April 2004

Early start to the fire season

Following on the heels of the Picnic Rock fire that scorched nearly 10,000 acres the Larimer County Commission has implemented a fire ban through June 1, 2004. It is one more indication of a possibly rough fire season ahead.

Miles continues electability campaign

Mike Miles continues his campaign to demonstrate he is more electable than current Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar. I'm not certain why Mr. Miles does not have this information on his website, if however one wants to get the schedule for March 2 it is listed in upcoming events on Miles' website. It will be a great day when candidates figure out that "we the people" are far more interested in WHAT they plan to do and HOW they plan to do it instead of smugly repeating over and over "call person x and ask them to define their positions." For example Mr. Miles, when you say that you "Supports teachers and public schools" what does that mean? I would suggest that better than 90% of the population would say they support teachers and public schools. Where we differ is on how that is best done. Please stop giving us soundbites and trying to tell Salazar what office he should seek, tell us instead what your plans are and let the voters decide based on information. That is the job of a true educator.

PHPLens

I've been doing some work with PHPLens today. It installs nicely on OS X. I'm running Aaron Faby's Complete PHP. Complete PHP does not include the Zend Optimizer which is required for PHPlens. It is easy to get the optimizer from the ZEND website and install it into the Complete PHP setup. The only thing it takes is changing a few of the configuration lines (which the installer asks you about when you run it).

Internet Cameras

I'm looking for anybody who has experience with internet cameras. The DLink DCS-5300 Internet Camera seems like a fairly good option at a reasonable cost. Are there better cameras out there?

The top 100

The US News rankings of graduate schools came out yesterday. Our own UNLV Boyd School of Law ranks in the top 100 for the first time. Congratulations to all who put so much work into building the school into a prominent school so quickly.

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