Martin Sexton
Well, everyone’s been telling me about Martin Sexton for years. I finally got a disk, Black Sheep, and it’s stupendous. This is someone I’m going to have to see live! Hey folks, sorry I’m so slow. But...
View ArticleArguing for an upgrade
My team has a big architectural meeting coming up soon; it will be time to discuss what’s working, what’s not, what our system wants to be when it grows up. It’s a three-day, offsite meeting. We’re...
View ArticleDiabetes-Hypothyroidism Link
Go away. You probably don’t want to bother reading this. Still here, huh? Well, I just had a doctor’s visit, and I want to record what he told me before I forget it. If you care about the link between...
View ArticleNo WMDs — anyone still surprised?
The New York Times is reporting that the Bush Administration has called the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq over. “A White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, […] rejected the suggestion...
View Article“Insurgency?”
Blackfive quotes an entire Baltimore Sun article by Thomas Sowell about the media reporting on American casualties in Iraq but not enemy ones, then talks of Ted Kennedy, saying: Ask yourself: How can a...
View ArticleComment Moderation
I’m recently getting tons of comment spam. Until I get some time to investigate the techniques available in WordPress to get rid of it, I will have to moderate comments. I’ll try to look at this in one...
View ArticleUpgrading WordPress
To load the anti-comment-spam plugins, I needed a later version of WordPress (v1.2.2) than I was using (v1.0.2). Upgrading was relatively easy, although I did it entirely manually, by just adding the...
View ArticleReskinning
What took me so long? I’ve been using the default WordPress theme from day one. It’s not ugly, but it’s awful generic. Several times I’ve started developing my own look and feel, but each time I’ve...
View ArticleFwd: I love you
Scott Sauyet wrote: My five-year-old misses her Grandma, who’s in Florida for three long months. She wanted to write her a note. But rather than mailing it, she wanted to try email. As always, she...
View ArticleIraq Vote
Epic’s latest article says it exactly right: Without question, the Bush administration should not confuse Iraq’s election (nor the U.S. election) as an endorsement of its pre-emptive invasion of Iraq...
View ArticleCool hunting is real
It turns out that coolhunting is a real job. William Gibson’s marvelous book Pattern Recognition introduced Cayce Pollard, whose job it is to spot the coolest trends. I thought it was a wonderful...
View ArticleNorth Korea
I can’t wait for this one. How is the Bush Administration going to react to the news that North Korea now has announced that it has nuclear weapons? “But that’s against the non-proliferation treaty....
View ArticleUS Kidnap and Torture Policy
Today’s New York Times Op-Ed column by Bob Herbert is a clear-cut sign of what kind of government we are developing in the United States: In the fall of 2002 [Maher Arar], a Canadian citizen, suddenly...
View ArticleStylesheets Plugin
I’ve created my first WordPress plugin. It allows you to add your own stylesheets independent of the chosen theme. You can download it at http://scott.sauyet.com/php/wp-plugins/stylesheets/. Install is...
View ArticleMilestone?
Or just an inchpebble? Nice round number in the weight loss project. As you may know, I’m trying to lose a significant amount of weight. The doctor told me I should lose 75 pounds (2.2 pounds = 1 kg.)...
View ArticleMoral Dilemna
It’s fun to actually struggle with a moral debate involving the day’s news. Usually, I find myself quickly making decisions on most of the issues presented in the media. But a story on NPR’s All Things...
View ArticleJohn Paul
It’s quite the popular name, isn’t it? There’s the magician, John Paul Ziller, the musician, John Paul Jones, and the admiral of the same name. There’s the judge, John Paul Stevens, the pontif and his...
View ArticleCrazy Cyclists?
I’ve been teasing cyclist friends for years about their obsession with the weight of their equipment. Many serious competitive cyclists will spend a great deal extra money on a component that weighs...
View ArticleMagic Picnic Basket
The essay below is completely unfinished. But I don’t know when I will ever get back to it, so it’s time to post. I’ll note any updates at this location. I have a magic picnic basket. I know it is...
View ArticleToo much democracy?
Does the United States government think that too much democracy is a bad thing? It seems so. Two stories are bothering me. First, the Bush administration is reclassifying documents already made public....
View ArticleOverlabel with JQuery
I’ve been playing with JQuery lately, and when I found a need to use the wonderful little accessible compact form script by Mike Brittain, I thought I’d try to duplicate it with JQuery’s simpler...
View ArticleLimbaugh tells reporter to kill himself
(found at Media Matters) Rush Limbaugh: “If [New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin] really thinks that humanity is destroying the planet, humanity is destroying the climate, that human beings in their...
View ArticleNo Classes in Javascript
A colleague has published a series of posts (parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) detailing the evolution of a Javascript class. We discussed this at our recent JS Club meeting. I had several concerns there; some...
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