A one year deal has been signed (Inquirer) that sidesteps the health care issue for now. Good job on averting the strike. Let’s hope cool heads prevail and a solution is agreed upon before the end of the year.
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Major Transportation Strike (SEPTA) Might Hit Philly Tomorrow
400,000 riders maybe stranded as of Monday if SEPTA goes on strike. This will hurt the most vulnerable. Children. Working mothers. The elderly. Those that have the capability to find other transportation will do so and you can bet that many won’t come back when this is over. As was the case with the California grocery strike – it appears the main issue is health care.
The Frankford Terminal Weblog appears to be a weblog maintained by a SEPTA employee and has plenty of related information on the strike. Linked from the FTW is a strike survival guide.
feed on feeds
Following Rafe Colburn’s example, I decided to install feed on feeds and migrate my blogroll management to it (see my links page under Non-Philly Webloggers).
I can foresee changing PhillyFuture to use some version of this software instead of the unholy mix of MovableType plugins I currently do. The end result will be Atom support and easier maintenance. We shall see…
Arrests Made For Spain Bombings
Spain has announced five arrests (Yahoo!).
My prayers to the many who have been hurt by these cowardly bastards.
The Mario Brothers Saga
Just wanted to share with you this fun series:
Mario Brothers Part 1
Mario Brothers Part 2
Mario Brothers Part 3
Live HTTP Headers
A useful plugin for Firefox if you’re doing server side web development.
From the mozdev Extension Room.
Have You Seen Audacity?
I downloaded it last night and am very impressed. Audacity is an open source multi-track recorder that get’s the interface right and makes it easy to start editting music files. Now all I need is a decent open source drum machine that exports to .mp3, .ogg or .wav and away we go 🙂 PC, Linux and Mac.
Mom will get daughter back
What a wonderful and terrible story (Newsday). It’s some kind of miracle. Let’s pray for the family that all turns out well.
They Sound Like Script Kiddies
A three-month investigation by the Senate’s top law enforcement officer found a systematic downloading of thousands of Democratic computer files by Republican staffers over the past few years as well as serious flaws in the chamber’s computer security system.
…Some Republicans on the committee — and many conservative groups on the outside — said the Senate should have probed the contents of the memos, which they contended demonstrated the collusion between Democrats and liberal advocacy groups, rather than how the memos ended up in Republican hands.
GOP Aides Implicated In Memo Downloads (Washington Post).
Let’s get this straight:
1. Some Republicans downloaded Democratic memos that were thought secure.
2. They say that it’s weak security’s fault.
3. They say the investigation should delve into the contents of those memos.
Don’t you just love the absolute lack of principal here? They sound like your average script kiddie cracker.
Stern Thinks It’s Over
“If you don’ t think me going after Bush got me thrown off those stations, you got another thing coming,” said Stern. “This has nothing to do with anything I said.”