A reminder and a suggestion: scan something for Firda.

Boring Saturday == ‘hoblog version 4.0. It’s the second complete rewrite, even though the look of the page has actually changed less than ever before. Non-cosmetic changes: folded back in a revised (no javascript) version of the Bloghop select-box, and the new window thing works for forms too now. Woo woo.

Y’know, the power situation in California really is a global issue in these wired days, which is why I’ve taken an interest in it. That, and the sheer car-wreck watchability of yet another large business interest (in this case the entire power-generation industry in the western US, from government on down) shoot itself in the foot. In all of the press releases, warnings to the public to turn off their Christmas lights, and heavy-handed threats of more blackouts, has a single representative of the industry once said “We screwed up. We’re sorry. We are endeavoring to make sure it never, ever happens again?”

No.

Making sure the entire process of getting a customer’s front porch light to shine remains completely transparent to the customer hirself is their job. It’s their entire job. It’s all they do. They haven’t done it.

Ahem. Rant mode off.

The Christmas Test actually gave me one pretty good idea, which places its good idea/really bad idea ratio at about 1/4. (Unfortunately, the people who I can’t simply go up to and say “What do you want?” all fall into the bad-ideas column.)