Needed some spacing and line break tweaks to avoid invoking the Smiley of Head-Shaking Disbelief. Oh, and that reminds me, I should think about re-applying clickable smileys again. One quirk of iTunes and ecto and WMPtunelog now is that I have to stop and restart the music to get multiple music citations in the same post. I am one fierce tweaking twiddling diva. I am not yet worthy to be a Liberal Peace-Mongering Ninja, however. I was invited to take part in the event, but had that urgent family nosh event to attend. Now listening: ♫ KT Tunstall:Suddenly I See:…
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I just lost a post to ecto Hell; I did not save it first before attempting to publish, not realizing that my internet connection dropped. I’ve got 3 new stylesheets working – Talian3C (center content), Talian3CR (sidebars on right), with my hacked drop-shadows added to their stylesheets. Also fiddled with ecto trying to add a musical note character entity to the media template. Now listening:%#9835; Liz Phair:Polyester Bride:Whitechocolatespaceegg[4:05] Trying this again…
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I’m still battling the cold and cough, hoping to avoid a 5-month bout of bronchitis like last year… when it finally went away after I started taking anti-acid reflux drugs in addition to some prescription and over-the-counter medications for general cough and asthma. There’s some kind of connection. In about half an hour, we leave to go to lunch with the family, at a deli up in Highland Park. It’s bitterly cold, and with the wind-chill factor it’s about -20 degrees, something that’s guaranteed to get my cold-weather asthma to kick in (something else I have to avoid if I’m…
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Detail of the back of PB Katharine’s mitre and chausuble. Still testing ecto, I see that it’s adding an extra space after the IMG tag, as reported on the support forum. I may need to reinstall, as this may be a slightly older version.
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After reinstalling ecto, which I like to use for blog posts because it works on my WordPress and Blogspot blogs, it suddenly stopped working and threw some kind of error. Frustrated, I set it aside and blogged using the other interfaces. On a whim, I tried opening it today, and there it is, working again. It must have been some update or other that David ran on our server(s). I’ll see if I can get profiles built (again) for my various blogs. I like ecto because it has a number of little buttons for easily adding Amazon, YouTube, Flickr, and…
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1 hurt as backstage fire halts performance of ‘Peter Pan’ at Elgin high school — chicagotribune.com ELGIN – A small fire broke out Saturday at a high school dance performance of “Peter Pan” in Elgin, forcing the audience of about 300 to evacuate. One person was injured – nothing fatal or too serious, fortunately. The Tribune has amateur video that has a surreal sequence of various costumed cast members evacuating, some calmly, some in a panic. Tinkerbell trots down the sidewalk pretty briskly, and another character screams “It’s horrible!” as she races by the camera, but one of the mice…
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Case in point: Enthusiastic GOP teen to fight citations – Yahoo! News
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Yes, I laughed out loud at a joke based on a very unfunny conceit. Is that wrong and bad? The more I read about how horrified the Repunditans – those most ultra-strident media voices screaming from the rightmost lunatic fringes on the far side of Genghis Khan – are with McCain’s success, the more I wonder at their blindness. Because it’s becoming evident that the folks who’ve been voting for McCain are the moderates who’ve been whipped and beaten into silent acquiesence by the social conservatives of the Religious Right, and the independents who aren’t going for the Democrats. McCain…
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Utah has its own Lost Boys, and needs to address the problem before it gets even worse than it is now. Fortunately, there’s some group homes that help them with life-skills, because some of these kids have never thought for themselves, never had a bank account, never owned a car, never worked at a job for anyone where they got paid a normal wage, never voted, never thought about going to collage or having a career. The programs need more funding, of course, something that Utah’s not very good at unless it’s shamed into it by one of its not-that-rare progressive…
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Teresa‘s recent comments got me thinking about a better choice of gas station. Based on what I can figure out for the area, Marathon Oil is less evil than most. Business & Human Rights : Marathon Oil