Rants

Raves September 11, 2026 4 min

The Fall of WordPress

How Elementor finally killed WordPress for me, and many other web developers.

Rants August 20, 2017 1 min

If you are getting green bars on video using FireFox this is the solution. I've found too many old sites with instruction on turning off hardware acceleration in Flash, but no one uses Flash any more. Duh. The reason you're getting green bars on your videos in FireFox is your video card is old. You'

Disaster Preparedness April 28, 2016 3 min

PDS Tornado Watch: The Particularly Dangerous Situation That Wasn't

On April 26, 2016 the Storm Prediction Center issued a PDS Tornado Watch that included a large portion of the North Texas area. This is a special kind of watch issued only in a Particularly Dangerous Situation. That is to say when computer models are predicting the possibility of extraordinarily sev

Politics January 15, 2013 3 min

Founding Fathers Gave Individuals The Right To Bear Arms

Disaster Preparedness March 31, 2012 7 min

Re: 'UNSURVIVABLE!' New tornado warnings aim to scare

The National Weather Service seems to believe there is a way to fix stupid. In a test that starts Monday, five weather service offices in Kansas and Missouri will use words such as "mass devastation," 'unsurvivable" and "catastrophic" in a new kind of warning that's based on the severity of a storm's expected impact.