Day: July 12, 2011

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Saw this and thought it was pretty funny

An Article at California Watch reports that all those ever so important Compact Fluorescent light bulbs that California has been shoving down our throats may have a sinister side.

When rebuilding my house, the building code REQUIRED that I have X Fluorescent light fixtures in the house. In point of fact the building code mandate actually INCREASED the number of overhead lights in my home. This was done to save energy! I have yet to figure out how having MORE fixtures saves energy!

It seems to me having NO Fixtures saves a lot more power.

California being the ultimate NANNY state, and all the wonderful elitists who only have my best interest at heart forced their will on me via building code and I had no choice in the matter. After all it was for my own good.

Well it seems that someone forgot to file an environmental impact statement! It turns out that if you drop and break one of those compact fluorescent bulbs it emits mercury vapor. Not at all surprising if you know anything about how those bulbs work.

What surprised me is that they emit vapor for 10 weeks or more. And that vapor is at levels that are considered unsafe for people.

So the California MANDATE… has placed hazardous materials in our homes!

I think it’s FUNNY AS HELL!

Of course the news media will downplay it IF they report on it at all…

See… no matter what, the elitists CAN NEVER be publicly shown to have done something that could be embarrassing or that they were wrong.

After all, if the Elite were shown to be less than perfect,  the Sheep might start asking questions…

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Well, That was fun!

I answered an invitation from a friend to Join Google+ today.

It looks like a pretty neat service and I figured what the heck?

<Sigh>

As it turns out the privacy settings on some elements of the service are MORE than touchy.

To Googles credit, they warned that changes here could ripple across all my Google accounts. After all was said and done… about 1/2 the photos linked in the blog were gone. Oooops!

I just finished relinking everything (I think) and the exercise was a good one for me.

On the one hand I can’t beat the simple convenience of this blog. It’s free, it’s easy to work with and has a decent enough tool set that I can actually create a blog entry from my phone.

On the other side of the coin, is the issue of privacy. While I intend for photos to be linked to the blog, I don’t necessarily want those photos to be sitting in an “Album” that’s accessible out of context to my friends, associates, business contacts, Mother, etc.

Just looking at the photos in an album like that… well it looks like you’re one SICK puppy! (The fact that I am notwithstanding!)

This has made me wonder if I can create a Web / Blog Site on my local system that I can publish to the web without actually having to upload text & images to servers out on the web.

If I maintained the files on my local storage platform I’d have a slightly better chance of making sure that my stuff, remained my stuff.

It’s an interesting line of thought.  Perhaps another project for me to work on in the future.

In the mean time I’m going to be using a much more logical method to make entries and post photographs. Just in the event that I choose to move the blog to another location in the future.

I would like to make the blog far more “picture rich” using my own photos.  However, since some of those photos I’d like to be able to sell or publish down the road I’ve been reluctant to just place them here in the public domain with no control at all.