Dad’s visiting his sister in Vienna (the one in Europe, not the one outside Washington DC). Calling him there would be expensive, not to mention hard to coordinate with that 9 hour time difference, but I sent him a “Happy Father’s Day” text message. How times change.
Don’t Ban, Regulate & Educate
An advisory panel organized by Mayor Newsom has come out with recommendations on changes to local regulations regarding some potentially vicious dog breeds, notably pit bulls. It sounds like they’re on the right track & hope the plan moves forwards.
Karma gets Everyone in the End
Funny how even PETA can become that which they hate:
Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have been charged with animal cruelty after dumping dead dogs and cats in a shopping center garbage bin, police said.
Investigators staked out the bin after discovering that dead animals had been dumped there every Wednesday for the past four weeks, Ahoskie police said in a prepared statement Thursday.
PETA has scheduled a news conference for Friday in Norfolk, Virginia, where the group is based.
Police found 18 dead animals in the bin and 13 more in a van registered to PETA. The animals were from animal shelters in Northampton and Bertie counties, police said.
The two were picking up animals to be brought back to PETA headquarters for euthanization, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said Thursday.
Emphasis added.
Bummer
Starbucks Corp. will close all 17 Torrefazione Italia cafes
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Two of them are in SF and I really liked them. I guess I was one of the few who did though. Too bad.
Rosebud
Seen en route to work this morning.
I may not be cool, but this is
On the way home from the KRON event yesterday, Scott and I stopped off at a Cingular store and finally got around to unifying our cell phone accounts into one family plan, which ought to save us about $50 a month.
Of course, we offset these savings by going for the saleswoman’s offer of “buy one, get one free” on the oh-so-cool Motorola V3 Razor. So now we have a new 2 year Cingular contract and his-and-hers Razors, and I finally have a phone with a camera in it.
I’ve wanted to try photoblogging for a while but didn’t have the tools to make it happen. It’s not that hard to pull photos off my Sony digital camera onto my PC and then upload to the blog, but it’s not something I can do on the go. After poking around the net last night looking for moblogging apps, I found that Flickr has a tool that integrates with an existing Movable Type blog, and signed up. The post below shows that it works, although I have to figure out how to streamline the formatting a bit.
I could, of course, set up a full moblog here on the website; I found at least 2 freeware packages that would allow me to do it. But I’d need to set up a new MYSQL database on the web server and that would mean paying my web host some extra $. Plus it would mean some hours dusting off my old code skills to try to integrate that blog with this one. If Flickr starts to suck I might do that, but for now I’ll go the free, no coding required route.
So, expect to see some photoblogging along with the usual stuff in the future.