Yeah.
No life at all.
4:30am. Sunday, formerly Saturday night. I spent all fscking night upgrading the guts of my blog (and helping Rachal learn iTunes by phone). Whoopee. The upside is I’ve turned moderation off and simplified things for me (and you). The blogroll is now a simple text file I can edit without having to mess with the CMS. I’m using the include tag, not as simple as I want, but it’ll do. We will begin Podcasting next week. The downside is TypeKey still doesn’t work.
MT 3.15. A mandatory upgrade. We wouldn’t want them doing that now, would we? (Follow the lonk to learn about the latest MovableType exploit, install wither the full upgrade or the plugin to patch your install.)
MT nofollow. Ditto. Well, if the bastards do get through my new barbwire, they won’t build any page rank. (comment spamers use your blog to build page rank in search engines, so that their sites get better placement–the nofollow plugin keep the search engines from following any links placed in comments, thus denying the spamers the rank.)
MT-Approval. Follow the instructions, rebuild everything. Check your Activity Log and watch the throttling begin. I choked 5 comments just after I clicked install and before I did my first test comment! Yes Virginia, it’s safe to turn moderation back on.
And now to sleep.
How about some HIËRONYMUS BOSCH action figures?
UPDATED: now with better prepositional phrases, improved linkage, and mo better character development.
Don’t Panic!
Fantastic Four.
Constantine.
Three trailers. Three upcoming movies. In honor of Dean’s birthday, the movie rant.
Go up to Apple’s trailer site. Count the movies. One month ago, it was damn near an empty page. Mind you these are promos, and some are for movies that aren’t even finished yet, like Sin City, and HHGG. Count all the comic book titles, count all the sequels, count all the kids books (after a 20 year dearth of kids movies) and mostly count all the remakes. Now go reread Asimov’s Foundation trilogy or Spengler, Toynebee or the Fall and Rise of the Roman Empire. Grab a historian and ask her about decadent imperial phases.
(if we survive the current shitstorm, this will era will be heralded as the age of kiddy movies, and they won’t be just talking about the LemonyHarryWonka movies either. Again, if the idiots don’t pull the apocalypse gambit on exit, and we have a future.)
Hollywood: we eat children, hell, we eat our own children, we do it in public–and we make you pay to watch.
Continue reading ‘going to hell’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAN!
(memo to Dean, you can talk louder then a whisper on your birthday)
Firefox builds, optimized for PowerPC 7450 (newer G4s) and OS X. I just grabbed the latest, and it’s a dream, fixing a few niggling annoyances from the “real” Firefox andf the first build of his I grabbed. Grab the ones from [Trunk/OS X] with the newest date possible, or grab his config and roll your own. Book mark his page and check back often…
UPDATED:
Walking a lot in cold weather reminds me of every broken bone in my foot. I feel each and every one of them, every fractured surface on them. I’ve also just checked an anatomy book and half the the bones that are hurting don’t exist. Interesting. I’m feeling pain, bone on bone scraping, and physical entities that don’t exist. This might be the “bone spurs” my mother has been complaining about for the last ten years. Or I might have joined her round the bend 
I did something incredibly stupid money wise yesterday, and I tried to correct it, I was reminded that I was told it couldn’t be returned. I’m mentioning it obtusely because I want to remind myself (yet another function of the blog) and not because I’m in a Woody Allen mood. But I did manage to do what my number one favorite symptom to hate of small business disease: I was penny wise and dollar foolish. So remember folks, step back from the problem and trake a deep breath, review all options–even the ones you threw out earlier–before you make a decision or drop the cash in the “no refunds or returns on closeout merchandise” bin.
There is at least one problem with the site’s new CSS. This was intentional, I wanted to see what it would do. I might fix it later. (I did, and I fixed a bunch of other errors I missed and it’s still not rendering right, much to my chagrin. I’ll try a few more things locally and then update when I have bandwidth. NEVER TRY TO UPDATE YOUR WEB SITE LAYOUT VIA A CELL PHONE!)
And it is snowing here again…
UPDATED: now with more vitriol…
Bush axes Hubble rescue mission.
“The paper reports that NASA has binned its plans to send a robot to service the telescope so that it can focus its resources on Bush’s Martian ambitions. Unnamed officials, also quoted in The Post, have confirmed that Congress will not approve funding for the mission, and that it does not appear on Bush’s 2006 fiscal plans.”
“Hubble could easily live well beyond 20 years, and furthermore, the National Academy committee stated that the future discoveries from Hubble over the next five years are every bit as bright as the discoveries we’ve seen in the past,” Steve Beckwith, head of the Space Telescope Science Institute, the body that manages Hubble. “I’m hoping that our lawmakers will see the value of Hubble and make it a priority in NASA’s budget,” he told the Washington Post.”
(the polite words I’m looking for here is MYOPIC LITTLE MINDED SELF AGGRANDIZING EGO STROKING MEGALOMANIACAL PARODY OF A BAD MOVIE EVIL VILLAN.)
Is Gonzales a lying dog lackey of the fascist oppressor?
Probably
Must be sunspots or something, I can’t seem to stay connected via bluetooth for more then 2 minutes. Maybe if the porta potty is unoccupied I’l be able to post something.
Just remember this: there are 7.5 million million disabled or dependents on the rolls, and 3 out of 10 20 year olds will become disabled….
“Advocates worry that some of the nation’s most vulnerable and needy people will be hurt by Bush’s plan to remake Social Security.
“Anything they do to the retiree formula will affect people with disabilities,” Ford said.
That’s what occurs in the main plan offered by Bush’s 2001 Social Security Commission charged with crafting a proposal for investment accounts. Promised disability benefits get reduced along with retiree benefits, in some cases up to 46 percent. The cuts were used to make the plan’s finances add up in the report.”
