Archive: July 2004
Moan
It should be against the law to have MS and migraines.
New toys
I installed Apache and PHP on my computer this week. Now I can convert rmvr.com to PHP on my trip to Albuquerque next week (doesn’t everybody need something interesting to do in their hotel room?).
Complicated favours
I was on my way out of Borders this evening, just waiting for an elderly couple to come in when they stopped dead in the second double doorway, staring at me, apparently in shock or fright. The woman recovered, but did not budge from the door as she asked, “Are you going out?”
I briefly considered [...]
Motorized wheelchair ties up highway traffic
ABC7Chicago.com: Motorized wheelchair ties up highway traffic
This story seems to have hit every news outlet in the universe, but none of them have identified the point - paratransit services across the United States are consistently unreliable.
Charmed life
I’m living a charmed life.
One of the things my Beloved likes to point out about me is that I sometimes make mistakes. With important things, like plane tickets.
When I booked tickets for my trip with Eldest Son to Baltimore in August, I checked them very, very carefully. Imagine my surprise this evening when Frontier Airlines [...]
Finding time to exercise
My Beloved and I went to the Rec Center over the weekend to play with the weight machines. I could barely do a leg curl, even without weight, but I could row at the highest resistance for ten minutes.
My Beloved believes (or tries to believe) that whatever ails a body can be cured with exercise. [...]
Blogging by email
The blog entry sent by email has added line breaks, which screwed up an anchor tag. It was posted by site-admin, which I don’t like very much, and you have to actively run wp-mail.php to get WordPress to check for mail and post it.
Since I rarely use a cellphone and don’t do email that way, [...]
Testing blogging by email
Wordpress allows you to blog via
email, so I’m trying it out. I’m not sure about the instruction that
says: The “content” of the email will be the content of the post in
the web log. A string of three underscores in a row like thus : ___.
Headlines
Hugh Gallagher dies. Hugh Gallagher was a complex and interesting man, a champion for disability rights. His book FDR’s Splendid Deception, about the lengths to which Roosevelt and cooperative media went to conceal his disability, is highly recommended.
Via Scott Rains, revised Access Guidelines for the ADA have been released, unfortunately with very little publicity. The [...]
WiFi at the Boulder library!
WiFi Internet Access: Available at the Boulder Public Library - an open hotspot, very cool. Now if they’d just get some comfortable chairs …
Guide rates train station accessibility in Japan
Guide rates stations’ wheelchair access: Asahi Shimbun:
A virtual bible ranking the wheelchair accessibility of the nation’s major train and subway stations this year contains good news for many. The gospel is that wheelchair accessibility at stations continues to improve, although there is still a ways to go.
Registration idiocy
More and more online news providers are requiring subscriptions. Check out Simon Willison’s blog for some good discussion about registration. I was amused to discover that Lancaster Online requires its readers to be at least 4 years old (2000 - 2004 were rejected as invalid birth years), but less than 999 years old [...]
Something easy to do with raspberries
This recipe is based on one from a long lost food processor cookbook.
Yummy Frozen Raspberry stuff
4 cups raspberries
1 pint heavy cream
sugar to taste (I usually start with half a cup - remember that frozen things need to be sweeter)
Whir all ingredients in a food processor. Freeze until just before serving. Run it around the food [...]
Celebrating the Underblog - 2004
Via Jennifer, this looks like fun: Celebrating the Underblog - 2004.
Smithsonian Project on Disability
Smithsonian Project on Disability - the Smithsonian is preparing an exhibit on the history of polio. Check out Scott’s entry above for information, and for how you can help contribute your stories of access denied in the polio era.
No comments?
I’m starting to see more blogs that don’t have any kind of commenting enabled, which I find frustrating. I hit two or three of them just today.
Is it that bugaboo of the late twentieth century, low self esteem? “Nobody will even read my blog, much less want to comment.”
Or is it paranoia? “If I let [...]
Compliment
From mdmhvonpa:
Inger always makes you feel that you have given her the moon when you hand her a fork. She has got to be the most gracious person I have ever met.
No one will ever say anything as nice as that about me.
Things to do with a used wheelchair
A work colleague scavenged a depot chair that was thrown out by the Center for People With Disabilities next door, and turned it into a bass fiddle carrier for his kid:
Words had to change their meanings
To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change their usual meanings. What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of [...]
Flags at Half Mast on July 4th?
Via Fazia, a link to an article explaining the conflict between flag protocols: Honoring Reagan, Flag Day Rules Conflict.
I find all this flag protocol stuff interesting but simultaneously amusing; my father was a Foreign Service officer, so I’m intimately familiar with State Department diplomatic protocol, but my mother was a refugee from Nazi Germany who [...]
As long as I’m complaining
What’s with all the commas in posts to bulletin boards? You’ve seen them, haven’t you?
Reception was good, lots of food/music.. laughs,, we had 258 people go thru the food line,, the beer dissappeared,, me drink ?.. come on gang,, some of you know, how much I love beer,,I drank my share, and danced..They played the [...]
Language Abuse
Heard at a business meeting last week: “Desirement”
In a software change request: “Pair down the size of [item]”
In a list of document revisions: “Second Revision | Third Revision | Forth Revision”
In email, to indicate agreement with the previous writer: “DIDO!” (and Aeneas?)
These people have to be caught, and educated.
Mastering mod_rewrite
Via DenkZEIT, URL Rewriting Guide.
Remodeling
Looks like we’re (and when I say “we”, of course I include myself because somebody has to be the moral support) going to do some remodeling. My beloved (aka The Man Who Must Do Everything Himself) is ready to go to work. Details on the Home Modifications page.
How to Help Someone with MS
I came across Erik’s MS Blog via mdmhvonpa (someday I’m going to have to figure out what that stands for so that I can remember how to spell it - all I’ve got so far is that I think “pa” = Pennsylvania).
Erik’s postings reveal how very consuming an MS diagnosis, the symptoms, and the treatments [...]
Woo-hoo!
I managed a half hour of weeding in the hot sun before collapsing on the field and being dragged off by my daughter. I must be going into remission.
Nebraska church makes worship and fellowship more accessible
Nebraska church makes worship and fellowship more accessible
“Our members need to do more for our church to reach out to the disabled,” Peterson said. “We learn so much from them about our own faith walks, and learn to look at life from a different perspective.”
My High Carb Lunch
A quart of cut up fruit and a hard roll.
I’m happy.
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