Author: Brandon Kraft

  • talk about a grand opening

    Mishap Mars Opening of Constitution Museum (registration required) This tripped me out. There was a new constitutional museum being dedicated and opening yesterday up in Philadelpha. From the story: The opening of the National Constitution Center, a museum devoted to the United States Constitution, was marred today when a huge wood and steel frame collapsed,…

  • Financial Aid Reform

    Well, ladies and gentlemen, Midwestern State’s Summer I term has now ended. It’s about time. One thing that bothers me about attending school here this summer is the financial impact it has. I just cut the check for the $825 Summer II tuition payment. Financial aid programs need to do a better job of working…

  • crickets and japan ‘education’

    A Carpet of Crickets in the West (registration required) Victums Say Japan Ignores Sex Crimes Committed by Teachers (registration required) ::crickets:: The LA Times is reporting about a massive plague of crickets that are swarming the western states. It is getting so bad that transportation agency have to post advisory signs warning motorists to slow…

  • search engine

    Okay- the search engine is acting funny. Last time it did this, I just reparied the database and it worked fine except I lost some data (just comments but still). I would like to check out my coding to see if there is anything else I can do to fix that before repairing it again.

  • blogs: politics

    WatchBlog: 2004 Election News, Opinion and Commentary Whoa- this is cool. It is three weblogs side-by-side with Demo, Third Party and Repub views. I don’t know where to even begin on this. Sensory overload seriously. What is cool though, the backend for the site is the same webapp I installed on my server… see what…

  • a sad day in austin

    www.TexasSports.com: NCAA Milestone I don’t feel like a long post tonight. UT was just eliminated from CWS. It was a good close game though- it wasn’t a blowout like many games have been recently.