Almost done with Gus’ thinly veiled autobiography, Pirates of Pensacola. It’s a good fun read, and every now and then I run across a little detail that I know is re-worked from Gus’ recent adventures chasing a certain blubbery bastard across the lower Caribbean. However, the work stands on its own merit. Anyone with a little pirate in them will enjoy this book. While goofing around reading Nelson’s blarg and wondering where in the world Stupid George has gotten to, I ran across this interesting BlogPulse page for “Pirates of Pensacola.” Most of the entries are from other shipmates’ blogs,…
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Aw, I thought it would turn out to be a cute li’l car you could drive around real fast and pull capers with. Instead, it’s a search server that companies can use to speed things up for users trying to find stuff on their corporate website, which is packed so full of useless garbage that nobody can find what they want on it. A steal at only $2,995. Low miles, runs great. 1 year bumper-to-bumper warranty. Drive it home today (wheels sold separately).
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Jay Allen, of MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse fame, generously recommends Brad Choate's Spam Lookup as a more comprehensive solution to webspam/commentspam/trackspam. The nightly build (which fixes a bug in beta 2) is here. So, in short, for spamkilling purposes on the new and improved MT3.16 version of the blog, I think I'd like to give "Spam Lookup" a whirl. I like MT-Blacklist, but it's kind of slow, and the cross-blog functionality alone makes it possible for me to open up the 'Quicklinks' sideblog comments. Plus… hey, I think I could eventually bring the Holy Moly blog under its wing, too. Hmm.…
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Even our dull corporate buildings look almost pretty this time of year. The crabapples and redbuds are in bloom all along the parkways, and the air smells sweet (even for this area, which often smells faintly of jet fuel owing to our location right under the approach/takeoff path for O’Hare. The whole area is greening up, and the landscape companies are out in force. You can tell that spring has arrived when the yard waste bags burst into bloom in all their brown-paper glory along the curbs on Garbage Day. I have next week off – I threw the week…
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There’s smoke in the air; it looks almost white-ish; Papal expectations, everybody’s watching for you The populi in St Peter’s Square, they all seem to know you The cardinals act like you’re all infallible now Bennie the Sixteenth, the new Pope in Rome Everybody venerates you, ma illegitimi non carborundum You look in the cameras; the choir begins to sing Hopeful Roman antics, and you’re the guy in charge But after awhile, you’re fidgetin’ in your cassock It’s not the damn tailor’s fault you’re a medium-large Bennie the Sixteenth, the new Pope in Rome They all venerate you, ma illegitimi…
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David, the sneaky sneakster, upgraded the beta blog to MT3.16, and I'm at the "tweaking templates to look right with the new stylesheet" stage. Still some archive templates to be fixed so they display the new banner image and colors. I will be going through all the templates looking for inconsistencies that may be lurking there from my old installation, but I'm pleased that the latest version is a new commitment to quality (and bugfixes). Via About Six Apart – Mena's Corner UPDATE: as previously stated, I've got some template tweaks to do. And the cool crap is getting cut…
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Niall Kennedy’s Weblog: Movable Type 3.16 coming Monday Okay, not as bad as I first thought. I think we continue getting my MT3.15 installation working properly before we worry about MT3.16. That is all. As you were.
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Your Linguistic Profile: 70% General American English 15% Yankee 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? Kind of reminds me of some of the stuff in How To Talk American except… not as funny as in that book. I’m kind of intrigued by the fact that I speak 10% Upper Midwestern – that’s probably due to the fact that I now say “soda” instead of “pop” as I once did. Via AKMA
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Chicago Tribune | Iraq bomb takes `angel’ of mercy There was also an NPR story on Marla – she was interviewed a few years ago and you can hear her talk about her work. She was a relative unknown, but I feel her loss – I admire people who can really put their money where their mouth is, and she ran her charity on her own meagre savings until she managed to bully and embarass our government and military to take notice, step up, and “do the right thing.” She basically got Congress to fund aid and medical care for…
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It’s a process. David has installed MT3.15 and with his help I’ve got a beta site working, more or less. I haven’t decided if I’ll go to a radical style re-design or not. He also installed BookqueueToo and that seems to be working, finally. The stumbling block with that was not only did I need to request a new web services subscription ID from Amazon, I also had to go in and change the Amazon associates ID, both of which are configured via different screens. And cleverly, the BookQueueToo developer had substituted his own associates ID as the default. But…