“Ow! Ow! YEEEOW! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYOWTCH!!” Yes, I did indeed vocalise in this very vulgar manner tonight. I was quite overcome with pain. My furry human was busying himself with doing something about the monkey chow they eat at night, and I was in my usual position right at his feet. Well, I was only offering to take care of any little fishy tidbits that happened to find their way to the floor. And then he stepped back and put his big monkey food down HARD, RIGHT on my little paw, and it HURT. I screamed loudly and ran away. My monkeywoman…
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Right, enough incessant style-twitching and markup-tweaking for a while. Now for a few things that I’ve been turning over in my mind lately, kind of like when you’re out back digging in the garden in early spring, and you turn over a forkful of earth and find a lot of worms and goo. Thursday night, I stopped off at a nearby mega-supermarket to pick up a few items for dinner. I’m always on the lookout for odd experiences there ever since the Screaming Child incident, and generally I am rewarded with minor annoyances; they have far more “scan your own…
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David, on Day One of our last trip to Maui. Really, this is more of a test post, I’m checking out ecto, and the iTunes plugin associated with it. I’ve managed to get it working and it appears to be mostly harmless. There’s a support forum, Time for the acid test. I may be cracking open a beer in a second, but will there be much joy? or no joy? Ledward Kaapana:Whee Ha Swing:Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters[2:37] Technorati Tags: iTunes, plugins, Maui
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Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Bush told Blair we’re going to war, memo reveals Tony Blair told President George Bush that he was “solidly” behind US plans to invade Iraq before he sought advice about the invasion’s legality and despite the absence of a second UN resolution, according to a new account of the build-up to the war published today. A memo of a two-hour meeting between the two leaders at the White House on January 31 2003 – nearly two months before the invasion – reveals that Mr Bush made it clear the US intended to invade…
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IMproPRieTies: reax Of all the tedious media coverage of reaction to the SOTU I saw, I most respected Renee Montagne’s visit to three New Orleansians in a FEMA trailer in the darkened eastern sector of the city. These people watching the Bone tossed from the House, sailing through the deluxe mediascape, landing with an thud in that dark abandoned wreck of the town. Hearing the President ignore not just the city, but his federal administration’s obscene failure to address the city, and now the failure to address that obscene failure, which is apparently the only way Mr. Bush knows how…
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…all the really interesting news items begin to appear. BBC NEWS | Americas | US military plans for ‘long war’ The US Defence Department has released a long-awaited report on how the US military will organise and equip itself in the face of “new and elusive foes”. The quadrennial defence review will be presented to the US Congress next week. The document opens with the words: “The United States is engaged in what will be a long war.” It describes what the US military must do to defeat current and future enemies – flagged as “rogue powers, terrorist networks and…
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Lobbying Colors GOP Leadership Contest Boehner, the guy who handed out checks on the House floor from tobacco concerns, has just been elected Majority Leader. A fair chunk of his change was raised from Abramoff-linked Indian tribes. Not that it’s wrong that they’re Indians, it’s that they were working with Abramoff. “We will want people who are clean running the House,” said Rep. Melissa Hart (R-Pa.), a Boehner supporter. So do we, Melissa. So we’ll just have to elect them. Do these people not get it? Do they not realize that the lobbying scandal taints everyone in their leadership? I…
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You now, I heard Our Leader say this the other night, but due to an unfortunate overenthusiasm for Adam Felber’s SOTU Drinking Game, it just skidded on by: “Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos. Human life is a gift from our Creator — and that gift should never be discarded, devalued or put up for sale.” Guess there’s no tax credit for hybrid humans, only hybrid cars. Damn.…
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Okay, things done: Removed cruft from side columns Signed up for del.icio.us Signed up for Feedburner Created new feed, David redirected old feeds Tinkered with Quicklinks, got MTAmazon partly working Tinkered with stylesheet, fiddled with tags/categories footer Things left undone: Get MTAmazon fully working in Quickbooks Add del.icio.us links on right column Look for more old cruft to delete Update “About” page Go through Bookqueue, cycle books around Learn more about adding music links via del.icio.us iTunes: Would like to blog playlists Find more Hawaiian slack-key for iPod Start using the rating system more Tasks: Pet-related chores >^t^ Try to…
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Chicago Tribune | At least 1 engine was working Jeez, I can’t even imagine the horror of this moment.