Yeah, I saw they’re releasing Bledsoe. I’m a little surprised, but not *that* surprised. It’s too bad. He didn’t live up to expectations, but then again, the Patriots didn’t want him. He was definitely an improvement over Rob Johnson. He was a marquee player, and a number one draft pick.
It’s interesting that the story of the current champion New England Patriots started while Bledsoe was still with the team. I read in a writeup on ESPN.com that Bledsoe started all but one game he played in in the NFL. I’m pretty sure that one game was in the playoffs the first year the Pats won the Superbowl — he played the entire second half against the Steelers or something.
So I guess all of Western New York will be looking at this JP Losman guy for the next couple months … Hopefully he’ll be more Drew Bledsoe than Rob Johnson.
I think private accounts for Social Security are bad. I just saw on the cover of USA Today today a poll asking what people think of Bush’s plan, with results broken out by age. The trend was that younger people like it and older people don’t.
My opinion? They’re going to give every taxpayer something like three options as to what to do with their Social Security money. Which people are best suited to take advantage of this option? People living in trailer parks? The inner city? Or people who already invest and know what the hell they’re doing, people with money to spare? The fact is, wealthier, knowledgable people are going to do better, on average, with this system than poorer, less-educated people. It will widen the gap between haves and have-nots.
And who really needs Social Security? People who are investing in the stock market? Or people who don’t know the difference between a stock and a bond? It’s the latter. And they are not the people who will see the benefit from this system. Therefore I think it’s a poor solution. In fact, I don’t think it’s a solution at all.
Also — I have strong concerns about what effect will occur on these three or so funds when one third or more of the entire US population invests in them. Will their prices plummet? Will the skyrocket? Let me tell you what I think. People want to diversify. It distributes risk. So if I put my Social Security money in fund A, I’m probably not going to put the rest of my money in it. Therefore, I may be more inclined to sell it if I already own it. I might sell it for a lower price, its value might fall. Then these three funds that the government just spent billions of dollars buying will lose a lot of value quickly.
The front page now validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I can’t quite get it to work as XHTML 1.0 strict.
Big news today.
Besides the fact that Prince Charles and Camilla are getting hitched. Big news today.
Besides the fact that Prince Charles and Camilla are getting hitched.
Yahoo put out an official toolbar for Firefox. It’s 0.2 beta, but it offers immediate improvement over the homebrew version. Notably, the alerts work.
Yahoo put out an official toolbar for Firefox. It’s 0.2 beta, but it offers immediate improvement over the homebrew version. Notably, the alerts work.
If you’re viewing this site with Firefox, it should now display correctly. Well, there might be issues at 1280×1024. But don’t tell anybody.
I finally got this page to validate. Right now it validates under HTML 4.01 and CSS. I don’t know whether it’s worth my time to see if it would validate as anything different or perhaps “better.”
Here’s something that caught me by surprise: When I finally declared a doctype, it kept breaking the site, both in Firefox and IE. It appears that when either browser encounters an explicit doctype declaration, it holds the CSS to strict standards. Who knew? So I fixed all the CSS, and when I put the doctype declaration back in, everything worked. And my validation worked. So I’m in business. Scroll all the way down to see my validation buttons.
I got my Halo 2 Stats page to validate first, because there’s a lot less code there.