The Kennedy Standard
If you have been following the Alito confirmation hearings, you are well aware that the Honorable Senator from Chappaquiddick has been badgering Alito over his affiliation with a Princeton University alumni club, saying his “affiliation with an organization that fought the admission of women into Princeton calls into question his appreciation for the need for full equality in this country.”
Interestingly, Teddy Chappaquiddick was a member of The Owl Club, an alumni club from Harvard that refused to admit women. In fact, they were banned from Harvard’s campus in 1984. Now, you would think that this fact alone would have woken …
How Washington Wastes Your Money
Congressional hearings and special prosecutors cost money… a lot of money. Just who do you think funds that bank account when they write the checks? You and me.
Now, don’t get me wrong. If something needs to be investigated, I think it should be. But the majority of these so-called inquiries are basically political witch hunts and lip service and a giant waste of our money.
That’s why I appreciate Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ statement on Larry King Live that we didn’t need a special prosecutor to look into the NSA wiretap fiasco. This was in response to a call for a …
Verse-O-Matic 2.1.0
Following the update of the blog to Wordpress 2.0, I have released an upgrade to the Verse-O-Matic Plugin. The new release, Verse-O-Matic 2.1.0, works with Wordpress 2.0, 1.5, and should work with 1.2.
This update includes a slightly more versatile alternate translation bar.
I am working on a couple of new features that will be released in version 3:
Admin panel management
Database storage instead of txt file
Addtional variables and toggles (stored in db)
Until then, check back for updates.
Wordpress 2.0 Upgrade
Well, I completed the upgrade to Wordpress 2.0 last night. Things went as smooth as can be expected. No problems with the database, and most of my modifications since the last install were built into the theme pages so no problems there.
I did run into an issue that some folks seem to have had as well and that was with the wp-settings.php file at line 38.
//if ( strpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'], ‘php.cgi’) == strlen($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) - 7 )
//‚ ‚ ‚ $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] = $_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'];
This line is a fix for php as cgi and doesn’t really effect me, so commenting it out fixes …
Date-O-Matic Javascript Day/Date Display
This is a very simple date script that I wrote years ago. I have used it in some form or another on just about every site that I have worked on. It is a nice, simple, client-side javascript to display the day and the date.
To use it, place the following in the of your html document:…
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