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Politics: Obama's Father's Day Speech I love that Obama is willing to say these things to a black audience. But it applies to all of us, black or white, father or mother. ( Jun 16 2008, 09:30:09 AM ) Politics Permalink
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( Mar 18 2008, 09:04:49 AM ) Entertainment Permalink
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Pardon the mess and random updates. I went into the database last night and did a major purge of spam comments as I believe they were the reason for Roller's instability on Brainopolis: there were nearly 600,000 comments, 99.999% of which I'm sure were spam. In the process all my old posts got their "publish time" automatically set to the current time by mysql! Unfortunately the Edit Weblog interface doesn't let me type in the pub time directly, I've got to use a nifty popup calendar and I'm getting carpal tunnel resetting the entries. The rest of the entries will have to wait until I get direct access to the db again (tonight) or I get direct access to the jsp code and I can make the date field directly editable (enabled=true?) (tonight). ( Mar 14 2008, 08:15:47 AM ) Technology Permalink
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MyMiniCity Matt Webb introduced me to MyMiniCity. I really don't know anything about it yet, except that when you visit St. Lance the population will grow.
2/21/08: once you reach 50 population you get to the industry stage.
3/24/08: More Hits?
3/26: iframing the myminicity client.swf did not generate a boatload of hits.
( Jan 29 2008, 10:53:58 AM ) Technology Permalink
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Well, A List Apart has definately set themselves apart this week. I cannot begin to describe how surprised and disgusted I am by this, so I'm glad Shelley says it much better than I ever could:

I was astonished to read the A List Apart article Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 and even more astonished to read compliance with the message from Eric Meyer, Molly Holzschlag, and the WaSP organization.[BurningBird]

( Jan 23 2008, 08:30:34 AM ) Technology Permalink
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Thursday January 10, 2008

The Pathology Of The Politics Of Fear At least that's how I first mis-read the title of The psychology of the politics of fear. ( Jan 10 2008, 08:22:06 AM ) Entertainment Permalink
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I Am A Hippy
You are a Hippie

You are a total hippie. While you may not wear birks or smell of incense, you have the soul of a hippie.
You don't trust authority, and you do as you please. You're willing to take a stand, even when what you believe isn't popular.

You like to experiment with ideas, lifestyles, and different subcultures.
You always gravitate toward what's radical and subversive. Normal, mainstream culture doesn't really resonate with you.
Are You a Hippie? ( Jan 10 2008, 08:16:47 AM ) Entertainment Permalink
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Wednesday December 19, 2007

What's up in Washington? I subscribe to a feed from WashingtonWatch.com, and this morning I see a bunch of weird activity. Does anyone know the background on this set of recent bills? There seems to be a pattern, but the actual text of the bills haven't made it up onto the web yet.

H.R. 4755 To suspend temporarily the duty on 1-(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidin-2-yl)-3-Y2-(dimethylcarbamoyl)phen lsufamoyl urea

H.R. 4756 To suspend temporarily the duty on 4,4'-butylidenebisY2-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-5-methylphenol

H.R. 4757 To suspend temporarily the duty on 2,2'-methylenebisY6-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-4-phenol

H.R. 4758 To suspend temporarily the duty on Bis(2,3-dibromopropyl ether) of Tetrabromobisphenol A

H.R. 4759 To suspend temporarily the duty on 2,2'(2-Methylpropylidene) bis(4,6-dimethylphenol)

H.R. 4760 To suspend temporarily the duty on 2,5-Bis(1,1-dimethylpropyl)-1,4-benzenediol

H.R. 4761 To suspend temporarily the duty on 4,4'-ThiobisY2-(1,1-di-methylethyl)-5-methyl-phenol?

H.R. 4762 To extend the temporary suspension of duty on self contained, carafe-less automatic drip coffeemaker with electronic clock

H.R. 4763 To extend the temporary suspension of duty on under the counter mounting electric can openers

H.R. 4764 To extend the temporary suspension of duty on self contained, carafe-less automatic drip coffeemaker

H.R. 4765 To extend the temporary suspension of duty on open top, electric indoor grills

H.R. 4766 To extend the temporary suspension of duty on electric juice extractors

H.R. 4767 To extend the temporary suspension of duty on electric juice extractors

H.R. 4768 To extend the temporary suspension of duty on sandwich toaster grills

H.R. 4769 To extend the temporary suspension of duty on ice shavers

H.R. 4770 To extend the temporary suspension of duty on combination single slot toaster and toaster ovens

H.R. 4771 To extend the temporary suspension of duty on electric knives

H.R. 4772 To extend the temporary suspension of duty on handheld electric can openers

I didn't catch the initial temporary suspension of these duties, what the hell was that about? ( Dec 19 2007, 08:59:50 AM ) Politics Permalink
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