heisel.org > Blog > 2005 > 09
Georgia’s govenor is a moron
Friday | September 23, 2005 | 5:51 pm
It’s official, our govenor is a moron.
As gas prices climb, and another hurricane threatens off-shore oil rigs, what does the illustrious government of the state of Georgia do?
It shuts down its schools for two days so that school busses, faculty and staff won’t be on the road.
Schools!
Why, of all things, would you want to shut down schools!
You know, the places where we educate our young, so that they can become successfull members of society. In a state where our SAT scores are dead last, don’t you think we need more schooling, not less?
Can someone tell me what percentage of traffic in the state is made up of school busses. Because I’m going to guess, that the vast majority of cars gas-guzzling SUVs on the streets and highways are folks commuting to their jobs?
Maybe we should have the state government telecommute on Monday and Friday, and encourage businesses to have their employees do the same?
Or the state could offer a one-time tax break to any individual that takes public transportation to work next week rather than drive.
There are a million different things we could be doing to save gas, but am I the only one who thinks that shutting down schools is not the answer?
Permalink | Comments (0) | Categories: Politics
Blogmarks
Pretty neat service. You put in what you’ve read, or keep a reading list, and it makes recommendations based on other users. It might nice if it had some community options: a blog, forum, friend’s list, share your list, etc.
Myghty needs some myghty good docs
Friday | September 16, 2005 | 12:43 pm
Maybe it’s because I’ve never used Mason, but I’m having a hard time figuring out how to get started with Myghty.
At the moment I’m just trying to play around with it and get a feel for how you use it but I have to say that Django and Rails have set the bar high for the “tell me how to dive in” user.
I understand that you can structure your Myghty app in just about any way imaginable, and I appreciate that kind of flexibility, but it would be nice if there was something similar to the 10-minute Rails video, or the Django tutorial.
I’ve tried Googling and the best I can come up with is that you probably want to use Myghty with SQLObject and Formencode.
But how, and what is the best way, to combine those three packages?
Permalink | Comments (3) | Categories: Programming, Technology
Disclaimer: I work at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The opinions expressed here are my own, and do not reflect those of the AJC, Cox Newspapers, Cox Enterprises nor any other party.
