Bus Update – Its nice and cool in this bus….this time.

This post is coming to you as I ride the 81 north bus through Scottsdale. I’m almost at my stop, so this will be quick.

I still don’t have much of a sample…about a month and a half of riding the bus…but it seems like enough to comment on the number of times that the air conditioning does not work. In my short experiment, it has been broken about 25% of the time.

If the valley is serious about fixing the air quality, you think they could get some better buses. I don’t know what budgetary problems they have to deal with. Maybe it just is not in the cards to have decent buses. But it sure makes it tough to ride the bus in the summer.

FireBug – Best Add-on to Firefox Ever!

About a month ago, a coworker told me about FireBug. I did not get around to installing it myself until yesterday. Boy, I should have listened to him a month ago.
In the author’s own words:

FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, an error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.

Bottom line, too cool and too useful to describe. You just have to try it yourself. My favorite feature (Because I am completely innept at HTML) is the “Inspector” tab. With that tab open, you can move your mouse around an open web page, and it will highlight the source code to whatever object you are hovering over.

I’m reducing carbon dioxide pollution by 10,400 pounds per year….what are you doing?

Facts presented by a website promoting An Inconvenient Truth suggest that by not driving a typical car 10 miles per week, one can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 500 pounds per year. If you want to know why I care…

Hello world!

Hopefully I find time to actually use this thing. I don’t have anything exciting to blog about today that someone else hasn’t already covered better. I do plan on writing a few entries about my experiment with riding the bus to work.