I was planning on going to Williams-Sonoma, since we have a gift certificate, but I got a wild hair while I was at the grocery store, and I bought one (next door, at Linens-n-Things). It’s the Oxo one. We used it last night to thinly slice a cucumber and an […]
Okay, so I was all set to relate the wonders of Honest Tea, a tea drink in a bottle ($1.35 here in the middle of the Midwest) that was billed to me as delightful and only slightly sweet. I have a sweet tooth when it comes to drinks, and it would do me good to […]
Yesterday, I spent six (6) hours chasing down one (1) bug in a web-based program I am writing for work. Oy. This is going to get a bit geeky. I have a form that pulls data for a select box from a MySQL database. Based on what the user chooses in that select (a drop-down box for […]
I have an ISP, Globat.com. I am going to be rid of them soon, perhaps sooner than I thought, if I have my way. I used to park my Internet presence with Earthlink, but they cost a lot, and I had been shown this little company called Globat that offered a ton of space for […]
Just a quick update on Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA), sponsor of the Flag Amendment currently working its way through the Senate (it seems it may pass?). It turns out, according to the Washington Post in this article, that he may be a little too patriotic, to the tune of $700,000 from a defense contractor. If […]
So, yesterday was apparently Flag Day. Whatever. _USA Today_ ran an Editorial about how a Flag Amendment (you know, the oft defeated attempt to criminalize the burning of the US flag) was misguided, etc. But they also ran an “opposing” editorial, by Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA), the sponsor of the latest Flag Amendment legislation. You […]
