I see via Charlottesville Blogs that Colten and I are on the same wavelength: I’m looking at some houses in areas of town that used to be plagued by crime and are getting better. However, I wanted some statistics to make me feel a little better so I checked out the Charlottesville City Police Department …
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Garage fiddler reinvents the electric car.
This story sounds totally cool at first: It looks like a typical Toyota Prius hybrid, but in the trunk sits an 80-miles-per-gallon secret — a stack of 18 brick-sized batteries that boosts the car’s high mileage with an extra electrical charge so it can burn even less fuel. […] The extra batteries let Gremban drive …
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SWVA blog aggregator.
Brian Patton has established a Southwest Virginia blog aggregator. (They’re all the rage these days, you know.) I keep meaning to establish a Virginia political blog aggregator. Maybe, through the wonders of the LazyWeb, it will happen.
Richmond blog aggregator.
Ross Catrow — who recently set up RichmondCrime.org — has established RVABlogs.com, a Richmond blog aggregator. It’s like Charlottesville Blogs only, of course, for Richmond. Ross is attending the upcoming Summit on Blogging and Democracy in the Commonwealth, too.
Creigh Deeds’ campaign blog.
In an e-mail newsletter from the Creigh Deeds for Attorney General campaign today, Creigh introduces a new campaign blog: I hope you will take the time to read through my travel journal which I recently incorporated into my website’s blog, Creigh4AG. Everywhere I’ve visited during this campaign-from Abingdon to Hampton Roads to Winchester, and many …
War spam.
This is about the most distasteful spam that I’ve ever received: From: Abbey Mccarthy Subject: 140 mariines killed Date: August 4, 2005 14 US Marines Killed in Iraq Bombing Guardian Unlimited By ROBERT H. REID. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – 40 minutes ago. 140 US Marines were killed when a huge bomb destroyed their lightly armored …
Minor server upgrade.
RAM mystery solved, I popped in a quarter gig of PC100 into my primary server just now. It booted clean, and I’ve now got a total 384MB in the server, which should certainly help to accommodate all of the httpd processes. Hopefully this will speed up all of the sites hosted on this little server.
What great good could come of community WiFi?
Here’s a hypothetical for all you geeks and geek-lovers. Let’s say we could blanket Charlottesville in WiFi. Or, at least, substantial portions of the city. The connection could be fast (say, 384k) or slow (dial-up speed), strong (available in buildings) or weak (not). There could be an authentication page, or it could be instant-on. So, …
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Mighty Mouse.
Apple has just reinvented the mouse and, damn, is it hot. The Mighty Mouse has no buttons or, depending on how you look at it, three. Instead of a scroll wheel, it has a trackpad built into the top of it. And inside the trackpad, there’s a trackball. And the whole thing can detect if …
Kaine: Still gets it.
I have failed to blog about the conference call that the Kaine campaign held earlier in the week, mostly because my mind has been elsewhere. Suffice it to say, Lt. Governor Tim Kaine held a conference call with a half dozen bloggers on the line — three of us Democrats, and three Republicans. There were …