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November 29, 2005
Firefox 1.5 has been released but......
The one and only "1.5 Out" thread - MozillaZine Forums
Well, it's here:1.5, but as usual, I'm a hostage to my extensions. I'll be watching the MozillaZine Firefox forums to see what users think of the new release, and see if some of the issues in RC3 were resolved. This thread's initial post has links to several articles. It's the thread to watch for most average users.
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November 28, 2005
Krispy Kreme in Sacto....History
KCRA.com - News - Local Doughnut Shop Outlasts Krispy Kreme
National Chain Shuts Down Sacramento Store
POSTED: 8:44 am PST November 23, 2005
I am so happy about this. I mean joyous, punch-a-hole-in-the-wall, smash-a- guitar happy. Ever since the Bee "intervened" in the Elk Grove Krisy Kreme project, I have been on an anti-Krispy Kreme jihad. I hate them. Yes, I said it. With this news in mind, I plan to goto their competitors, Donut City, and buy a sinful dozen donuts and a large, regular coffee, and sit in victory on the steps of the Krispy Kancor and relish the moment, snapping a few photos.
If I were to allow myself a "flight of fancy", I would gingerly deposit a well crafted Poo Donut on their store front. That is how much I detest Krispy Kreme. One down, two to go. I will dress up as a giant donut and dance if the Elk Grove hole factory closes down. Yippee!
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November 27, 2005
Page 2 - A POCKET GUIDE TO THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RECORDS ACT
A SERVICE OF:
THE FIRST AMENDMENT PROJECT
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL
JOURNALISTS (Nor. Cal.)
Freedom of Information Committee - Northern CA Chapter
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Posted by cystdog at 11:02 PM
Page 1 - A POCKET GUIDE TO THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RECORDS ACT
A SERVICE OF:
THE FIRST AMENDMENT PROJECT
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL
JOURNALISTS (Nor. Cal.)
Freedom of Information Committee - Northern CA Chapter
Guide source:
HTML | PDF
Posted by cystdog at 10:59 PM
November 26, 2005
TMobile website bails on firefox support?
I went to check out my cell phone usage summary with tmobile, and low and behold, I discover that tmobile no longer supports firefox browsers. Not sure if this is just a web site update gone bad or what, but I've been using firefox regularly since June '04 for tmobile, and never had a problem. I didn't try the other tmobile subdomains, but it's just a big pain in the ass if they backpeddle and walk away from maintaining a cross-browser compliant web site. Funny thing is, is that their phones running Symbian use the Opera web browser. I wonder if their site is still rendering properly in Opera and the Symbian version of Opera?
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November 24, 2005
Dormant @ Mather Lake
Posted by cystdog at 11:14 AM
November 22, 2005
More manufactured plastic Smart Growth E-Culture
ULI - the Urban Land Institute | Alternative Anchors
by Patricia L. Kirk
With ambience becoming more important than ever, the gathering place is beginning to replace the anchor.
Excerpt:
On any Saturday night, long after stores have closed, the square at Victoria Gardens regional shopping center in Rancho Cucamonga, California, is filled with families watching free outdoor movies, he notes. Planned on a street grid, Victoria Gardens, a 1.3 million-square-foot joint project of Forest City and California-based Lewis Investment Company LLC, serves as a town center for a 247-acre mixed-use project that includes office space and public facilities. The retail/entertainment component is designed around the project’s iconic location along historic Route 66 (now Interstate 15) and at the heart of a winery region in the southern California foothills. The project has three architecturally distinct districts representing Spanish colonial days to the present century, providing visitors a sense of the region’s past.
Posted by cystdog at 12:39 AM
If they can do it, could we?
The Center for Civic Participation- Inland Voters Use Recall as a Way to Slow Growth
By Ashley Powers and Susannah Rosenblatt, Times Staff Writers
October 17, 2005 - LA Times
The dust-up in Muscoy began on a December night last year, when a newly elected county supervisor came to talk about cleaning up ratty neighborhoods and luring businesses.Linda Thacker pictured her avocado orchard being razed to make way for another wave of red-tile roofs and latte drinkers. She had roosted in this small, unincorporated pocket near Cal State San Bernardino much of her life, and preferred living next door to chickens and goats.
