Archive: August 2003
Spam in comments
I got spammed in my comments, by someone from IP 61.181.5.155 (CHINANET Tianjin province network, administrative contact Dongmei Kou). I’m not quite sure what to do about it - I’ve banned the IP, but that’s not going to help. It was very explicit - not the “nice article, keep up the good work. lookup zip [...]
Miscellaneous News
Disabled-access fixes too costly, says retailer
Renovation improves access for disabled fans
SDSU creates Web site to assist disabled
Sea-Tac makes it easier to get disabled travelers to the airport
More Metro churches minister to deaf, blind
And in the honorary iBot category…
Japan ready to market “robot suit”
Keeping track of comments
How do you keep track of comments you’ve posted to other people’s blogs? I’ll comment on something, forget to check back for a couple of days, then find out that there was actually a discussion going on I would have liked to have been a part of if I had known it was happening.
Blog comments [...]
All Crutched Out
On the one hand, good news, I’ve been well enough to use crutches almost exclusively for the last couple of weeks.
But into every picnic, a little rain must fall - with crutch use comes back pain, wrist pain and numbness in the hands.
Oh, well.
Fire Hazard
From the BBC’s Ouch! website, read Mik Scarlet’s column “What did you just call me?”.
Relative Risk
An acquaintance of mine is, shall we say, risk averse. His current concern is West Nile virus. He has been regaling me with counts of how many of the mosquitoes caught in his neighborhood are of the West Nile carrying variety, and how many dead and sick birds he’s found. Today he asked me how [...]
So Addicted
My email is down. Man, I’m so addicted, it’s pitiful.
Actually, I’m really pleased with my email provider. They did go down during the East Coast power outage, but gave everyone a free month’s service to compensate. Now they’re down due to a DB problem. I’ve had this account all year and this has been the [...]
Barriers in Pueblo
From Sunday’s Denver Post: Disabled See Barriers in Pueblo - a pretty balanced overview of cities’ obligations under the ADA.
We’re sorry…
…but your call could not be completed as dialed.
Maybe a month ago I read in the paper that the lady who recorded the vast majority of voice mail and automated messages had died. I’ve been hunting for the article online, but unfortunately “voice mail” is not a very useful search term.
Yesterday I made a call, [...]
When Politeness Doesn’t Work
What if the owner of an inaccessible business doesn’t respond or refuses to make any changes?
The ADA is an unfunded mandate, which means that no one is paid to inspect buildings, write citations, collect fines or make sure things get changed. It’s up to the citizenry.
Ragged Edge magazine has a series of articles about getting [...]
One Down, Thousands to Go
After my exciting afternoon at the cheese shop, I wrote to the manager. Several weeks later, she left me a voice mail expressing her desire to make changes.
A month ago, I drove by and was pleasantly surprised to find a nice sign in the front directing wheelchair users to the back, a new permit parking [...]
Where’s Janis?
It’s been, like, a week. Where’s Janis?
Fast, Casual, Helpful
I like the new fast casual food trend - you can get something that’s not a burger or deep-fried, maybe soup or salad, but you don’t pay more than $5-6 for lunch.
Some have popped up in my area: Noodles & Company, Wahoo’s Fish Tacos, Panera and Bear Rock Café.
There’s something nice they have in common: [...]
The County Fair
My sister, her husband, the two kids and I went to the county fair this week. My sister and her husband live in a large West Coast city. He’s originally from the New Jersey suburbs.
Boulder County is becoming increasingly urbanized, but it’s still refreshingly rural compared to, say, San Mateo or Fairfax.
We went in the [...]
Tired
On the one hand, I keep getting better, and am starting to think that maybe I might hope that this is possibly the very beginning of a remission.
On the other hand, this has caused me to forget the stuff I know about pacing myself and conservation of energy. I worked a full week last week, [...]
The Daily Blog
My good friend Jan has started reading this blog (hi, Jan!). She tells me she’s switched from the New York Times and coffee in the morning to brokenclay and coffee in the morning. This is her first blog.
This is a huge compliment and a heavy responsibility. Even though I know there are other people who [...]
Tired, Hung Over
Disclaimer: this is one of those “poor me, I’m so tired” entries. It probably doesn’t say anything new at all.
This weekend we had a lot of family in town. Friday I shopped for food and helped my son with the pizza dough; Saturday we packed everybody and a bunch of food and the heavy wheelchair [...]
Bloggers with Disabilities
The last couple of days have been a veritable cornucopia of bloggers with disabilities:
Becky’s Journal
The 19th Floor
monica bionica
Especially take a look at Mark Siegel’s entry Making Accessible Minds. (Mark is running Seti@Home - what’s not to like?)
Touch the Heavens
From this month’s Smithsonian Magazine, an article about Touch the Heavens, a Braille astronomy book.
Kent Cullers, who works on the SETI Institute, is the world’s first blind astronomer. The blind astronomer in the movie Contact is modelled after Cullers.
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