Excellent Obama ad

Superdelegates should let the voters decide

MoveOn did a full page ad published in USA Today today on the superdelegates issue. You can see my name just to the left of “Add your name at www.moveon.org.”

Scripting News Working In Opera

Dave has a challenge that his tree code is not working in Opera. I was able to fix it up and meet all of his requirements. Here is the code.

1. Flush

2. Works in Opera (see pic below)

3. Able to nest

4. Fast(only a few lines of code)

I have been working on Next Day Office Supplies

I have been busy as of late. One of the projects that I have been working on for quite awhile is a new on-line Office Supplies company called Next Day Office Supplies. I am proud of this new site, it offers users free express delivery for supply order $50.00 and over, risk free returns(free return shipping) and volume discounts. It is also one of the most user friendly office supply sites on the web IMHO. Give us a try the next time you have an office supply order.

Indoff sites relying on a niche

Well our Indoff family of Weblogs and e-commerce sites is growing fast. We now have well over 90+ weblog / stores and have several highly successfully sites in each of our divisions.

Some of our more notable Material Handling Sites are,

1. Forklift accessories, run by Ken Welch. Ken specializes in Forks for Forklifts , Hoppers, Fork Mounted Platforms, Drum Handling and a variety of specialized forklift attachments. Ken has also started a Warehouse and loading Dock column protectors site.

2. Scissor Lift Tables, run by Brian Galloway. Brian specializes in a variety of different Scissor Lift Tables and Post Lift tables. Brian also specializes in Belt and Roller Conveying systems.

3. Smokers Urns & Commercial Trash Containers, run by Allen Peterson. Allen specializes in indoor and outdoor commercial Trash Receptacle and smokers urns and station. Allen also runs a banquet carts site and a rubber mats site.

I’ll try and showcase some of our Office Interiors sites tomorrow and the other two division next week.

10 Years of Scripting News

Scripting News is 10 years old today.

I remember when I started reading Scripting News back in 98, it was the same year I started reading MacInTouch. I stumbled upon Scripting News when I was just starting with programming. I was searching for a language that I could use on the Mac and I found “Frontier” and Scripting News at the same time. Well as it turns out I never understood Frontier although I tried; but I kept reading Scripting News.

BTW,

Thanks Dave for writing Scripting News for 10 years.

I-78 storm between Allenton and Harissburg PA

The hilly 50 mile stretch on the East bound lanes where already blocked for several miles when we reached the top of the last hill on the West bound lane on I-78 on  Wednesday afternoon.

We got stuck 3 cars behind a tractor trailer on the last hill on ice. We all sat there as the storm kicked up for about 25 minutes. I was wondering how everyone was going to get out of this mess. When finally, the truck that was blocking everyone on the hill was able to somehow backup on to the shoulder.  We were lucky to get out of there I don’t think most of the folks behind us  who were backed up for miles were able to go anywhere because no tractor trailers could get passed the hill and there were several trucks in back of us. I am guessing that we were 1 of 5 or so cars that didn’t have to sit there for 24hours.  We were damn lucky!

FDA Food Allergies Recall alerts RSS Feed

Anybody who has severer food allergies will find this FDA RSS feed for food allergy recalls usefull. You can also bookmark the recalls page.

Nice! Subscribed!

Barack Obama Exploratory Committee

Have a look at the Barack Obama Exploratory Committe website.

Attention all Grocers

Excellent article in the NyTimes, finally a Grocer stands ups and says wait a minute . I hope other Grocers will follow Hannaford Brothers lead.

The chain, Hannaford Brothers, developed a system called Guiding Stars that rated the nutritional value of nearly all the food and drinks at its stores from zero to three stars.

Our government is failing us on this issue. Labels are maybe not to the point of making “Fake” claims but IMHO a lot of labels are misleading and/or confusing.

The thing is, a lot of claims we see out there are puffery,” said Joseph R. Baca, director of the office of compliance at the F.D.A.’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. “But they don’t get to the point where we can call them fake or misleading.

Via NyTimes

Products also bank on people not reading the back of label. So, making it easier to decipher nutritional balance is a good thing. Stars might not be perfect but it’s a start. Grocery stores could also put simple universal symbols on the shelf tag for foods that contain one of the 8 major allergens. It would help the millions of people like my daughter who suffer from severe food allergies.

BTW, I won’t patent that last idea it’s free for anyone to take. Hell, I would be even willing to pay for those universal symbols to be created.