Monthly Archives: May 2006

Memorial Day Bike Trip

Pay No Attention to the Tag Behind the Cloth

I set off alarms everywhere I go. Or at least when I’m wearing my stylish new pair of $20 jeans from Old Navy.

Plugin: Remove the WordPress Dashboard

On my way to doing something else, I came up with this plugin that removes the Dashboard from the admin control panel. Note that the GPL license is longer than the actual plugin.

The Fiddleheads Live in Concert

We have several friends who are just about to graduate from Wellesley, and a couple of them play in a student Celtic group called the “Fiddleheads.” I took the video clip below at the Fiddleheads’ Spring Concert on May 13, 2006 at Wellesley. About halfway through they dish out a very creative rhythm [...]

Harry S Truman

A few weeks ago I finished David McCullough’s Pulitzer prize-winning biography. I started the book mainly because I enjoyed McCullough’s history of the Brooklyn Bridge, and when I find an author I like I try to read his other books. Even though I think some of Truman’s policies as President were misguided, and I despise [...]

Did John McCain Speak at Bob Jones University?

Numerous bloggers think he did.