September 2005

Link: Workplace Gender Policies in the Press

This is a shameless pluck off of Laura, of Laura 5 fame, website. It’s a great bunch of articles on how employers are learning to adapt to transgendered folk. Great reading and very helpful.

4/1/2007 Update
The site, Laura5, has been permanently disabled by the owner.

Link: CounterSpy.

I hate malaware, spyware, dirty-underwear. For the first two I found an excellent program that is cheap and works. CounterSpy rocks, I just loaded it, and found oodles of spyware I couldn’t find before with my Norton Anti-Spy and Yahoo Anti-Spy toolbar. The Yahoo Anti-Spy toolbar is better, in my opinion, than Norton’s. So if you need a free solution, use Yahoo’s. But Counterspy, at $20, really is significantly better. My PC was crawling…now it’s happy

Oh the last one, I found that a good douse of bleach works great - or a scrub board near a local stream

This recipe my spouse found and though she fretted about the fat I said “who CARES this tastes great!” oh and it’s easy to make too

Ingredients:
4 Pita breads (6 inches in diameter)
1/2 cup roasted garlic-flavored or regular humus (depends on who your kissing afterwards I’d reckon)
1 Cup crumbled feta cheese (4 ounces)
1 Small Onion, sliced
2 Cups shredded spinach
1 Large Tomato, seeded & chopped (1 cup)
1/4 cup sliced ripe or Kalamata OlivesOlive Oil

1. Heat over to 400 F. Place pita breads in ungreased jelly roll pan, 15 1/2×10 1/2×1 inch
2. Drizel some olive oil onto the pita’s surface
3. Spread hummus on each pita bread. Sprinkle with cheese.
4. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until cheese is melted. Top each pizza with onions, spinach, tomoto and olives

Get a nice glass of wine, and enjoy!

Sometimes i’m a liar

Sometimes i’m a fake

Sometimes i’m a hypocrite that everybody hates

Sometimes i’m a poet

Sometimes i’m a preacher

Sometimes i watch life go by sitting on the bleacher

But, i’ve never been left alone in any problem that i’ve known even though i’m to blame, there were times when things were dark and i’ve been known to miss the mark but someone fixed my aim

Sometimes i’m a man of God, sometimes i’m all right, sometimes i lay down close my eyes and pray to God

Sometimes I don’t feel good, it’s hard to start the day, it’s hard to climb the obstacles that sometimes come my way…if I make it, I’m a good man, am I bad man if I fail? i know I’m never good enough, so I let grace prevail

Oh I’ve never been left alone in any problem that I’ve known even though I’m to blame there were times when things were dark and I’ve been known to miss the mark but someone fixed my aim

Sometimes I’m a man of God, sometimes i’m all right, sometimes I lay down, close my eyes and pray to God…I’m ready for the night.

(Audio Adreneline, 1996)

An excellent list of resources can be found for helps during the Hurricane Katrina Disaster at the following link —> Katrina Help Wiki

Also, there is a 24-hour help line staffed that is up and running to help those that need it during The Hurricane Katrina Disaster that number is +1-504-208-1564

You can call that number with request for help, and offers to help.

Please ensure you add the “1″ to the number, even if you are in the USA. This is because the number is routed via Skype.) If the line is
busy, you will be forwarded to voicemail. Please do leave behind your name and contact details so we may get back to you (more details at this this link here: Hurricane Katrina Disaster Help Line )

4/15/06 UPDATE: Skype Line and Help Line discontinued 23:29, 25 Mar 2006 (CET). Katrina Help Wiki still available

The Hurricane Katrina Disaster is moving into recovery certainly, though the work to recover will be a long slog. What’s currently hapening, first hand in New Orleans? See the following:

The Interdictor weblog is being updated regularly. Five employees New Orleans-based DirectNIC have been holed up since just before the storm blew in nearly a week
ago on the 10th and 11th floors of the building that houses their
headquarters. (see C/net for their story).

The Interdictor photo blog gives you the visual of what is happening as well (11/28/05 update: it appears they pulled that url down, the mirror site below is working though)

Lastly, many refugees from the Hurricane Katrina Disaster are being moved to various communities throughout the U.S. I can’t think of a better way to be a good Samaritan than to open hands and hearts to them all.

Addition 1:00PM EST:
Here is the link to Sigmund Solare’s pesonal site, he is the CEO of DirectNIC. This looks like a mirror site to the above, as well as an easier way to reach all their information as they post live from New Orleans http://sigmund.biz/0904/

11/28/2005 Update: It appears they pulled that url down, the mirror site below is working though
1/4/2007 Update: Both the DirectNIC and Sigmund.biz/0904 links appeared to be dead as of 1/4/2007.  These were the mirror sites to the photoblog noted above

Link: Biloxi MS, Hurricane Katrina effects

While the majority of coverage of the Hurricane Katrina Disaster is on New Orleans, the destruction was widespread. I did some web-surfing to see what it was like in Biloxi MS, and, frankly, was shocked at how bad it was there too. The link to these videos (please click here) really tells the story (not especially the Casino barges and how powerful those 20 - 25 foot storm surges were to lift the barges and hurl the barges where they did).

God, please help these people, may your grace be upon our country in this time, and upon the many victims.

Please pray , give, or volunteer if you can. Links to places to give are in this blog and on this list:
Instapundit’s List
Truth Laid Bear Donation List (appears to be a dead link as of 01/04/2007)

If you haven’t cried, you should. It is the worst disaster to hit our nation. If you haven’t given, would you please? The following Katrina Disaster Relief organisations are places you can give to, some may even let you volunteer if you so choose to:

There will be alot of people, without homes, for a long time. The construction industry is pitching in big time, but an agency like Habitat for Humanity will fill in the spaces where perhaps the poorest might be hit.

The Salvation Army provides outstanding bang for your donation buck (see here as to why). A $100 donation to The Salvation Army will feed a family of four for
two days, provide two cases of drinking water and one household
clean-up kit, containing brooms, mops, buckets, and cleaning supplies.

Food is in short supply, America’s Second Harvest’s mission (from their website info) “is to create a hunger-free
America. We distribute food and grocery products through a nationwide
network of certified affiliates, increase public awareness of domestic
hunger, and advocate for policies that benefit America’s hungry.”

When you do make a donation, please log your contibution here to show your support. (update 10/17/05 - since Blog for Relief Weekend is over, we are not tracking the donations in the blogospher anylonger, but donating is still very much needed)

You can find more places to donate at Instapundit’s Blog.

Please also click you way over to The Truth Laid Bear’s Katrina Relief Page at this LINK to see more links, information, and updates on Blog for Relief Weekend

1/4/2007 update:Â The links to The Truth Laid Bear’s donation site appear to be dead links.

8/27/2008 update: The Salvation Army New Orleans specific donation site is now down.  You can stil reach the Salvation Army at  The Salvation Army.