I’m Off

After spending the greater parts of the last couple of days learning about CSS script and cutting and pasting code I have managed to get my blog transferred over to my domain all in good order.  You may find it here.
Additionally, hosting the blog at my own domain enables me to customize the blog template [...]

You’re So Right Chronicles – Part III

UPDATE: Since You’re So Right has indicated that his chronicles make themselves up and flow unexpectantly from the ether into his consciousness, I have created a
You’re So Right Chronicles page which one may access by clicking on You’re So Right Chronicles just above the header photo.  Unfortunately, at this point, I must post the Chronicles [...]

In Case You’ve Missed Them

In case any of my five readers have missed the chronicles of “You’re So Right”, the master of Iconoflatulence, here are Parts I and II. I am eagerly awaiting Part III.
You’re So Right
Part I: I Can’t Place the Face, but the Odor is Familiar
As the shards of my shattered consciousness began to reassemble [...]

Los Amigos Del Taconazo

I have found that local bars are good places to practice Spanish, as the patrons and proprietors are generally friendly and ready to strike up conversation.
You may remember my periodic reports from Jose’s cantina in Merida, which I would visit a couple of times each week. Jose’s is what I would call a [...]

My Homemade Double Biquad Antenna

As I have mentioned I have become interested in antennas with which to received WiFi signals. A while back I posted a photo of my kitchen sieve antenna that slightly improved my reception of the signal from my apartment building owner’s wireless internet router three floors above my apartment.
A few days ago I mentioned [...]

Plaza Xalapenos Ilustres

Having researched options for extending the range of WiFi receivers and broadcasters I ran across lots of designs for home made antennas, some with ranges of many miles. My curiosity piqued I decided to build a very long range “double bi-quad” antenna.
I needed a piece of scrap 12 or 14 [...]

Sunnergy Dealer in Xalapa

There was an informational booth in Parque Juarez yesterday for a local Sunnergy dealer, Grupo Hersa, located in Col. Ferrer Guardia, 8-42-92-64  hersa_1@yahoo.com.
Presently the company is selling only vacuum tube, gravity feed, batch type hot water heater systems with the integrated tank of stainless steel.  The smallest system, with a 132 liter tank is selling [...]

Judge Whalton Waxes Sarcastic in Granting Libby Friends’ Amici Brief

Apparently attorneys for I. Scooter Libby have filed a motion with his trial Judge, Reggie Whalton, that Libby be granted bail while his appeal of his 30 month jail sentence is adjudicated.
The Next Hurrah reports that Robert Bork, Alan (torture is OK) Dershowitz, and ten other prominent and equally presumptuous attorneys, filed a motion with [...]

Another Guantanamo Dismissal

Raw Story links to a Guardian report that charges against a second Guantanamo prisoner have been dismissed. Charges against “Yasser Ahmed Hamdan, the man accused of being Osama bin Laden’s driver” were dropped for the same reason charges against “Omar Khadr, who has been held since he was 15-years-old” were dropped. Like all [...]

A Victory at Guantanamo

Lauran Rozen, in her excellent blog War and Piece, passes on a report from the Guardian of the dismissal by a military judge of charges against a Guantanamo prisoner because the prisoner had been designated an “enemy combatant” not an “unlawful enemy combatant” as required by the “the Military Commissions Act adopted by the US [...]

Neonatal Mortality – We’re Number 5

Here is a list of countries with lower neonatal mortality rates than has the USA. I copied the information from the excellent World Health Organization web site, where all sorts of health care statisics may be sorted.
The neonatal mortality rate is the number of deaths during the first 28 completed days* of life per [...]

Cheny/Bush Torturers Used “Evil Empire” Techniques

Think Progress reports on a Pentagon Inspector General’s report that indicates the torture techniques used at Guantanamo and in Iraq were those the Pentagon believed to be  techniques used by the erstwhile Soviet Union.
No wonder the Cheney administration refused to have the “land of the free, home of the brave” sign on to the treaty [...]