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Condolences

Ellen Spertus — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:01:42 -0700

Brad,

I'm sorry for your loss. It sounds like he was a great man, and I know you and your family will always miss him.

Ellen

Bill Tate's Celebration of Life

Judy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:59:07 -0700

Dear Brad and all the family of Bill Tate,

I attended your father's funeral yesterday to pay my respects to a wonderful man and I have to say it was one of the most special funerals I have ever been to. I worked at GML from 1979-1988, and would likely still be a part of Allied Signal / Honeywell had I not chosen to stay at home to raise my children. It was a fabulous place to work and it really was like one big happy family. I met so many wonderful people and had so many great experiences in my time there. Your father was a very well respected and gentle man. I knew him enough to say hello and have a few words, and he knew my name and would always acknowledge me. After hearing the family who spoke so lovingly about him yesterday, you gave us all a very personal glimpse into the life of a truly remarkable man. It's wonderful that you've had such an amazing man in your lives.

I want to apologize for not approaching the family yesterday. I got a little caught up in the "Garrett Reunion", seeing some people I hadn't seen for twenty years.

What I would like to say to your family is this. Your love for your father, poppa, Bill is the greatest gift you gave him and I just know he was so proud of all of you yesterday, and every day.

I felt fortunate to be a part of Bill's Celebration of Life. Thank you.

Two others

brad — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:26:16 -0800

Jeff Ubois

Tim Pozar

(That makes 8 including myself, with one or two other tentatives.)

At 10, shares would be about $250 each, expecting to recover perhaps $180 each after selling it -- no guarantees.

Scanner interest

Chris Peterson — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:13:53 -0800

I am tentatively interested, depending on the cost.

--Chris

Count me in

Patricia — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:38:47 -0800

Brad - count me in. I'd love to get rid some papers!

I LOVE this idea

Sashi — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:28:47 -0800

Brad - I am so in! Let me know when you've reached critical mass.

has potential

Laura — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:10:59 -0800

I'm kind of in favor of bringing the paper to the scanner, not the scanner to the paper. It's the same principle that makes you jettison things when you move to a new house. If I am required to carry the paper, I will have much less paper that I decide needs keeping.

I'm in!

Danny — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:28:12 -0800

I like the idea of a) teenage slave labor, and b) a good OCR program. I've been scanning paperwork on and off for a year, using linux tools and Google's Tesseract-OCR program; it's okay, but it'd be great to do a bulk OCR of old scans while I'm timesharing the current scanner. Just having some sort of regular batch access to the OCR software for ongoing day-to-day scanning would be a boon (not sure what the software's license would have to say about that).

EFF already has a good scanning deal with a company,but I believe they may be D.C. based and mostly concerned with our FOIA work.

Thanks!!

Brian from SEO Position — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:37:33 -0700

Thanks for the quick reply Brad. Patching the theme.inc doesn't seem like a very hard workaround. I will send that method over to my programmer to see if he can implement it.

Thanks again!!
Brian

I patched theme.inc

brad — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:39:00 -0700

Lines 1052 and 1064 (in 5.3)
diff -r1.337.2.2 theme.inc 1052c1052 < $output = l($name, 'user/'. $object->uid, array('title' => t('View user profile.'))); --- > $output = l($name, 'user/'. $object->uid, array('title' => t('View user profile.'), 'rel' => t('nofollow'))); 1064c1064 < $output = l($object->name, $object->homepage); --- > $output = l($object->name, $object->homepage, array('rel' => t('nofollow')) );

I agree it should go into Drupal. Even though I warn spammers that their links will be useless to them for SEO, some still do it. If drupal made it standard, the spammers would eventually clue in, I hope.

how to add/code to disallow comment links

SEO Position — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:28:08 -0700

Hi,
I've been looking for a simple module that would rel=nofollow comments. I read where you said:

"In addition I modified drupal to use the rel=nofollow tag on homepage links — it already does it on other links in comments"

So, I wanted to ask how you did it!? I wish that Drupal just allowed a simple check box in the comments settings to add the rel=nofollow but unfortunatley it does not.

So, any quick ideas on how to do it?

Thanks

homepage links

brad — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:57:46 -0700

That's in includes/common.inc of drupal. You will see the code that outputs the "homepage" object with a link, around line 940, and just change the text of the link to add rel=nofollow.

Amazes me though that even though I tell spammers I am doing this, some have not yet clued in. I guess it will take time for them to learn not to bother.

nofollow on homepage links?

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:24:37 -0700

Hi Brad,

Great site. Could you share how you modified the code to include rel="nofollow" on homepage links (as opposed to only within comments)?

Thanks,
Alex

Doesn't work

brad — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:32:16 -0800

It’s trouble when the people who enforce the fines also profit from the fines. Perhaps if the fines went to charity.

Right now, for example, the airlines realized they could cut the bag weight limit from 70lbs to 50lbs, and charge for extra. Now it’s a profit center, hundreds of millions of dollars in overcharges.

Charging people in flyer miles makes more sense.

Use a deposit system

Fixx — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 05:23:11 -0800

I got this idea the last time I attended a Renassaisance Festival and witnessed many people doing thing which were really inconsiderate, even unsafe to others.

The solution I think is to have all passengers charged (or at least sign something contractual authorizing a charge) for what is essentially a deposit when paying for the flight. Passengers recorded breaking the rules during the flight and reasonably identified cannot collect their deposit (or are charged) after the flight. It is sort of like "red light cameras" but instead of being considered a fine, they'd be required to advance the funds.

I'm thinking that passengers with a good record would not be precharged vs signature, and bad record passengers would be required to pay in advance, or even pay out a larger deposit.

The base figure I'm thinking of is $40. High enough that all but the most wealthy will resent it, and low enough to stay out of court over.

I like this idea for a number of reasons, including that at least in theory it ought to reduce the cost of air travel if only because things might run more smoothly as a result. If it does, it sort of "Socialises" air faire's a bit.

It also occurs to me that the fines collected might soon after it is started pay the cost of all the security cameras which would need to be operated to record much of this (assuming the planes don't already have them) and equipment to record the video. Finally I'm thinking that though it is unlikely this recorder would be built to necessarily withstand an air disaster, were some forethought put into this system, it could at least be of assistance in monitoring suspicious behavior on the planes if a problem did arise.