BrainStream: Good WaSP Members don't go

Good WaSP Members don't go away, they just take a break. Welcome back, Jeff.

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BrainStream: The deadling for Federal Web

The deadling for Federal Web accessibility requirements is looming:

"We would have liked a longer window," Cleland said. While companies so far have been reluctant to openly criticize the six-month deadline, Cleland said he knows of at least one meeting of a number of prominent companies where leaders discussed ways they could delay the deadline.

"They're in a very tricky political position," he said, but "I will be stunned if we don't see some companies coming forward (to protest) as the deadline approaches."

Well if you won't do something good for the people on your own....then I say kudos to the government for stepping in. But it wouldn't surprise me if the Bush administration pulls a fast one on us yet again and delays the deadline. They seem to be reversing everything else good that the Clinton administration including multiple environmental laws, labor laws, and relations with North Korea and China that Bush appears to have given a big "Fuck you" to.

Not holding my breath on this one.

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BrainStream: I've just had a case

I've just had a case of hiccups for the last 20 minutes and it's been driving me NUTS. I tried holding the breath and eating raw sugar with no luck. So I took to the Web. Sure enough - I found a cure that worked instantly!

Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. However, if you REALLY concentrate on seeing if the cure worked, it will. The cure isn't the act of drinking water upside-down, or holding your breath, or being scared. The REAL cure is the wait AFTER the trick cure that is the real cure.

So I just did away with the trick part of the cure. When I start to hiccup, I stop what I'm doing and concentrate on waiting for my next hiccup. It never comes. The WAIT is the cure.

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BrainStream: The IE6 Public Preview was

The IE6 Public Preview was released today. I checked it against some of my old IE5.5 HTML tests and found that IE6 beta does not pass any of them. These 4 tests are by no means all the issues but they are the ones I got around to testing during the last round of IE betas. I'm hoping MS will post info about where to submit bug info for the public preview soon.

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BrainStream: A user on one of

A user on one of the email lists I'm on posted a link to Scorecard.org's top polluter's in Boston. I checked the list for Salem and was appalled to see the amount of pollution being expelled by the Salem Harbor Power Plant. I've heard stores from my herbalist teacher of how she won't wildcraft (pick) herbs in town or even drink much tap water due to how bad it is. This freaks me out....there's not much I can do myself but it might help to do some research. It pisses me off that Dubya has backed off on his promise to curb carbon dioxide initiatives while paving the way for more coal-burning energy initiatives.. especially in the wake of a report stating that acid rain is still a problem in the Northeast US. Hello? Hydrogen? Biomass? Solar? Wind?

It turns my crank that Bush is intent on completely exploiting resources like coal and oil (MAJOR pollutants) which will trash our environment not to mention deplete over time. Why not give tax incentives to explore alternative, renewable energy now and save places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from harmful drilling? (Oil exploration my ass)

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