I discovered yesterday that the Night of a Thousand Dinners is on November 6th. I thought is was in December.

That does not give much time for publicity. I made a web site for the Salt Lake Adopt a Minefield dinner. Hopefully we will be able to find people to host dinners in Provo and Park City.

I made a page for the Utah Adopt-A-Minefield effort. For information on US and international events, check out: Night of a Thousand Dinners or The Adopt A Minefield site by the UNA.

The big bag of goodies just came in. I am an evil person. When the kiddies come to trick or treat, I intend to fill their bags with healthier stuff. Last year, they got Bug Bites...this year they will get a combo of gummy bears (from natural ingredients), Fig Newmans, Glee Gum (all natural again). I might get a bag of the cheap stuff to hide the fact the fact that we are giving out the good stuff. I would hate for a trick or treater to toss a pumpkin though our window for giving out organic foods.

Well, we are getting ready to do the presentation on the Logic of the founding fathers. We have a massive pile of research, and I didn't get the web site done. The only thing on the web site is information on the Faith of the Founding Fathers. This is not the prime research, the stuff on the logic is more interesting, and more revelant to the visions they would have had for the US.

The sad thing is that after several years of having web sites that no-one ever found, I am finally starting to get a small amount of traffic. Yet, I am now just too burned out to do what I really want.

Conservation bill light on conservation... [Forbes].

I really think the conservatives misunderstand the economy. They look at growing unemployment, the glut in the market and determine that the thing we need to do is to increase consumption.

The problem is not with the amount of consumption, but with the quality of consumption. Were the Bush Administration to jump on the conservation band wagon and demand that we improve energy efficiency, it would due more to create jobs than feeding the glut of resources currently on the market.

Let's approach this from a different direction: The BLS essentially is trying to define productivity as the amount of goods (material wealth) that a worker creates in hour. Well, when we find a short cut to making more of something, the labor is still around. The labor then gets wasted on something less productive. The big productivity jump in programming means no more jobs for second rate programmers like me; so I must do something inefficient like affiliate marketing.

Conservation, on the other hand, concentrates on resource productivity. By employing extra labor, we get more for our gallon of gas. It increases the quality of consumption.

Let's try another tact. The US places its highest taxes on wages. In many cases the US actually subsidizes the extraction of material. Taxing something means you want less of it. So taxing jobs means we want fewer jobs. Subsidizing oil extraction means we want more fuel burned. The conservationist sees this equation as backwards. What we should do is tax labor less and resource production more...this creates jobs as companies employ more and more workers to get the most out of the resources we do put into production.

As soon as this founding fathers talk talk is over I hope to get some time to work out ideas on Crass Commercial.com.

Day three of the drug experiment. Ringing in ears continues, but the pressure is a bit less. The big problem is that I am supposed to take the Prednisone pills with breakfast and lunch...and I usally skip breakfast and lunch, so I will gain weight ... yuck.

I added a section of Southern Utah Posters to iMoab.com...I doubt I will ever see a sale, but it is a quick way to add some graphics to a rather boring site.

Rush Limbaugh has admitted to being addicted to pain killers. So we can now all ask: "Well was that Rush being a big fat jerk, or the pain killers being a big fat jerk?"

Speaking about drugs, I am on drugs big time right now. About a month ago, I had a pop in my left ear...since then I've had a ringing in my ear. A doctor at this company (I had a doctor's visit yesterday) put me on something called Prednisone to see if it will reduce the inflamation and hearing loss in the ear.

Now I have a rining in my ear and a head ache. I haven't had one of those for awhile. Uh, what what that you said? Could you type louder?

I had my birthday party at Cafe Roma...an Italian restaurant on 3300 South. Not much else going on at the moment.

Hi, I won the idiot of the month award! I designed a quick admin page for a site. Since it was for quick administration, I didn't add much security. I just gave the page an odd name, and never added any links to the site. The really big mistake was that I added a link that would let me delete elements on the page. Anyway, I accessed the page with a computer that was running Alexa. Anyway, apparently decided to run a scan of the admin page. It dutifully executed all of the delete links.

Fortunately, I have current backups. But I still deserve a whack upside the head for my short sighted design.

Lesson learned. Never have anything on a web page that performs a database operation as the result of a click.

On the commercial side, I added a silly ad page for Surplus Computers. I doubt it will save me from my financial doom. See, I proved that I am a fool. I need money to be parted from!

In the grubbing for cash department, I put up a page with Halloween Promos. Of course, my grubbing for cash never really seems to work all that well. I don't think my plan of making a living by being a phantom living on the Internet will work out.

On the upside, there actually were new ads for programmers in the want-ads on Sunday. That doesn't happen all that often. Unfortunately, the two most interesting companies were asking for ASP (the dark side of the force). That means I don't get to use all the nifty PHP tools I've designed in the last year.

Maybe the grubbing for cash idea will work, and I won't have to.

Yikes! there were 2079 spams in my email today! I hate logging into to the computer. I used to scan the headers. Now I just delete. Most of my spam actually comes because I own the domain gjct.com. gjct.net is a popular email service for Grand Junction, unfortunately, the people using gjct.net aren't all that bright. They sign up for email lists with invalid addresses. It's a real head ache.

BTW, if you are one of the idiots that buy email lists. They are all garbage. They are full of bad addresses. Don't feed the problem.