Monday, October 19, 2009
Red Light Runner Crushed by City Bus
See video and original article here
I drove this route for nearly three years.
Unfortunately this accident was just a matter of time in coming.
Please SLOW DOWN around city busses and Big rigs! They cannot stop as fast as your little car. This bus weighs ~67,000 pounds, and where this accident happend, was going down hill at probably 30 MPH. A case of "get_home_itis" can be fatal, the driver of this SUV was VERY lucky.
From watching the video it appears, the driver of the bus may have put his own life at risk by swerving into the bridge to try to avoid the SUV. There is less than 2 feet between the front of the bus and the bus driver and whatever he/she may hit.
That bus driver is lucky to be alive, and should be considered a hero!
Friday, October 9, 2009
A Cool New Way to Read RSS Feeds
There is a new FREE (my favorite price) service being offered called http://www.tabbloid.com/ What this service does is take a generic list, or if you prefer, a custom list of RSS feeds and email any new headlines to you in the form of a PDF file.
The reason I like this option is that rather than sift through all of the various RSS feeds I like to watch one at a time, I simply open the PDF and get a nice clean summary of what is new. This is a huge time saver. It used to take me over an hour to go through all of the feeds only to find that most had not updated or what showed as an update was simply someone replying to a previous post. Now I can scan a couple pages of a PDF and select the articles I'm interested in reading in more detail in about 5 minutes.
Click here to download a copy of the PDF I received this morning: http://www.tabbloid.com/share/58470/a7b2ed36b4ba11de8e66001cc4dec67c
Like it? Visit http://www.tabbloid.com/
I offer no warranties on the performance of this service. I can only say I've been using it for several weeks with no problems.
As usual my opinions and advice are free and frequently worth the price.
Dan
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." -- Jacob A. Riis
The reason I like this option is that rather than sift through all of the various RSS feeds I like to watch one at a time, I simply open the PDF and get a nice clean summary of what is new. This is a huge time saver. It used to take me over an hour to go through all of the feeds only to find that most had not updated or what showed as an update was simply someone replying to a previous post. Now I can scan a couple pages of a PDF and select the articles I'm interested in reading in more detail in about 5 minutes.
Click here to download a copy of the PDF I received this morning: http://www.tabbloid.com/share/58470/a7b2ed36b4ba11de8e66001cc4dec67c
Like it? Visit http://www.tabbloid.com/
I offer no warranties on the performance of this service. I can only say I've been using it for several weeks with no problems.
As usual my opinions and advice are free and frequently worth the price.
Dan
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." -- Jacob A. Riis
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