It’s coming: MT3.1.whatever we’re up to now. David will act as in-house geek as usual. So I’m gathering links, because of course successfully installing the upgrade (after suitable backups) is only the beginning. Then it’ll be the endless tweaking of the style sheets, with probably some major overhaulage in the look of things. And that’s… ok. Upgrading MT Learning Movable Type: Colors – Background, Banner, Headline, and Font Ibid: Background Patterns Ibid: Backing Up Your Blog Ibid: Using Typekey Styles with MT Ibid: Setting Up Typekey Authentication Visibone: Color Lab (pick colors AND see if they play well together MovableStyle.comStyleMonkey…
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While reading the excellent journal of ginmar, I ran across this item: CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — Gov. Rod Blagojevich approved an emergency rule Friday requiring pharmacies to fill birth control prescriptions quickly after a Chicago pharmacist refused to fill an order because of moral opposition to the drug. … The Chicago pharmacist was not the first to attract attention for refusing to fill a birth control prescription. In February, a judge recommended that a Roman Catholic pharmacist in Wisconsin be reprimanded and required to attend ethics classes after the pharmacist blocked a woman’s attempt to fill a prescription for birth…
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Yeah, so I don’t have a “Beerhunter” category, and besides the kind of beer we like to bring home is pretty sustaining stuff, if not actually chewy. Tonight’s tipple of choice is a new favorite: Young’s Double Chocolate Stout. We found it a couple of weeks ago at the local Binny’s and picked it up on a whim – turns out to be one of our better impulse buys, because at the same time we bought other Young’s products: Waggledance and Oatmeal Stout. From this experience we’ve added a new favorite brewer: Young’s makes good stuff, Maynard. The unique thing…
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I noticed a lot of visitors are arriving here looking for information on adding drop shadows to images. As I flailed helplessly at this for a long time before finally settling on a simple method, I thought I’d add a little documentation. The previous entry I had on this was a little sketchy in that department. Also, some discussion popped up regarding text wrap at the excellent Learning Moveable Type site, so I thought I would elaborate on my method for handling images. First off, you need to go to A List Apart and read Sergio Villarreal’s excellent tutorial. Copy…
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This was who Terri Schiavo was 15 years ago or more: vibrant, pretty, bright. She was a real knockout, in fact. No wonder her husband fell in love witih her at first sight and fought so hard for her care in the first few years after her collapse, coma, and entry into a persistent vegetative state. He did everything he could to bring her back, but after several years he came to accept what the doctors told him as far back as 1994: her cerebral cortex was “all but gone.” 11 years ago. “All but gone.” Michael and the doctors…
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The recaplet for last night’s AWESOME double episode: Wait, am I high, or did that really happen? Okay, this two-hour extravaganza starts out in South Africa, where Ray and Deana gut out a Fast Forward and Rob and Amber chase it in vain, putting the latter in the back of the pack temporarily. A Detour sends a couple of teams through a fairly cushy scavenger hunt and sends the rest into a cave, where Gretchen manages to fall and cut her head. And as head wounds do, it bleeds a lot, which is pretty scary. Ray and Deana win that…
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Okay, I’ve uploaded some more Chicago Botanic Gardens pictures and jiggered things around. The main albums page is here, and the newest album is “Spring 2005.” It was a nice day that day, if a little cold, and windy on the southern exposures (Ooh! my Aunt Fanny!). Today, though, was a really nice, actually quite warm day. The tulips are coming up in the front yard, I can hardly believe it but it’s true. And only last week the whiskey barrel was full of ice. I’ll be doing more gardening this year than I did last year, that’s for sure.…
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The latest bizarre, yet strangely compelling must-have item chronicled at Boingboing: Pet pillows made from the fur of your very own very dead pet! Well, this option is no longer open to us. Which is an extremely good thing. Besides which, the cleaning ladies would be mystified by the extremely quiet, tidy, and square kitty on the couch.
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Oh boy! Tonight I get to go to traffic school! I’m going to learn how to traffic! For four whole hours! Oh boy oh boy! Dear all 3 of you who continue to read this blog in spite of incessant posts about TAR and Holy Moly: today is a special day. Today I actually have something different to blather about. They say that crime does not pay. They don’t say that crime actually turns out to be a major pain in the ass and an inconvenience, and the out of pocket expenses can be considerable. Some time ago now –…
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Ugh, this sign looks terrible. I took a picture of it so that I’d have an image handy on my phone to show to a signmaking place near us. We’ve changed service times so many times we just started writing it on vinyl tape with magic markers. There’s no way we can afford to get the entire sign replaced… and now the tape is totally peeling off. Lovely. Needless to say, I’ll be looking into getting either vinyl magnetic labels with the summer and winter service times, or maybe stick-on slides.