US gov wants data on Europe air passengers – Boing Boing The US government is pressuring 27 European Union nations to agree on new transatlantic air travel security measures which include armed guards on all flights from Europe to America operated by US airlines. Wait, why weren’t we doing this in the period immediately following 9/11, when we became a nation of bug-eyed fraidy cats willing to hand over the Bill of Rights to the nice strong people in charge if only they would keep us safe from Osama the Boogie Man? I admit that on September 15, approximately when…
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Okay, the new template is set up more or less how I want it… the center column is about 25px too narrow to accomodate the larger images I’ve favored recently, the sidebars will have to be moved farther to the sides to allow for this, and the font is pretty small and needs to be a bit larger. But I’m happy with the result for now. The funny thing about WordPress’s much vaunted flexibility and “one click template change” setup is it’s a bit techy getting the new templates downloaded into the right directory to begin with, and each template…
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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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One more tweak to the media template in ecto: need to use an entity for the ampersand in my character entity for tied eighth notes! And an ampersand, not a percent! Then click “APPLY.” Now listening:♫ The Police:Can’t Stand Losing You:Outlandos d’Amour (Remastered)[2:58] Technorati Tags: iTunes
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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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Inclusive Church blog: Our sound is our wound: audio of an address by the Revd Canon Lucy Winkett A long, but very interesting address from last fall’s Inclusive Church conference, “Drenched in Grace.” Best line: “We talk in the Church about modern music. We don’t mean modern music, we mean The Carpenters.”
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Doctor visits go online — chicagotribune.com By the time San Francisco consultant Meg Young got to Boston on a chilly night last winter, she was running a 102-degree fever. She considered going to the emergency room. Instead, she went online in her hotel room.The 40-year-old technology expert booked a visit with her primary-care doctor at Stanford University Hospital. After Young filled out a form and described her symptoms, he diagnosed a bacterial infection, prescribed an antibiotic from a drugstore near the hotel and suggested she get some rest. This article says that a couple of major health insurers are now…
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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…