Mostly about my amusement
I guess the Governor of NY, Eliot Spitzer, felt that Jim McGreevey got all the good press.
Gothamist: Governor Spitzer Involved with Prostitution Ring; Will Spitzer Resign?
Never a dull moment! With his high profile career, marriage, and three daughters, when did he find the time?
This will no doubt become a law, at least in Kentucky: Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
I saw this while wasting time on Reddit: “They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.” Microsoft really did bork the release of Vista but so what? For mass consumers they are the only game in town. They can suck as much as they want.
I keep a SVN based copy of the new WordPress 2.5-beta1 for playing with. I’m doing this because at sometime the version I’m running 2.3.x might not be supported for patches. Going from 2.2 to 2.3 was a no brainer, tags are a huge difference. 2.5 might not get me to jump for a while.
On the outside I can’t see much reason for not converting. Some of my plugins don’t work but that ought to be resolved by the time 2.5 is released. If the performance is improved then that’s a good reason right there.
What will get me to hold off is the little things. I dislike the new interface. The 2.3.x shows it’s age meaning that it is well thought out and is missing some pet peeves from 1.5 or 2.0. Version 2.5 feels like they are trying to get to “Web 2.0” and are not making it. The organization is odd after using WordPress for a couple of years. The widget interface is downright counter intuitive for me.
I’ll keep using 2.3.x for a while and just see how 2.5 turns out.
According to BBC news, this guy needs to pay his wife his promised dowry.
It’s 124,000 roses.
His flat got confiscated until he coughs up the roses. He should see if he can negotiate, oh like, do something else instead.
Like writing on a black board 2,000 times:
“I will not be cheap to my wife.
I will not be cheap to my wife.
I will not be cheap to my wife…”
He should not have ticked her off, the law is on her side.
Just wow. If some people on the street were shouting at you and had guns, and did not claim they were Police, what would the likely outcome be?
I caught a bug or stomach virus this week. This morning when I got up to wake the kids, I got taken over by nausea. Nice post I know but bear with me for a moment.
My son goes to the bathroom and says
“Daddy, you should throw up. You’ll feel better if you do.”
Medical advise from a 6 year old. I didn’t hurl but I did call in sick; tummy pains are one thing but 90 minutes to the office could go really bad.
I don’t know anything about this movie really, other than if I ever see it, it will be only when it hits cable. I’ve just looked over the trailer and the movie web site looks just fancy enough to not be too slick.
The Wikipedia page says the main character discovers a lost civilization. Can you call a civilization lost when the movie takes place in 10,000 BC?
It looks like it will be good escapism fun. I can’t wait for all the peopl who will insist “That did not happen! The dates are wrong!”. Independence Day was another Roland Emmerich flick and everyone liked that one. The trailer looks like they got the elements for a fun movie.
But quickly looking over the cast I can make one statement:
If you are going to make a movie called 10,000 B.C. then there ought to be a law saying that Raquel Welch MUST appear in at least a cameo.
I was hoping that Senator Clinton would somehow be able to out-hope Senator Obama but her getting angry like this is just another coffin nail in her campaign.
I did not really mean to upgrade my home server today, it just worked out that way.
Weeks ago I cleaned up my basement computer room and Alek had dropped off an old PC for my use. It is a dual Pentium III 800 MHz machine with 700 odd megabytes of RAM. It does not work well with my old WinTV PVR-350, Windows Media Center Edition 2005, and can’t play most AVI or MPEG files.
My server is a 3GHz P4 with 1 GB of RAM and a okay Geforce 5600 FX in it. So I figured I’d swap the drives and just use the server as a workstation and vice versa. Just to be on the safe side I moved my blog to the backup server on my VPS.
The server hard disk would not boot on the PIII box. The initrd image did not have the drivers for the ide system in the new box. Getting the initrd updated would have required the openSUSE 10.1 which I could not find.
I did have a recently burned openSUSE 10.3 DVD lying around so after a couple of hours I was able to get my server working by upgrading from 10.1 to 10.3. The updated 10.3 YaST is faster than before and I’m going to start using zypper to keep my system up to date.
Once I get the system to a point where I am comfortable then I’ll move the blog back to my basement.
