I happened across this disturbing, yet entertaining collection of bunny suicide cartoons while looking for something else, and felt I just had to share.

Over the last couple weeks, half of my main entries have been announcements of one technical problem or another, and the trend continues tonight. It appears that port 80 is now being blocked by my provider (Cox) on SOME connections (but not all), despite the fact that I'm on a business account that is not supposed to have any blocking whatsoever.

Those who are seeing this anyway should take note that port 443 is NOT being blocked, so you can still access the site by:

https://www.resonant.org/

(Note the https rather than the http.)

Whee! I leave for the airport in two hours. It's kind of funny when the thing that lights up your life the most is a chance to flee the country for a few days.

(Having a girlfriend waiting on the other side helps, of course.)

Back on the first of March, Jessica at Feministing wrote an entry on a grossly sexist contest being run by the Clear Channel radio station KDGE-FM in Texas. The name of the contest is "Pimp My Ride", in obvious reference to the MTV television show of the same name, which deals with remakes of ordinary looking vehicles into "cool-looking" status symbols in street culture.

There's this horrible tradeoff in camera lenses between suitability for a given purpose and inconvenience in having to carry and switch out extra glass, some of it quite heavy.

The exact timing of coincidences is everything. At exactly the same moment that I clicked on a link, the computer gave a sparking sound and powered down. I glanced, bewildered for a moment, at the mouse, before my brain reasserted itself and I started going down the checklist of possible faults. Surge on the UPS unit (I keep expecting trouble because the wall socket to which it is connected doesn't have the third ground prong actually connected to anything)? No, the UPS is fine; the monitor still has power.

There's an entry over at Feministing about whether the shift in the Democratic position on abortion is a good thing, by bringing more people into the party, or a bad thing, by turning the party into "Republican-lite", leaving the US without a liberal party. The answer to that is somewhat complicated by the nature of the American two-party system, but that's not really why I'm writing. In the comments of the Feministing entry, I saw:

I was putting the finishing touches on the blog entry that was supposed to go here when I finally opened up one link too many and the system froze, taking down not only the web browser I was using to post, but the copy buffer containing the full copy of the text as well.

It's my own fault; I had been doing some game-playing before I started writing, so I was still in Microsoft Windows, and I chose to start writing from there rather than rebooting to do it. I know better.

Educated Guesswork has posted a couple entries over the last couple days about photography being stopped in public places, the first covering an incident in Chicago's Millenium park. This one is very interesting, as it cannot be disputed that this is public property, nor is there any ordinance against taking photographs while in the park.