Eubie's notes

Half of the 62 million dog owners in the United States take their pets with them when they travel, according to the Travel Industry Association of America. Hotels are targeting this market, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle story by Jan R. Costello.

Using wind to generate electricity sounds like a good idea until you have to deal with realities such as rules prohibiting putting the wind turbines on the tops of mountains and bird fatalities. In California, 1,400 wind turbine permits were renewed but an environmental group plans to appeal the decision, according the Contra Costa Times.

Highlight: “Mike Boyd of Californians for Renewable Energy said he fears the sea of turbines along Interstate 580 will give wind power “a black eye nationwide” unless bird fatalities can be reduced.”

Fletch’s Smoky Mountain Journal is always good for a few minutes of diversion with his beautiful photographs. I always think of an old Barefoot Jerry song “Smokies” when I’m on that site. I see a few members of Barefoot Jerry and Area Code 615 are still making music.

An Adobe site that will slowly convert PDFs into html. I’m not a fan of PDFs, but this link may be helpful some time.

Now what was the popular vote count in the 2000 Presidential Election? Oh yeah, Gore received more votes.

MovableType 2.64 has been successfully installed. Thanks to Jace Herring at bloghosts.

Jeff Jarvis on 10 ways blogs improve journalism.

The web site of this journalism conference was lost from my bookmarks, but now it’s found again thanks to JD Lassica.

Tricks used by spammers as reported by The Spammers’ Compendium.