I spent the last couple of days in Biloxi, Mississippi, visiting my mother and checking out the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Mary Mahoney’s Old French House restaurant is one of the few restaurants that has reopened in the downtown section of town close to the waterfront. Last Saturday night my mother and I ate an… Read More: Mary Mahoney’s »
I couldn’t resist upgrading to Firefox 1.5, even though I expected that some of the extensions I had installed would not be compatible. The extensions that are still enabled (or were added during the upgrade) include DOM Inspector, Talkback, Nuke Anything, AdBlock, FoxyTunes, Web Developer, Piggy Bank, View Rendered Source Chart, del.icio.us, Customize Google, ASCIItoUnicode,… Read More: Firefox 1.5 »
Practically since the dawn of the Web, people have written about the possibility of offering voice access to websites over the phone. One of the biggest challenges is that many websites aren’t even accessible to special web browsers, e. g., IBM Home Page Reader, that are designed for people who are blind or who have… Read More: Public Domain SpeechWeb »
If you’re looking for good ideas for Xmas gifts, please consider buying from people and businesses located on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Here are a few links I managed to dig up. Ohr O’Keefe Museum of Art store Walter Anderson Museum store Morans Art Gallery Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum Beauvoir, Last Home of Jefferson… Read More: Shop with Hurricane-Affected Local Businesses »
Mary Mahoney’s is one of the most famous restaurants in Biloxi. The Mary Mahoney’s restaurant, bars, and cafe suffered a lot of damage, but the upstairs restaurant is already open. They plan to expand the cafe downstairs, but it needs a lot more work. Having Mary Mahoney’s reopen is a good sign for the return… Read More: Biloxi on the Mend »
I just spoke with my mother about how things are going in Biloxi. She went out on a schooner this weekend along the Biloxi coastline and said that the devastation is still hard to believe. The only large landmark that looks normal is the Biloxi Lighthouse. The big hotels are still standing, but many windows… Read More: The Return of the Casinos »
Real estate info is obviously extremely suitable for being paired up with Google maps. Two sites my brother recently told me about are Home Price Records and Trulia. These sites serve complementary purposes – Home Price Records lists properties that have been sold and Trulia lists properties that are for sale. Home Price Records prompts… Read More: Real Estate Google Map Mash-Ups »
I haven’t posted about PhoneBlogger in quite a while, but I’m thinking about updating and enhancing some of the code. A lot has happened in the audio/phone blogging world since I announced PhoneBlogger January 9, 2003, and posted the PhoneBlogger source code on SourceForge. One new buzzword is mobcasting. The Wikipedia page on mobcasting quotes… Read More: Mobcasting »
I suspect that you, just like me, wonder just what the friggin heck George Bush is trying to communicate when he gamely attempts to speak English, or in the case of one response during a debate with John Kerry, not speak at all. This video makes it all clear. It turns out that Bush has… Read More: White Noise from the White House »
A friend of mine recently emailed some photos her husband took while driving down Highway 90 in Biloxi. He said the eastbound lanes are in relatively good shape, but the westbound lanes are still pretty bad. That’s surprising, as the eastbound lanes are closer to the water. In one of my first posts after Hurricane… Read More: Slow Recovery in Biloxi »