All three detectives in the Sean Bell killing have been found not guilty. This may have been the “correct legal outcome” from the trial, but Sean Bell was killed and that should have consequences.
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Looks like Wesley Snipes is going to jail. Honestly, he should have known better and the civil proceedings have yet to be decided. Wonder how much of an example he’ll be made of in a civil trial?
His two co-defendants didn’t do so well either. One was sentenced to 10 years, the other 4 and half years. What I don’t understand is this: no one likes to pay taxes, period. The idea of not paying taxes for some pseudo legal rational is ridiculous.
There are lots of smart people out there and some of them actually practice law. If it were that easy then everyone would do it.
Either that, or sell books and make money off of the people who buy into this nonsense.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=akaD9v460yI
The movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is not getting good reviews. Apparently it’s your basic hatchet job on science.
See this review from the New York Times. With out exception, all the reviews I’ve seen (maybe I’m not reading the “right” web pages) condemn the movie.
Is it possible that this is a joke? Like the movie “This is Spinal Tap”? It’s Ben Stein after all. There is no chance I will go and see this movie in a theater but it sounds like the silly material is set to “Eleven”.
In a stunning admission to the obvious, Isiah Thomas is out. Maybe the Knicks can show up next season and actually play.
Over at downloadsquad.com they talked about the HydraBrowser and how it may go too far with features.
It looks like Internet Explorer with enough add ons to make it “special”. It was special alright; after I ran it it wanted a user ID and password. I canceled that (I just wanted to see the web) and entered a cnn.com as the URL.
Nothing. No error message, nada.
Control Panel -> Uninstall Software -> Hydra Setup (publisher is listed as Microsoft?) and good bye. Back to Firefox for me. Install to uninstall in less that 10 minutes. I’m sure if it were some other software I’d spend some time with it, but it’s a web browser. How hard should it be?
Update: After the author left some good feedback below, I installed v1.07 on my laptop. It’s not bad and I’m listening to radio via Hydra as I update this. The browser goes for the Office 2007 look and the layout is not bad.
My laptop and PC both have a 16:10 aspect ratio and that permits Hydra to display the web page well and still leave room for the content. The RSS reader looks familiar; I’m a huge Google Reader fan so I probably wont be using that feature. The integration is interesting but the overall experience feels like the product is still developing.
That’s not a bad thing at all. My complaint originally was that without setting up an Admin user, you could not even use the browser. The author’s v1.07 which I’ve just installed, plainly says if you don’t create an account you can still use the guest access. That’s good responsiveness to a “feature request” which was not even in his forum.
I’ll continue to kick the tires some more. I doubt I’ll leave Firefox 2.x anytime soon (Firefox 3 beta 5 annoys me; don’t know why but it does) but I’m glad to see someone is working on another alternative outside of Opera and Firefox.
I have a few blog entries about Gundam episodes and Gunpla and I often put up graphics either of the model I’m assembling or image from the anime I am watching.
This is the Internet and I don’t mind people copying the images onto their website. I mean, why would I? Some of the images aren’t mine, like the Ubuntu logo. if I get an e-mail from Sunrise about a Gundam 00 image, I’d be shocked and flattered.
But I do not like hotlinking and had been blacklisting new URLs on a regular basis. Hotlinking is when some individual on the Internet decides he likes something on my website, so he loads it directly from my server onto his page.
Myspace users do that a lot.
So rather than continue looking at my logs and zapping offenders one at a time, I finally put in the following into my .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://blog.dembowski.net/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.dembowski.net/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*.google..*/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*.yahoo..*/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*.msn..*/ [NC]
RewriteRule .*.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png)$ - [F,NC]
This lets search engines that I like get copies of the images (I run a web server on the Internet, I want people to find me). The second line lets the web server load images if there is no referer.
If you try to load an images onto your website from my web server, and you are not on the approved list, then the image will not load. I thought about putting in a “Don’t hotlink you loser” image but why bother? I just want hotlink to my website to stop.
CNN has this article about an illegal immigrant who married someone who’s legally in the U.S. but had to go back to Mexico. This seperated the husband from his wife; it’s a sad story and shows some of the real problems that illegal immigrants face.
But what struck me as I read the article was the sidebar advertisement. Ads on websites typically work like this: the advertisement will match up the content. That’s the idea at least.
Here is a picture of the website from my computer.
Note the sad picture of the husband crying (nice journalism CNN, you really raised the standard on a serious topic).
Now look at the sidebar ad. I guess the terms “husband”, “wife”, and “love” matched the ad up to the article. At least to another computer.
So far so good. Once I stopped using version 2.3.3 and switched to 2.5 I got the hang of the new admin interface.
The old Admin-SSL plugin stopped working because the cookie code was from the old wp-includes/pluggable.php. The cookies are different so the old plugin failed.
There is a replacement but it does not set the cookies for use with SSL pages only, which was a huge part of the old plugin. I’m going to see if I can get the old one working with the new auth cookie code. My PHP is horrible so I’m not feeling too optimistic.
Mostly WordPress 2.5 worked right out of the box for me. Since I’m using the translation plugin, I get lots of Mysql database timeouts. With 2.3.x I implemented this fix and the translation pages have no issues with database timeouts. The fix has been updated for 2.5 so my database is not complaining anymore.
Thanks to 2.5 I was able to get rid of 2 fix plugins, Optimal Titles and Full Feed. Both are no longer needed. I did modify Bad Behavior slightly and added the Remove Max Width plugin but that’s mostly it.
This is a useful Q&A for common WordPress 2.5 questions.
Image upload does not work on my Ubuntu 7.10 laptop and WordPress 2.5. I’ll check using my Vista box. I’ll also setup a new scratch blog and see if it’s some setting or plugin I’m using. The 1.5 development version of Simple Tags seems to work with 2.5 now.
