BERLIN (Reuters) – A snarling Staffordshire terrier trapped a German railway worker at his post for hours and even bit through metal trying to elude capture, police say. We’re thinking about getting a dog next spring. Not this kind of dog, I’m thinking.
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It seems that David is now at stage 3 with his WordPress blog: he’s created a button. As in “cool crap to stick on the sidewall.”
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Need to verify if I have Save Href installed per Al-Muhajabah’s Movable Type Tips’ recommendation. I quote a LOT of URLs that have ampersands, and although I tried to set up something to fix it, it doesn’t seem to be working. Nowhere close to validating. However, Elise’s previous advice on the topic is also helpful: don’t get too hung up on having to have every page validate.
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Get Fuzzy has been running a hilarious “Dull Computer Customer Support” storyline starting with the linked strip. Apparently, all the outsourcing talk is a big hoax; it’s just the call center folks improving their phone stats in various creative ways. David will love today’s excuse, but start at the beginning to catch the “excellent Simpsons” reference.
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Anyway, we talked a lot about gadgets, blogs and Creative Commons. I got him to agree that it would make sense to put a Creative Commons license on his site so that people could use pictures of products and clips of his text to review products. I think that his stuff is PERFECT for blogs. I hope no one will be busting down my door and confiscating anything just because I thought those ducks were so damn kawai (cute) a few months back. Not to mention all the other fun things encountered at Dynamism and other sites that were just…
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Apparently, W. isn’t conservative enough for some. And this is a scary thought: 5 reasons Bush isn’t quiiiiite conservative enough for some people (admittely, he is more conservative than his Poppy was, thus more satisfactory to the hardline).
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Good… GOD! There was much gnashing of teeth over center content that was playing “tag” and “hide ‘n seek” with the side columns on the 3-legged blog today. Lots of futzing and saving of various close-but-not-quite stylesheets later, I finally tracked down the problem. It was the italics in the blockquotes. No matter what values I set for the various columns, the italics were just enough to throw it all into confusion. End result: no more italics in blockquotes. So then what do I do? Download Firefox and muck about a bit more. Huh. Not bad – it works in…
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MIAMI, July 27 – Almost all the electronic records from the first widespread use of touch-screen voting in Miami-Dade County have been lost, stoking concerns that the machines are unreliable as the presidential election draws near. Oh, here we go again. And guess what? It wasn’t made public until a citizens’ group requested audit data for the 2002 election. Turns out election officials knew something went wrong in spring 2003, but didn’t publicly acnknowledge a “malfunction” until a year later. Good for the citizens’ group for bringing this to light, and good for everyone that’s been hammering on this issue…
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Now this is a punishing leg. Start with 20 hours on a bus (oy), and follow it with flying all the way from South America to Russia. Then choose between being pelted with hockey pucks and downing a shot, and just when you think you can’t get any queasier, you get to choose a member of your team to eat two pounds of caviar — an item intended to be ingested by the teaspoon. What begins as bus-station jostling over some very bizarre notions of racing (“Can we agree that you won’t try to get ahead of me?” “Uhh…”) matures…
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But running the website soon became a dominant activity in his day, and on June 28, Billmon announced: “Last call.” Whiskey Bar would no longer accept comments. “You’ve only got so many hours in the day, and like most bloggers, I’ve got a full-time day job, and something had to give,” Billmon said. “In the end, monitoring comments on my blog was becoming a progressively larger part of my blogging time, and I just got to the point where I wasn’t able to keep up with it.” It’s always a shame when a well-written, popular blog stops taking comments, or…