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Veerle: “Like in any aspect of design the attention to details makes a good design perfect. So when all furniture is in place you’ll need some accents to finish it off. It doesn’t come to mind at first instance but there is a fragile beauty called glass. I’ve found a perfect Belgian designer called Anna Torfs that has a gift of breathing life into her colorful glass pieces.”

Here’s a shot of the bathroom–almost done…

Copacetic » Blog Archive » Everything you needed to know about cycling in Dublin: “Yes, if you manage to negotiate the telegraph pole, that is a waste bin behind it.”

Darren Barefoot: “Now, of course, Star Wars borrows heavily from Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress. All art is part theft–I just thought Eragon was a particularly egregious example. It’s a pretty bad movie. Malkovich, Carlyle and Irons chew the scenery into sawdust”

Usually the city requires a certified electrician to repair weatherheads–the place that your electrical line connects to your house or building–and that’s been a concern. Today, the mayor said that “the City would not be an impediment to getting your electricity back on” which was great to hear.

Normally, the city utility wouldn’t hook up/reconnect/power up your electrical connection unless a certified electrician inspected the weatherhead and the city approved it. The mayor signed a proclamation that helps to eliminate much of the certification process. That’s not to say that the rest of the inspection isn’t needed, but at least for the next 30 days, a competent electrician can get “certified” by the city and get people helped.

The reason this is so important is underscored in this example:

Four homes are powered by one transformer. Three of the homes have no weatherhead damage but one does. The three homes that are fine would have to wait until the fourth house is fixed before getting power back.

I’m in that situation now. On person has to get their weatherhead fixed and based on what I’ve seen, I won’t get power for at least another week.

I want to cry.

http://www.ci.springfield.mo.us/community/tv23/index.html

Get your news updates directly from the city. They’ve been digitizing the updates and posting them pretty quickly. I’m at work right now so I can download these for later.

Daring Fireball Linked List: “Did you notice the nice ring tone Steve Jobs demoed on the iPhone during the keynote? DF reader Andrew Neesley translated it and made it into a MIDI file. I dig it.”

BTW, I downloaded this direct to my Treo 650 to tide me over until I can get iPhone’d…