http://swerdfeger.com/wordpress Is that clicking sound normal? Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:58:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am reading Heat by George Monbiot. Its a good book, well researched, and well referenced. He has just introduced Carbon Rations, where the total amount of Carbon the earth can absorb is divided by the number of people to determine there ration (800kg/year). I the major problem I see ... http://swerdfeger.com/wordpress/2007/07/20/carbon-rations/ A radical Idea on Senate reform that will never fly? Let me first Say that this Idea is not mine, my girlfriend came up with it when ranting about how the senate should kill this bill and that bill and the people don’t want these things to happen, etc. Any way, we ... http://swerdfeger.com/wordpress/2006/12/20/a-radical-idea-on-senate-reform-that-will-never-fly/ This Is my plan to fix the Big problem that Ottawa is in with its LRT system. I call it The way forward with Light Rail December * delay - Ensure Siemens that they are still the prefered contractor, for electric light rail - but that if they actually want ... http://swerdfeger.com/wordpress/2006/12/13/the-way-forward-on-light-rail/ First, let me say that I believe that the sovereignty of the state lies in the collected assembly of all its citizens. The citizens are the ones that should have the power and the citizens should be able to exercise that power without reliance on the collective bodies of government. To initiate ... http://swerdfeger.com/wordpress/2006/11/07/proposal-for-referendum/ gocarbonzero.org allows you to calculate your carbon impact. So I compared driving with a 2007 yaris (40mi/Gal) from NYC to SF, Thats a total of 2915 miles. This works out to 0.73 tons of CO2. but if I fly its only 2575 miles and 0.57 tons of CO2. I can conclude that ... http://swerdfeger.com/wordpress/2006/11/01/carbon-travel/ I found this post about trying to figure out what tom Cruise Foot Print would be. Any way I am sure Tom is not nearly as bad as his number would make him out to be. Any way I for personal resons decided to take the test indicated. My Results ... http://swerdfeger.com/wordpress/2006/09/29/foot-print/ The Other Day I learned a few things about real estate. most “Agents” use mls to list houses. This means that most houses are all listed in a single database. next I learned that there is this thing called the center for realter technology. and they make mostly Open source software (here). that does “Stuff” ... http://swerdfeger.com/wordpress/2006/09/28/the-real-estate-market/ I added the rest of the pics from the old gallery. At least all I am going to Add, this includes Rob, Snach, and a bunch from old vacations, weddings and canal skating…etc. http://swerdfeger.com/wordpress/2006/09/27/gallery-back-up-2/ so we got some Linux stickers and put them on connies laptop you can view them in all there glory here. YAY Tux! http://swerdfeger.com/wordpress/2006/09/10/linux-on-a-laptop/ Given that its September and that Ottawa is not going to have any more 40 degree Celcius days. I have turned the server in my living room on again gallery. most of the pics from the old gallery arn’t there because I have changed computers, in the down time. most except for marcs gallery. ... http://swerdfeger.com/wordpress/2006/09/05/gallery-back-up/