b.rox

Today is the first day on the job for my new boss.

The Mid-City poster contest is now officially over, and you can check out the winners.

Yesterday, the District Attorney dropped the charges against the suspect in a quintuple murder because the witness had disappeared. Today, the NOPD located the witness.

“I want to make sure that when you’re firing your bullets because you’re dissatisfied you fire them at the right folks.” — The Honorable C. Ray Nagin

Kudos to Silence Is Violence for letting people know about Nagin’s State of the City address tomorrow. [Wednesday, May 30, 6:30pm, Nat'l D-Day Museum]

Welcome art.rox to the “dot rox” family of blogs. They’ll be writing about “art journalism outside the big media centers of New York City and Los Angeles.”

As I was walking home from a community meeting last night, a rat scuttled out from a garbage strewn area and ran right over my foot.

I thought today was just Groundhog Day, but it’s also World Wetlands Day and America’s Wetland Day. (Thanks, Miss Malaprop.)

The table in my database which stores comments on this weblog has become corrupt twice over the last week; I’ve repaired it (again) so here’s hoping it holds.

Why is Captain Picard of the Starship Enterprise talking about my mother?

I made a page on the New Orleans Wiki for the Nov. 7th ballot. Please add any relevant information.

Congrats to J & Day on the completion of their house. This means it’s taken less time for them to build a brand new house than for us to renovate half of ours.

Roy Bragg writes about NOLA bloggers (including yours truly) in the San Antonio Express-News.

I’ll be on the local CBS affiliate, WWL channel 4, sometime this evening, talking about you-know-what.

At last, an easy way to geocode Flickr pix. You can see some of my pix on a map here.

I’m quoted in an article by Roy Bragg for the San Antonio Express News.

I’ll be hawking some ROX at the Antigravity Alternative Media Expo this Saturday, so come by and harrass me.

New Orleans Truth is conducting an interesting experiment in social media and citizen journalism.

If you’re interested in the Rising Tide conference — and who isn’t? — now is the time to register.

The August issue of Harper’s arrived in today’s mail, the first magazine to be delivered to our house in a year because of the flooding.