Saw this on Boing Boing Gadgets the other day. Traced back to this blog, that I wish was in English

It’s true. I work in one of them. Dry towns, they’re called, for the uninitiated. These are places that never got around to repealing prohibition and now contain just enough votes against change to hold back the rest of the public from ordering a nice glass of wine with dinner. Why? It will destroy the community, of course!

Well, there is another side of the community that suffers from this mindset: the local business owners. And all the people who want to order a glass of wine and didn’t realize they had to bring their own. Oh yeah, and anyone who is in favor of forward progress.

Okay, Maybe I’m a bit biased.

I was commissioned, through EduComp, for the cause – to design a website to showcase the language of those working toward legislation that would allow beer and wine consumption at restaurants in one such town: Tisbury, otherwise known as Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

I should note that personally, I drink very little, perhaps one or two beers or a glass of wine in a month, although, like many, I went through a typical teenage binge phase. I blame the heat and madenning peer pressure of Savannah, Georgia. That’s beside the point, however: the legislation would be good for the town. As it stands, people can bring their own beer or wine to dinner, so the drunks are just as able to get drunk. If anything, this would be more regulatory, and it provides those who want to have a drink at a restaurant that option. I have had a lot of trouble understanding the logic behind the fight against it, aside from stubborn traditionalism.

Consider this a call to anyone who lives in Tisbury: please vote on this on April 14th. It’s a town meeting vote to get it on the ballot in 2010. It needs your help to pass. For more information, and some words from those involved in attempting to pass the legislation, visit the site itself: PreservingTisburysFuture.com

I will have a more comprehensive post in the web section about the process of the design of the site soon, and about upcoming websites, when they go live.

I just created a splash image and a front page to open the site. Partially influenced by a story I started writing a long time ago and never got around to finishing, and of course, influenced by the design of the site. I basically crammed all the elements of these pages together, while adding a few more.

Okay I suppose this post doesn’t work if you’re looking at an RSS feed, but anyway, my pride:

Just tossed the twitter feed on my blog. And hey, it works, how bout that!

Hooray technology.

As some may know, I work at Edu Comp and I am going to be showing some web design and home networking equipment off this saturday at the tech fair at the Oak Bluffs library. Come on by if you are a nerd and have free time (do those two things still go together anymore?) I may post from the event, or at least twitter it.

Yeah, I got in there. Busy day. Maybe an older works update at lunch time.

twitter.com/maurydegeofroy

Went to an informative seminar by Julie Roads of Writing Roads this morning and, despite my familiarity with Facebook, Blogs, Myspace, and other such sites beyond the scope of the lesson, and those taking it, I was glad to learn a little bit more about Twitter and gain an understanding of why it is catching on with more force than the rest of such networking sites. I won’t bore you with the details, as there are plenty of pro-twitter propaganda sites to go around, I only intended to say that I will be getting more involved with it. I have a twitter username (maurydegeofroy) that, currently, has only one post: questioning why I signed up in the first place. Now that I have discovered why, I will be working toward integrating it more into this site (most likely as a blog widget), and expanding twitter base, or whatever it’s called, to reach and be reached by more people. Yeah. More to come.

Here I am, thinking the blog looks lovely, and I go look at it on IE and find that all kinds of aspects of it aren’t working the way they’re supposed to. I know, I know, these are the standard web development problems but it’s still frustrating. I will have to spend a day getting everything W3C compliant.

Again, please, if anything looks wrong/broken on the site, let me know, I will swallow my pride and fix it.

Hmm, I just created the “Rant” section and I already have 2 in one day. Oh look what day it is…

Just tossed a little RSS feed link into the sidebar, I have some more design elements in the works, hopefully tomorrow I can dig in on my day off and plug away at some more stuff.

This is an approximation of what the background image looked like before I started making it whiter and whiter to let the text show through, by the way.

Click on the image for a larger version.