Monthly Archives: August 2006

The fox guards the hen house

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It’s a mixed-up world we live in. From UPI:

“If we could conserve even 5 percent of gasoline we would see in a period of six to eight weeks a significant difference in the price of gas,” [Shell Oil president] Hofmeister told the Infragard National Conference, a critical infrastructure protection convention in Washington. “The political leadership has chosen not to actively promote conservation. So we continue to produce to demand and that’s what keeps prices up,” Hofmeister said.
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Vice President Dick Cheney dismissed conservation as a viable government strategy to the nation’s energy problems in a speech in 2001, when gas was reaching about $2 a gallon.

“Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy,” Cheney said.

Cheney said the issue had to be addressed by increasing the supply of energy.

Safety first

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I love this picture, particularly the expression on the dude’s face. I have no clue what the context is, or what the guys in the hazmat suits are focused on so intently, but I guarantee I wouldn’t be standing next to them in my white Bermudas with my hands in my pockets.

The image has been shamelessly stolen from the US Navy Safety Center Photo of the Week. Unfortunately, they have no further details either.

Testing image embedding

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Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usThis should be a thumbnail of a semi-funny “motivational” poster that came from a message thread on MoFi. Clicking on the thumbnail should bring up the full-sized image.

Hmm. It would appear that for some reason the text is not flowing around the thumbnail picture as I expected. This post has been reloaded into Performancing and this line of text has been added.

Ah. There we go. Just needed to add an “hspace=’10’ vspace=’5′ align=’left'” to the img src tag.

Performancing plugin for Firefox

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This is a test of the Performancing plugin for Firefox. It’s a blog editor that’s integrated into Firefox. It’s triggered by a function key (doesn’t work for me) or an icon on the Firefox status bar. When it’s triggered, it pops up an editor dialog in the bottom half of the main pane of Firefox. So far it looks fairly cool, but I’m still experimenting with it.