The WLOX website now has aerial video of the massive destruction in Biloxi and Gulfport. Downtown Biloxi is almost a total loss. The few buildings that are left standing appear to be in very bad shape. The main bridge between Biloxi and Ocean Springs is mostly destroyed. A few sections near the drawbridge survived and… Read More »
Katrina tag on Flickr Katrina clusters on Flickr There are links to slideshows are on the Sun Herald news page Yahoo News slideshow – link is in left column Clarion-Ledger 9/6/05 Clarion-Ledger 9/7/05 Clarion-Ledger 9/8/05 Clarion-Ledger 9/14/05 Clarion-Ledger 9/19/05 Clarion-Ledger 9/22/05 Clarion-Ledger 10/4/05 All Clarion-Ledger photos
Updates from friends: Most houses and buildings that were on Hwy. 90 in Biloxi are gone, such as the Dantzler House and Church of the Redeemer President Casino at the Broadwater is only a barge, and it’s sitting in the parking lot of the Coliseum down the road Update: The President casino mostly survived, at… Read More »
The only really good news I have about the hurricane is that my mother made it through okay by going to east Mobile with some friends. Hopefully, her house back in Biloxi is still standing with minimal damage. The photo of this McDonald’s is haunting. This picture was taken at the south end of Edgewater… Read More »
The Good Morning Silicon Valley newsletter led me to a fine bit of unusual food sampling and review at The Sneeze, part of a hilarious series of culinary experimentation from Steve, Don’t Eat It (highly recommended for the not easily offended). Ah, this was a blog post I would have been proud to have written… Read More »
Tomorrow, Ajax America will announce that they are considering investing in either the San Jose Earthquakes or the Kansas City Wizards of Major League Soccer here in the US. Ajax is interested only in a supporting investment position, so both teams are still looking for lead investors. Having Ajax as part owners of the Earthquakes… Read More »
Forget seafood, eat riverfood. My brother-in-law and I caught these two brook trout (and a couple other brook and brown trout we released) in the South Yuba River a couple hundred yards from our cabin this past June. They made a fine dinner that night for my wife and me. The South Yuba is stocked… Read More »
Each week, more and more companies are jumping on the VoIP train. The next major company like to debut a new, integrated VoIP service is Yahoo. I just learned that Yahoo bought Dialpad back in June, and that acquisition certainly gives them a big headstart on integrating VoIP with their Yahoo Messenger client. My friend… Read More »
Many months ago, IBM announced that they were open sourcing and donating their Reusable Dialog Components library to the Jakarta project at the Apache Software Foundation. Finally, version 1.0 of the RDC has been released. The RDC is a JSP tag library that simplifies the development of server side code for generating VoiceXML documents for… Read More »
It’s been ages since I’ve written about Soccerphone, or even about anything at all. The last few weeks have just been too hectic. But, I did find time this weekend to make a few updates to Soccerphone, which is an automated speech application I built a few years ago so I could receive live Major… Read More »