"I don't want my neighbors so close that I can hear them flush their toilets," Thacker said.
So she and other residents decided they wanted to give San Bernardino County Supervisor Josie Gonzales the bum's rush — California style. They launched a recall campaign.
Posted by cystdog at 12:24 AM
Name that town!
The article below got me to thinking; What would you name your town if you were to base the naming criteria on political contributions and or influence?
The first name that hit me like a UPS truck was Aerojet. Then AKT City and Blanasville/SCSD came to mind.
What would you name your city?
Opinion - Editorial: What's in a name? - sacbee.com
A tiny town takes the money and tunes in
Published 2:15 am PST Monday, November 21, 2005
Story appeared in Editorials section, Page B4
One of our favorite news stories of the last few days concerned the fate of Clark, Texas, or at least the fate of its name. In exchange for a decade's worth of free satellite TV service for Clark's 125 residents, the town changed its name to Dish.
Posted by cystdog at 12:17 AM
November 20, 2005
City Hall Reloaded
Posted by cystdog at 05:50 PM
November 08, 2005
Fingers crossed
Things aren't looking too good for the cityhood measure for El Dorado Hills Incorporation. As of 10:30 PM, with 23.88% of precincts reporting (5 of 21), the vote was at 39.8% for, 60.1% against. This isn't over, so I hope when I wake up tomorrow, the tables are turned. Cityhood isn't a cure all, and sometimes the wrong element sneaks in to run the show, but one thing is for certain, once you're incorporated, you can throw out the bums in office. One pissed off neighborhood can make a difference, one bad project, one bad ordinance, one bad meeting CAN cost a council member their seat. Not so with the Board of Supervisors of a county with many communities and cities. I hope they get cityhood in El Dorado Hills, otherwise Folsom might try to gobble them up. :)
Posted by cystdog at 11:08 PM
November 06, 2005
The pot of Gold many of us seek: Commitment
Newlyweds are usually expected to wax philosophically about commitment, about undying love and expressions of eternal commitment, but this post by Six Apart VP Anil Dash whose just gotten married stood out to me. His reference to the commitment to family and how for him marriage fell within those boundaries is something I feel strongly about, and have tried to practice in my own life in relationships. I point his post comments out because for many, in the circle of family and friends I have (who are disproportioantely divorced and/ or have remarried/recommitted), marital commitment is discussed much like the discussion about an insurance policy; the premiums, the deductables, the clauses. Check out his post.
Excerpt:
"The defining trait of marriage in these contexts is that the commitment comes first. It doesn't occur to most people to get upset that they don't get to choose their siblings; You just love your brother or sister, or you try to, and you fight sometimes and you disagree, and then you get over it, and that's what family is about. And in some ways, marriage can be like that, too. There's a liberation in knowing you don't have an easy out: You know you're going to make it work, and you're not going to give up.So one of the great things about having had the perspective of another culture's look at marriage was realizing that there's a freedom in knowing you can always count on the commitment as a framework that you work within. The absence of that immutable commitment was the thing I most lamented and was dismayed by in so many of the marriages I saw growing up. And it made it easier to know when I was ready and that I'd found the right person who shared that desire, even in a thoroughly American context."
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November 01, 2005
A snapshot of traffic: Anatolia style
News - Fatal accident, light-rail malfunction mar Highway 50 commute - sacbee.com
By Tony Bizjak -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 12:06 pm PST Tuesday, November 1, 2005
[Updated: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday] A fatal freeway accident and a nearby power outage on the light-rail transit line delivered a one-two punch Tuesday morning that brought the Highway 50 corridor commute to a near-standstill for thousands.
Motorists complained of waiting 45 minutes on Sunrise Boulevard just to get onto the freeway, and Carrero estimated that some commuters were stalled for more than one hour.
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