The cop is under investigation for some lewd comments and posts he made on his site. The offending entries are no longer there, but Google’s cached them. Link via Waxy’s Links.
Month: December 2003
Pastry pranksters provide police ‘donut tree’
Just what every police officer wants: A tree that grows donuts. Or something like that…
Bend police issued an APB — an all-pastry bulletin — Tuesday for the holiday pranksters who secretly adorned the metal tree sculpture in front of their Eastside headquarters with dozens of edible examples of the stereotypical cuisine of choice for cops on the go: donuts.
The police have a good sense of humor about it, but did want to point out that “Whoever did this showed a total, flagrant disregard for one of the four major food groups.” Thanks Barney for the link.
Using Dada/Mojo Mail to send MovableType Entries Nightly (or how to ditch Bloglet)
Update: I’m bumping this back up to the top as I’ve updated my templates and this article in general pretty heavily. Be sure to check it out.
Note: To pull this off, you’ll have to invest $25. It’s worth it for great mailing list software, but if you’re a cheapskate, do not read past this point. Also note that I didn’t just conjure all this up after my surgery, it’s been done and ready to go for a while, I just got motivated to finish it up.
I’ve been a big fan of Mojo Mail (now called Dada Mail because somebody has too many lawyers and too much free time) for a long time. I originally set it up for my work site, and have always loved it.
I recently purchased (before I knew I needed surgery) the Pro version of the software which came with the Magic Book. The $25 Magic Book is the key to this — it’s loaded with tons of extra documentation, and it comes with a bunch of cool plugins. The one I like the most is an automated mailer that will send mailings at predefined intervals, pulling from Web pages, if need be. It’s called Beatitude.
I’ve been using Bloglet to send nightly mailings of the headlines on the site. Bloglet, while, simple, isn’t very flexible or powerful. So I thought, why couldn’t Beatitude be used to send off MovableType nightly entries?
As of three days ago, it is, in both a text and HTML formatted version. Sign up using the sign up form on the top right of this page, and read on below to see how I did this.
He’s going nuts down under
Ozguru doesn’t plan on posting for a few days after Christmas, as he’ll be away from his computer. So what’s he doing today (Christmas Eve in Australia)? He’s going on a marathon day today, posting a joke or an entry every 30 minutes, to hopefully keep us pacified until he gets back. But if you’re looking for Christmas jokes, just watch the front page for a while.
Thing may break for a bit
I’m working my way through my to-do list, and I’m going to work on restructuring the archives. After it’s all over, things should work fine, but until that point, just bear with me. Thanks 🙂
Update: I think I’ve got myself some decent URLs, now have a gigantic .htaccess file (both links in this entry should work, despite the different URLs), and have setup a far better structure here. One more thing to scratch off the to-do list.
How to find expensive stuff on Amazon
Just keep this wishlist bookmarked. Between the backhoe to the wine cellar, there’s some expensive stuff there.
How does a state solve its homeless problem?
It give its homeless bus tickets, and sends them to other states.
Satire site fools everybody, but not intentionally
I mean, come on, the site’s header says “Indiana’s first source for inaccurate news and commentary since 2003.” Did you really think they’d be the one to break a story? Apparently the folks at the San Diego Union-Tribune, did, as they ran this story in their sports section. The story goes on about how Purdue University recruited the wrong Jason Smith — instead of recruiting the 6’6″ athlete, they recruited the 5’5″, 128-pound nerd. The story made the national radio circuit (all claiming they knew exclusive information), and the Union-Tribune made the mistake of printing it. Meanwhile, the Hoosier Gazette is laughing at everybody.
MovableType 2.65 released, 3.0 announced
Finally there is some official news of some sort. MovableType 2.65 has been released. It’s mostly a security release, but with it there is also an Atom feed template (with new tags for that particular template). Looks like they read my mind yesterday re: the Atom feed.
They also announced the forthcoming 3.0, which includes some nice features (on top of being free):
- Comment registration. As a response to both comment spam and to the increased usage of Movable Type on large community sites, we’ll be adding the option to restrict comments to registered users.
- Improved comment and TrackBack management features.
- New API hooks for plugin developers. Plugins will now be able to hook into many more pieces of Movable Type, including adding callbacks for saving and removing objects, building application methods with integration into the UI, and hooking into the publishing process. This opens up possibilities for plugins to add even more advanced functionality than they’re able to do now.
- User interface rebuilt using CSS. We’ve seen with TypePad that a CSS-based interface gives users very fast application response times, and gives us a flexible interface for making application-wide changes, and we want to give this same speed and flexibility to Movable Type users.
- Support for the Atom API. We’ve already added Atom syndication feed support in version 2.65 of Movable Type, and we’ll be adding publishing support for the API in 3.0.
They plan to announce more features, but aren’t ready to yet.
Which image gets you the most excited?
I think my putter has already voted here. Thanks to Shasta Bob for the pics.