In the past few days I have been going through my broken links. Some of them are for images that I had posted a very long time ago and no longer have on my web space. I was able to find some of them in my flickr photos and replaced the links.
The majority of the broken links in my blog are for external sources. There is a rash of old news articles, hockey articles, and pictures. Now the pictures are not things that I have stolen or anything. They are pictures that I was provided an embed code for, but the image is just gone now.
I guess what bothers me the most is the lack of archives for news articles. Data storage is cheap why do news organizations delete content? Also, why can’t the Griffins keep all of their old news articles?
Tags: It’s been a while, and I have neglected to make any real posts in something like two months. I have been posting small status messages on my Facebook page and at my Twitter feed, but nothing that would really mean anything.
Work has been going well. I am out at the park on the weekends.
Oh and Drake got his very own Digital Camera from Grandma Klein! He has been very excited to take a bunch of pictures.
I am very excited for Art Prize. Living in the downtown area is going to be great come September. A free random art show around the city. Not too bad that the winner pulls down $250,000.
The city water and sewer rates have gone up.
The “Readiness to Serve Charge” has gone up 13.67% from $57.44 to $65.29. Even before any water is used we have to pay $65.29 just because we are hooked up to the system. By comparison the electric companies “Just to be a customer charge” is $18.00 per quarter. The gas company? $25.50 per quarter.
Not only are we now paying more just to have the opportunity to use water, the rate for the water has gone up.
Water Rate last quarter: $1.57 per HCF. This quarter the rate is $1.591 per HCF for an increase of 1.34%.
Sewer Rate last quarter: $2.58 per HCF of water use. This quarter the rate is $2.898 per HCF of water use for an increase of 12.33%.
I’m just flabbergasted.
Averaged out with the same HCF usage of 18 our bill increased by 10.56%.
