This beta interface does, however. (It’s still got a lot of quirks, but it’s overdue as it is, so I’d rather have it quirky than keep it a ‘secret’ project.)

In the mean time, there are three blogs here:

• Mister T
• n1zyy (me!)
• Rusty (unused…)
• Andrew (yay! That makes 4!)

Feel free to poke around, and if you’re interested in signing up / resuming an old blog, contact me! (mwaggy via gmail.com)

I also find it interesting that he was a Presbyterian minister. And it’s kind of an example of what I always thought the ‘perfect’ implementation of religion would be: it really doesn’t matter that he’s of a different religion. He’s not trying to convert me to his religion, nor is he attacking mine. I’m not sure he ever even talked about religion in ‘religious terms,’ and yet I think he did a great job as a minister. He might not have done as well in today’s climate, though… From the linked article:

<blockquote>Whenever he was asked to castigate non-Christians or gays for their differing beliefs, he would instead face them and say, with sincerity, “God loves you just the way you are.”</blockquote>

His Wikipedia article mentions that the Westboro Baptist Church “protested Rogers’ teaching about tolerance and acceptance” at his funeral.

And there’s no evidence that he was in the Vietnam War. (In fact, it looks like there’s evidence that he was doing other things at the time.)

• The US Government is fighting to keep meatpackers from checking more meat for mad cow
  
• The US Government set up a news station in the Middle East, more or less for spewing our propaganda. So far, so good.
  • It turns out that it began airing terrorist rants against Jews
  • Why? Because no one running the station speaks Arabic.
• Where are our Arabic translators?
  • Discharged from the military because they’re gay

(Thanks to Rusty for a lot of the links.)

It’s like a bad dream, that also just doesn’t quite make sense. But then you wake up and realize it’s all real.

• Why am I only finding this article on news sites I’ve never heard of? (It’s on the White House’s site, so it’s real.)
• Assuming that there’s no wrongdoing here, why is this necessary? It sounds like it’s superceding another similar bill that requires Congressional oversight.
• Why has the White House declined to comment? That’s the part that scares me the most?

I think the most-recent-posts  plugin (?) is what I need. (There’s a link to an updated one.) It looks like it only gets titles, though, rather than displaying actual posts, which is what I need.  I’m pulling it out of this thread.

• Users with the font Myriad Pro Light installed will find that the headers look very, very nice. I’m not 100% sure how I came to have this font, as it’s most popular on Macs, but, for those who have it, it’s really, really nice. For everyone else, the font displays the way it normally does, as a typical Sans-Serif header.
• Users with Office 2007 will notice that the edit box uses the ‘Consolas’ font, a nice fixed-width font that looks modern. Again, if it’s not installed, you should fall back seamlessly to the default.
• I typically use Aarvark (Firefox extension) only for isolating page elements for printing. Tonight I found that it was quite handy in figuring out what was what in terms of page elements, although I think this feature is also in…
• The Web Developer extension for Firefox, which was also incredibly helpful in troubleshooting the layout, and in things like temporarily disabling the cache after weird problems with old stuff coming back from the cache.

(Unless we have root access to the database, in which case we could circumvent it, but not everyone has that luxury. )

I think categories is a permission-based thing. I’m not sure it’s the best way to split things up by user. There are a few other methods, I just need to spend more time experimenting with them.

Anyway this is largely a test to make sure I understand what is happening so far. I’m sure you all have enough practice ignoring me.