“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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Yahooo! the Daily Herald published the article about Holy Moly today! They were really interested in the blog part of the site. I told him that it was really just because I couldn’t stand to work with Front Page for another moment, and switched the church site over to static pages, while leaving the blog piece working. I’m so happy! I hope the work is finally paying off. Will try to ping AKMA about this.
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Previously, I mentioned how irritated I was with clueless idiots from Myspace who hotlink who hotlink images from my site because they can’t be bothered to simply copy them and upload them to their own server. This can include images I made myself, and images I copied from somewhere else to illustrate something. Well, the first iteration of .htaccess needed some tweaking, and the original image was too small. After checking my stats tonight, I decided it was time to configure .htaccess to allow “trusted” hotlinks and then pull the trigger on the more obnoxious of the two images. I…
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Comedian and crackerjack political commentator Adam Felber sets the record straight: Fanatical Apathy – Corrections Dictatorships shelter terrorists, and feed resentment and radicalism, and seek weapons of mass destruction. Democracies replace resentment with hope, respect the rights of their citizens and their neighbors, and join the fight against terror. The President meant that democracies that do not elect terrorists will join the fight against terror. Those other nations are actually “terrocracies,†and shouldn’t be confused with actual “democracies.†This is also true of so-called democracies who elect dictators, which are actually “dictocracies,†or so-called democracies who elect communists (â€commocraciesâ€), anti-American…
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Caveat Lector ? Dramarama I am in contact with New Librarian’s parents, who are afraid to lay the appropriate smackdown because New Librarian “shuts down” when they try, since she “is threatened by them” and (eye-rolling alert, folks) “her self-esteem is shattered.” I shall endeavor to convince them that some tough love is in order. You spelled “uhhsteeem” wrong. 😉 But good luck with setting them straight. It sounds like you’ll need it. As you explained, the apple didn’t fall far from that tree.