A couple days ago the ubiquitous grocery store bar code turned 35.
Here is the article
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/technology/26barcode.html
For me, it is difficult watching cultural icons slip into history.
Kodachrome seems now to be one of those.
Here’s the article
http://snipurl.com/kxhhr
To hear the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujhdf9_IO4w
Just in case you want the lyrics
http://snipurl.com/kxhir
And a simple bit of history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome_(song)
The first line has always been a favorite of mine.
Here is the story from NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105680875
Bad news:
“Authorities today (19.Jun) confirmed [he] drowned at the MCM Grande Hotel pool in DeSoto [near Dallas]“
See the original article here:
http://snipurl.com/kh4f8
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A friend sent me this; I found it interesting and thought I’d share.
I provide a little piece of software called Huggins’ Email Form Script. You can see it here: http://JSH.us/hefs.
This posting won’t be particularly applicable except to people using this software.
I have some suggested improvements to the script. The current list is below. It is also posted on my site at http://JSH.us/h/hefs/huggins-email-form-script-suggested-improvements.htm.
I have crossposted the information here so you can easily make comments.
The whole purpose of this posting is to solicit your comments so please make those comments.
File Upload
Add a feature to support file upload along with the textual data. This would allow someone filling out a form to “attach” a file with it.
Questions include: what should the limits (e.g. file size) be? Should all addressees get an email copy of the file? Or should the file be stored in one place and referenced? What safeguards should be in place?
Additional Edits
State
Ensure that a two character US state code entered is a valid state code.
(See zip4.usps.com/zip4/zcl_2_landing_state.htm for a badly formatted list of US state codes. For background see www.usps.com/postalhistory/_rtf/StateAbbrev.rtf)
Phone - US
Validate that a phone number is in the format of a valid US phone format. Accept these formats:
999-999-9999
(999) 999-9999
(999)999-9999
999999999
999.999.999999
999/999-9999
999 999 9999
Regardless of the format entered, render the format to be one of the above, as chosen by the site.
ZIP+4 Code (US)
Allow a Zip+4 code to be entered as:
99999-9999
999999999
99999
If a dash is included, render the format to be one of the first two, as chosen by the site.
Contingent Requiredness
Based on the value of one field, make other fields required. For example, if a box is checked for shipping require the shipping address to be completed.
Your Comments
Again, please make your comments and feel free to make other suggestions.
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See the site here http://www.bornagainamerican.org
BORN AGAIN AMERICAN
By Keith Carradine
Just a workin’ man without a job
It got shipped off to China via Washington, D.C.
And I know I’m nothin’ special, there are plenty more like me
Just the same
I thought I knew the rules of the game
I stood up for this country that I love
I came back from the desert to a wife and kids to feed
I’m not sayin’ Uncle Sam should give me what I need
My offer stands
I’ll pull my weight you give me half a chance
I went up to a congressman and said to him “you know
Our government is letting people down”
He said he’d need a lot of help to buck the status-quo
I said there was a bunch of us around
I’m a Born Again American, conceived in Liberty
My Bible and the Bill of Rights, my creed’s equality
I’m a Born Again American, my country ‘tis of me
And everyone who shares the dream from sea to shining sea
My brother’s welding chassis at the plant
He’s earning what our granddad did in 1948
While CEOs count bonuses behind the castle gates
How can they see
When all they care about’s the do re mi
It’s getting where there’s nowhere left to turn
Not since the crash of twenty-nine have things been so unfair
So many of our citizens are living in despair
The time has come
To reaffirm that hope’s not just for some
The promise of America’s surrendering to greed
The rule is just look out for number one
But brace yourself ‘cause some of us have sown a different seed
A harvest of the spirit has begun
I’m a Born Again American conceived in liberty
My Bible and The Bill Of Rights
My creed’s equality
A Born Again American, my country ‘tis of me
And everyone who shares the dream from sea to shining sea
It’s clear my country’s soul is on the line
She’s hungering for something that she lost along the way
The principle the framers called upon us to obey
That in this land
The people’s will must have the upper hand
I felt the calling once before and took a sacred vow
And faithful to that vow I have remained
I hear the calling once again, my country needs me now
And to her cause I have been re-ordained
I’m a Born Again American conceived in liberty
My Bible and the Bill Of Rights, all people living free
A Born Again American, my country ‘tis of me
And everyone who shares the dream
From sea to shining sea
And everyone who shares the dream
From sea to shining sea
A M E R I C A
See the site here http://www.bornagainamerican.org
I didn’t write it. Lauren Weinstein did.
But I can point you to it at http://www.nnsquad.org/bandwidth-caps.html.
Sometimes I wonder if home builders have ever arranged furniture.
It seems they try to save a dollar or two by putting electrical outlets smack dab in the middle of a wall right where you will put the sofa, bookcase or bed.
Not only that, they are still installing duplex outlets.
Look at your house. How many duplex outlets do you have with more than two plugs plugged in through a cascade of outlet expanders and extension cords?
And I’ve yet to see a modern kitchen built with enough outlets!
Somehow, even as Reddy Kilowatt (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddy_Kilowatt and http://www.toonopedia.com/reddy_k.htm) was promoting electricity in homes, no one bothered to mandate the use of more outlets.
Even today, I’ve yet to see any builder put in enough electrical outlets.
(PS: the number mandated by the building code is not enough.)
James Huggins has a second child named Maria Adela Huggins with Penelope Ann Miller. You can read about it here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30087730/
