I was looking at Hurricane Rita coverage on Wikipedia and was inspired by this image. It paints the perfect portrait of America today:

Thousands of Americans fleeing a coming storm

They’ll eventually run out, going nowhere fast.

I don’t think I’ve written a poem since sixth grade. I suppose that’s a shame.

Have a look at this pen my wife made. Definitely one of her finest.

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My wife and I both make hand-turned pens and other unique gifts. We don’t normally sell our creations, but there’s been some demand recently. If you’re interested, we’d be willing to part with this baby for $25. It is definitely one of the most gorgeous pens ever to come off our lathe.

How annoying… Thanks to the mere “heavy rain” we have lost power at the house. Looks like “tropical depression 16” is already a pain in the ass—and it doesn’t even have a name yet!

Here’s a pic of the only light in the house. Courtesy of my trusty flashlight (that needs new batteries).

I’m in the process of upgrading the code on this site to be XHTML 1.1 compliant. It may get ugly for a while =)

Update: The site now validates as XHTML 1.1. I’m working on re-adding the image shadow and getting rid of that bullet next to the random image.

Update: I got the image drop shadow working with XHTML 1.1 (finally). Had to wrap the <div class=”img-shadow”> inside of an <object> tag.

Update: It’s all valid! Now I’ve got my webserver sending the mime type application/xhtml+xml instead of text/html. This screws up the formatting in firefox since it changes the page renderer to one that is much more strict. This makes page layout a bit more precise, but with a zero tolerance for errors. This will take a while…

Update (09/06/05): I had to disable the new mime type as it was messing with other websites on this server. Now all I have to fix is the right sidebar… It flows beyond the borders of it’s container on an article with zero comments.