Archive: July 2006

German travel resources

Posted by Katja on 29 July 2006 | Permalink
Filed under disability, travel, wheelchair use | Comments are closed

I’m planning a trip to Germany in September - here are a few helpful websites I’ve come across recently:
ÖPNV-Info: Mobilitätsportal für behinderte Reisende
(German)
Deutsche Bahn - Mobility for the Disabled: Services for mobility-impaired customers. (English)
Hotel Reservation Service (English - choose Extended Search and then Facilities at hotel and in room, and you can specify a [...]

Employees, veterans laud Alaska Airlines’ support of Wheelchair Games

Posted by Katja on 19 July 2006 | Permalink
Filed under travel, wheelchair use | 1 comment

Employees, veterans laud Alaska Airlines’ support of Wheelchair Games

The Pentagon could learn a thing or two about transporting troops from the men and women of Alaska Airlines.
Last week, an army of employees across the system teamed up with the airline’s ground handling vendors to successfully move more than 260 veterans with disabilities—the equivalent of an [...]

Is Opera on the way out?

Posted by Katja on 16 July 2006 | Permalink
Filed under web design | 2 comments so far

I really love the Opera browser, and would hate to give it up. But stuff is starting to not work - Airset’s CSS doesn’t render properly, and hides vast quantities of information. Fastmail has redesigned some of its pages, and they’re not being styled right either. I’d rather see an open field of browsers rather [...]

Alas, poor English

Posted by Katja on 7 July 2006 | Permalink
Filed under language | 6 comments so far

English is going to hell in a handbasket, hastened to its destination by military and quasi-military law enforcement-speak.
An actual quote from FBI Assistant Director Mark J. Mershon, courtesy of today’s news (I am not making this up):

They were about to go to a phase where they would attempt to surveil targets, establish a regimen of [...]

Wrap Rage

Posted by Katja on 2 July 2006 | Permalink
Filed under current events | 2 comments so far

So obvious, once it’s pointed out: Wrap Rage.
I bought an electric toothbrush the other day; spent at least 15 minutes trying to get it out of its packaging and my hands hurt for the rest of the day.

Spiffing the place up a little

Posted by Katja on 2 July 2006 | Permalink
Filed under web design, wordpress | 1 comment

It was time to update the place a little. My webhost, DreamHost, provides a spiffy install/upgrade utility for WordPress, but it’s no good if you installed WordPress yourself back in the Dark Ages.
I had been upgrading manually, but was a couple of revs behind. My old theme, based on Sub:Lemon, was written for WP 1.5 [...]