The past few weeks have been a trying time for my family and I. My father has recently been diagnosed with discoid lupus (aka chronic skin lupus), and my mother is experiencing fibro and heart issues rather frequently (her health conditions have been ongoing for some time. She’s just happening to have multiple outbreaks, lately). Add to this the periodic depression that I deal with, and an awful lot of general stress. As a result, everything I do – aside from general ‘net malarky, and sleeping (and even the sleeping has been suffering a bit) – has been suffering.
I’ve been attempting to put in time on GEL Web things – specifically, loading product into the site, getting a marketing plan together, getting the blasted merchant account and gateway online, etc – and have been seeing my time wane to the point that this past week I’ve done nothing more than check e-mail, twice. I’ve been attempting to work on my side projects – things that I normally use to take my mind off of everything else. That hasn’t helped, either. In fact, I’m experiencing major issues with code.
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This entry is copied in part from an entry on Pam Spaulding’s blog at http://www.pamspaulding.com.
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The words of Representative Senfronia Thompson are brave and meaningful, especially so because she is black, given the rampant homophobia in the religious black community — a group that should be supportive, given civil rights history. Sorry this post is long, but you really need to read this.:
I have been a member of this august body for three decades, and today is one of the all-time low points. We are going in the wrong direction, in the direction of hate and fear and discrimination. Members, we all know what this is about, this is the politics of divisiveness at its worst, a wedge issue that is meant to divide.
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The Texas Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment has passed the Senate with a vote of 21 to 8, today. This amendment will go before the people of the State of Texas for general vote on November 8th, 2005.
Please, read this post on livejournal.com for more information on this horrendous move by the Texas Legislature. Please, if you value Texas Liberties, vote NO on November 8th.
I’ve finally gone and done it. I got back into broadcasting online.
I used to love DJing. I originally DJed for the Internet Underground Radio Network (a service I started), which went down in 2000. After that, I joined Houston’s Earthwire Network until it went offline (website is still availible for archive purposes).
So, I set up ShoutCast on the webserver for the site, and made the mods the admin required me to make (max users, etc..). Now, I’m up and running.
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The following is a direct reprint from the Dallas Morning News, April 26th Edition:
Texas House OKs civil union ban
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I’ve checked this site through Internet Explorer on no less than three seperate computer systems, tonight. EVERY single one of those systems was showing my site with messed up formatting (the middle section (content, entries, etc..) was overlapping the right-hand sidebar.
Thing is, on MY Internet Explorer at home, the site looks fine. In fact, I spent a long time writing a javascript to detect when people are using IE and use a special CSS page to make things appear correctly. It doesn’t make any sense.
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Some of you may be familiar with the concept of Metro Blogging. Getting several bloggers to collaborate and blog about a city. Metro blogging first came about with the blogging.la website. Eventually, Sean Bonner and company decided to open up the Metroblogging.com website, and start indoctrinating cities from around the world. It’s actually quite interesting, and I read multiple cities, often.
Recently, I was asked to join the group at the Houston Metroblog. This was quite an honor for me, as my goal has been to become a serious (and hopefully recognized) blogger. I see this as a step in the right direction.
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