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CCS was at tax cap with +4.27% (last year voters sunk a 1.8% inc.) #518vote budget cuts 17.1 staff, extracurrics, and 1/2 of sports prog

— May 15th via Twitter
#Cambridge school budget (failed 1st time last year) passes by healthy margin, 780-427; two educators win empty board seats

— May 15th via Twitter
Budgets at Hoosick Falls and Cambridge Central schools both pass, as do bus props, etc. #518vote

— May 15th via Twitter
Plenty of activity at HFCS; concert, art show, voting, and BOE meeting. Local school election results 2nite from #Cambridge & #HoosickFalls

— May 15th via Twitter
Morbid obesity kills famously fat cat - Times Union http://t.co/VuZm463y

— May 7th via Twitter
The Barackness Monster ain't buying it!

— April 25th via Twitter
Spit out that chew and get yo mouth checked foo: free oral cancer screenings thru month of April http://t.co/M5Djk6ru

— April 7th via Twitter
Building stuff was easier in the'40s: furniture store owner wants 2 rebuild 19' ladderback landmark, expects resistance http://t.co/UzJQF077

— April 7th via Twitter
Local NY municipalities largely don't heed open meeting law amendment to post info online http://t.co/2ZeCwKVs Does your's?

— April 7th via Twitter
Bennington Vt Big Bros Big Sis celebrates 25th "silver" anniversary of Bowl fer Kids event by raising $50k http://t.co/dI9PG36n

— April 2nd via Twitter

Site Redesign #42

Posted June 30th, 2005 at 10:27PM

Well, here she is. Several lazy days of coding. Alright, I’ll admit. It’s basically just a combination of Kubrick and Equix. The design of Kubrick, the colors of Equix, hammered into a nice seamless inbetween.

Yes, I went back to one-column. They just look a lot more neater, and a bit less common. The old “header, wide column, short column, footer” formula is getting tired. Some people step up to three or four columns, but that’s just.. overkill.

Expect a few tweaks, and be sure to point out any irregularities with the new design. I don’t have IE on the laptop, so I’m flying blind. Have tested with Safari and Firefox. Only two browsers anyone should be using anyway, but.. I digress.

Out With 2004, In With 2005!

Posted December 31st, 2004 at 3:33AM

Well, another year, come and gone. The blog is almost a year old now. It’s matured a great deal. Starting out as a strictly political blog. Slowly swinging to personal issues. Lately it’s been almost entirely personal, with the occasional political outburst.

Looking through the archives, the most busy blogging times seem to be during finals weeks. And right after I arrived at school this fall.

Looks like I’ll be staying at bakshi.us territory for awhile longer. Never went out and got a domain.

Lately have been doing a lot of tweaking. Adding a lot of little bells and whistles. Updated the design a little bit more. I’m calling this one version 3.2.

Stay tuned.

BjÃ¶rk Re-Design

Posted December 12th, 2004 at 5:00AM

I got the urge to re-design, and I decided to do it with my vision of beauty – BjÃ¶rk.

I want to do a bit more editing sometime soon, but yes.

Also, I’m trying to think of a new name for the site, just in case I do go ahead and get my own domain. Any thoughts out there? So far the best I’ve thought of, is ‘intellectual smut.’ But.. Yeah. I sort of wanted something short, and techie.. So.. whatever comes to mind, comment!

white male consumer version 2.1

We’re In The Big Time Now

Posted December 1st, 2004 at 6:01PM

Why 2004 was the year of the blog

The term “blog” has been chosen as the top word of 2004 by a US dictionary publisher.

Merriam-Webster said “blog” headed the list of most looked-up terms on its site during the last twelve months.

During 2004 blogs, or web logs, have become hugely popular and some have started to influence mainstream media.

Merriam-Webster defines a blog as: “a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks”.

The word will now appear in the 2005 version of Merriam-Webster’s printed dictionary.