Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
John Ashcroft has resigned from Bush’s Cabinet. Now we just need to get rid of the DMCA, the Patriot Act, and a whole bunch of other useless things about this administration, and life would be good.
Update: Oh this gets better. On the day he resigns, he filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to strike down Oregon’s twice-voter-approved doctor-assisted suicide law. Full Story.
According to my spam folder today, I need a longer penis, pills to make it erect for 3 or 4 days, a great deal of prescription medications, a bunch of ink cartridges (and kits to refill them), a payday loan, health insurance, a Costa Rica home, a credit card merchant account, a new job and resume, and increased energy and endurance. Oh, and I need to confirm my eBay, Citibank and PayPal accounts, need to change my cursor, need to get a 3D aquarium screen saver, need to get a Macy’s, Toys R Us, and Victoria’s Secret gift card, I need to visit Erica’s WebCam, and need to do better with my search engine marketing.
But at least I don’t need terrorist-grade weapons like Barney does. Read on…
The one gripe new users of MovableType have had is that it doesn’t have a WYSIWYG editor for post creation. I, personally, don’t mind not having one, as I compose all my stuff offline using SharpMT, and like working with code. But many folks like to have the WYSIWYG editor, and many other blogging solutions have it. Heck, Six Apart, the company that makes MT, recently implemented a fancy editor for it’s TypePad hosted blogging solution, so why it’s not a part of MT is beyond me.
Thankfully, MT 3.0 has made it a bit easier to implement a WYSIWYG editor, thanks to its CSS interfaces, and Movalog, an indespensible site for MT hackers, has a great tutorial on how you can implement HTMLArea into your backend. It’s still a bit complicated, and SixApart should really make this far easier to do (or just make it part of the main MT install), but at least you can have one, if you so desire. It’s now on my To-Do list (which I really need to edit/update).
If I had a dog, this is the last thing I’d buy it. Why would I want to watch a dog lick itself all the time? Thanks Cheryl for the link.
Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked. Take this with a grain of salt, folks.
…would somebody want to charge a whale with attempted murder. Thanks Barney for the link.
Several hundred chickens are believed to have died after the trailers they were being transported in overturned following a traffic crash at the intersection of Highway 213 and Beavercreek Road in Oregon City. Two persons in a passenger vehicle were transported with minor injuries. Full Story. The story states that an estimated 400 chickens died in the crash and hundreds more were running loose on the highway. Many others remained in their crates. That’s a lot of poultry!
At least get your MS-DOS subsystem running MS-DOS 7.1. If you’re still running Windows 3.x, you really need the upgrade — just check out all these features versus DOS 6.x (which was Microsoft’s last official stand-alone DOS release — I’m pretty sure the DOS that comes with Windows 95 and higher is DOS 7.0).
The Florida Times-Union’s election day front page included a toll-free number to a non-partisan organization tracking the election. The number was wrong, though, and sent callers to a sex talk service. Full story. Link via Romensko.
I’m going to be in Sunriver late tonight. We’re completely restructuring our availability database here at the office for our reservation system and we have to change a pile of fields in the database, and rebuild the thing. And I have to rebuild after each of four different steps, and each rebuild takes about 40 minutes.
The office is buying us pizza today, that’s for sure. Blogging back to normal tomorrow after I recover from this mess.