Logo Maker
Posted 11:19 AM

MkLogo allows you to generate an image of some text in any font chosen (or uploaded). The "effects" are essentially parameterized shell scripts of ImageMagick examples. I used CoolText for a lot of quick site logos, but I got tired of the "glitzy" styles. Fonts aren't all categorized yet. Maybe I should make them editable, see how that plays out. Don't ask me why I seem to need to get a new domain name every time I write a small program. Habit borne of dotcom days.

Labels: open source, programming, web development

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FormLite instead of FormMail
Posted 8:12 PM

Created a simple FormLite program for saving an HTML form to a database file in a generic way that should be portable to most systems. IE: Anyone can paste it into the cgi-bin dir of nearly any hosting provider. It allows data to be exported to excel or to an html table. This was a frequent request of friends, etc. There are probably other things out there like this, but it was fun to write.

Labels: programming

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Universal Pharma? Education or Oil Profits? You Choose.
Posted 1:43 AM

When you vote for a president, are you really voting for one person? In some ways, yes, and only by reading policy papers and examining voting records can you really understand what they will do when in office.

Or you could follow the money. OpenSecrets.org allows you to view campaign contributions by industry. It's a quick way of showing which kinds of people are in of support which candidates, and IMHO, it's the most telling.

Hillary Clinton tops the list of health-industry donors with her plan to federally subsidize the medical industrial complex.

Barak Obama is tops among (you guessed it) education and computer people.

Giuliani had a lock on the gambling and oil industries, before he dropped out. Now it's split. McCain's got casinos and Romney's got oil.

And you can guess who the Washington lobbyists love...

Labels: politics

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