Archive: June 2004
Elephants, Motorcycles, and a Pale Pink Feather
From the braintalk MS forum, on what to say when asked why you use a wheelchair:
It was a tragic circus accident involving elephants and a spinning motorcycle act. The worst part was they had to cut off my pale pink feather and sequined tank outfit at the hospital.
I really loved that costume.
Re-working the WordPress admin interface for Opera
DenkZEIT :: Umgebautes admin-Interface für Wordpress (Rebuilt administrative interface for WordPress)
Steffan has provided most of the workaround for the messy appearance of the default admin interface for Wordpress.
The problem is that the posting interface uses fieldset to position the page elements, and Opera won’t position fieldsets, just stacks them up one after the other. Steffan’s [...]
Firefox vs Opera
I’m getting a little annoyed with Opera (just a little). The main driver is the fact that it doesn’t display the WordPress admin screens properly.
I played with Firefox when it was Firebird, but wasn’t very motivated, so now I’m checking out Firefox again.
Opera things that I miss:
One letter keyboard shortcuts, specifically Back (Z) and Forward [...]
Bus Accessibility tally
Latest trip bus tally: DIA’s regular parking lots, both garage and economy, were full (!), so I had to park in the Podunk parking. Bus driver number one pressed his ramp deployment button repeatedly with no effect, and told me, so sorry, but there’s a bus right after me. Bus driver number two was more [...]
(Full Post)Wheelchair Tools and Airport Security
I had so little luggage for last week’s two day trip to Albuquerque, I decided to carry it on, including my folding hex wrenches. I allowed enough time to check the bag if security wouldn’t let it through.
On the outbound leg, the screener ran my bag through x-ray three times, then took it aside for [...]
What the …
Man in wheelchair asked to leave historic store – unbelievable.
Edited to add text, since the original has disappeared:
Man in wheelchair asked to leave historic store, may sue
The Associated Press
6/25/2004, 4:35 p.m. CT
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A Toney man is considering legal action after he was asked to leave a hardware store museum because [...]
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