Check it out

Well-made video about the Texas Ramp project... shows you why I am so passionate about it.

What is a ramp?

A DallasRamps team leader calls what I refer to (by default) as a "wheelchair ramp" by another name.

It is a "wooden structure with ramp-like qualities".

Some of the clients for whom we build ramps do not use a wheelchair. Some are marginally ambulatory, but ambulatory nonetheless, and just have difficulty with steps. So they don't need a "wheelchair ramp".

July 2008 Ramp

I didn't build it myself ... just had a picture taken with Mrs. L

1000 text messages

I made the mistake this week of tweaking Twitter to "track Ubuntu", which means that any time someone mentions "Ubuntu" in a message within Twitter that I will get that message on my cell phone.

1000 instant messages all within the same day the new Ubuntu release (8.04) was "published".

Doh!