Archive: September 2007
Lafayette CO passes visitability ordinance
Lafayette adopted what is likely Colorado’s toughest residential access measure Tuesday night, mandating that a quarter of new homes built in the city guarantee access to people with disabilities.
The city’s “visitability” ordinance, passed by a 7-0 vote, requires that 25 percent of new homes constructed in Lafayette include at least one stairless entrance into [...]
When Accessibility isn’t Hospitality
When Accessibility isn’t Hospitality
With a modest column of space, an unremarkable bit of engineering and an ascent of less than 10 feet, Buddakan had given her a path to a meal and an experience like any other diner’s.
Or had it?
The author is making a point that grudging or thoughtless access is an insult in itself, [...]
(Full Post)National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week
Lisa Copen of Rest Ministries has written to let me know that it is National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week. You can find an awareness video, chat seminars and more at Rest Ministries’ National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week site.
(Full Post)Getting Old’s a Bitch
I’m getting out of the car at the grocery store. An elderly lady, leaning on her shopping cart on her way to her car, stops to watch me put the wheelchair together. “Isn’t that amazing?” she says.
“Yup,” I say.
She tells me about her spinal stenosis. And her bad balance. And how she hates to use [...]
Multiple authors, multiple time zones?
I’m setting up my first multiple author Wordpress blog, for an organization with contributors across the United States. I’ve searched in vain for some methodology or plugin that allows authors to have their own time zones, so that their posts will be properly timestamped.
Is anyone aware of such a thing, or do I just have [...]
Outlook 2003 – 24 hour clock, multiple time zones
Since everyone who sees my Outlook calendar seems to be amazed by this, I’ll put links to the instructions here.
I’ve been working satellite operations, where everything is in UTC. I’ve been working weird hours, and frequently am unable to subtract six from a current (or future) UTC time. So I set up my calendar to [...]
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