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 just bought this and now I must wait several days for the arrival. You must visit Manolo’s Shoe Blog to understand the super-fantastic fashion item that I await. Also it is the WordPress blog that Manolo is now writing and not Blogger so very much “kudos to Manolo” for making the fashion-forward leap of Internet savvy. You can find it and much more of great style and humor at Manolo Loves the Shoes! : CafePress.com and of course you must find the original love of the Manolo in the things he says of those things that are of the…
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Local NPR station WBEZ is having a spring pledge drive today, which is apparently no joke. Local “listener supported” rock station WXRT is also having a pledge drive. XRT’s pledge drive is definitely more entertaining, but I do hope that BEZ’s is successful. 😉
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Is this a cause for great joy? Are the three great religions united at last? Is peace about to break out in the Middle East? Well, no. International gay leaders are planning a 10-day WorldPride festival and parade in Jerusalem in August, saying they want to make a statement about tolerance and diversity in the Holy City, home to three great religious traditions. Now major leaders of the three faiths – Christianity, Judaism and Islam – are making a rare show of unity to try to stop the festival. They say the event would desecrate the city and convey the…
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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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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Eccleston quits Doctor Who role HUH? 1 episode aired, but he apparently fears being typecast. So just one series with Eccleston, and then yet another new Doctor. Huh.
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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…