Alan Kellog isn’t too impressed with WordPress: I say the Hell with it. The documentation is written by people with something close to Aspergers Syndrome, with no consideration for people who have no background in coding, scripting, or any of that shit. I didn’t find it especially difficult myself – the basic stuff installed and … Continue reading “Ringing endorsement”
Alan Kellog isn’t too impressed with WordPress:
I say the Hell with it. The documentation is written by people with something close to Aspergers Syndrome, with no consideration for people who have no background in coding, scripting, or any of that shit.
I didn’t find it especially difficult myself – the basic stuff installed and imported MT in less time than it took to transfer the MT export file over, so to each his own.
This blog runs WordPress: WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. A little rough around the edges, but it’s good enough. The main things I like about WordPress are performance and ease of management. In WP, you don’t have to compile pages … Continue reading “WordPress”
This blog runs WordPress:
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful.
A little rough around the edges, but it’s good enough. The main things I like about WordPress are performance and ease of management. In WP, you don’t have to compile pages into psuedo-static HTML, and it seems to grab stuff from MySQL faster than MT. The user interface stuff is a little rougher, but it’s probably not all that hard to hack, given that it’s all php and stuff.
Very nice software, I give it three out of four stars.
I’m experimenting with WordPress, a GPL blogware that’s a lot faster and more solid than Movable Type. There’s a lot of controversy over the new Movable Type licensing terms, and I don’t want to weigh into all of that because I don’t care. I’m looking at other packages because MT is way too buggy and … Continue reading “New blog”
I’m experimenting with WordPress, a GPL blogware that’s a lot faster and more solid than Movable Type. There’s a lot of controversy over the new Movable Type licensing terms, and I don’t want to weigh into all of that because I don’t care. I’m looking at other packages because MT is way too buggy and way too poorly designed for my purposes. The WordPress conversion was extremely easy – you just export your MT blog and import it, and the only problems I’ve encountered so far are with the hosting server, Hosting Matters, because they set default permissions too strictly.
WordPress accommodates zFeeder, the Robopundit software, extremely well. I’m still using the default template, and learning the tricks. Check out the experimental blog here: Mossback on WordPress.
I’m playing around with a GPL package called “zFeeder”, which does RSS aggregation and formatting in Javascript – it’s on the left-hand side. Functionally, it’s similar to the Robopundit tool I had on this blog a couple of years ago before RSS was all the rage and stuff. The old Robo was a major kludge, … Continue reading “Return of Robopundit”
I’m playing around with a GPL package called “zFeeder”, which does RSS aggregation and formatting in Javascript – it’s on the left-hand side. Functionally, it’s similar to the Robopundit tool I had on this blog a couple of years ago before RSS was all the rage and stuff. The old Robo was a major kludge, relying on a program running on a personal server and a service on a community college server in W. Va. that’s now been discontinued. the zFeeder thing is php that refreshes in real-time.
It has some quirks I don’t much care for, but I’m still learning how to use it and stuff. The installation was a snap, just one line in the MT template after the files were uploaded to the host of my choice. Someday all Blogware will have this function built-in, but for now we have php.
It’s cool enough.
Beheading returns focus to terror war: “Why is it that there’s more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?” — Sen. Zell Miller Via Dean Esmay
Beheading returns focus to terror war:
“Why is it that there’s more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?” — Sen. Zell Miller
Via Dean Esmay
Here’s the website where you can order The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld and hear a clip from The Unknown.
Here’s the website where you can order The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld and hear a clip from The Unknown.
Instapundit does a little digging and essentially proves that the mainstream media are burying the Nick Berg story in preference to the massively guilt- and blame-inducing prison abuse scandal, and meanwhile some video emerges showing that the charges that Abu Ghraib measures were dictated from the top are most likely bogus. The video, seen by … Continue reading “Spinning their little hearts out”
Instapundit does a little digging and essentially proves that the mainstream media are burying the Nick Berg story in preference to the massively guilt- and blame-inducing prison abuse scandal, and meanwhile some video emerges showing that the charges that Abu Ghraib measures were dictated from the top are most likely bogus.
The video, seen by members of Congress but not released to the world, shows Lynndie England having sex with multiple partners, apparently consensually. I’m sorry, anti-liberation crusaders, but Rumsfeld didn’t order her to have an orgy, and he shouldn’t resign on account of it.
For another perspective on Abu Ghraib, from someone who was actually there, go read Ali at Iraq the Model.
Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv, will be the new Prime Minister of India according to all press reports: “Ours is a coalition led by the Congress and every Congressman would like to see Sonia Gandhi as Prime Minister. Sonia Gandhi herself had said the people of the country will decide who … Continue reading “Indian upset”
Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv, will be the new Prime Minister of India according to all press reports:
“Ours is a coalition led by the Congress and every Congressman would like to see Sonia Gandhi as Prime Minister. Sonia Gandhi herself had said the people of the country will decide who will be the next PM and the results are obvious,” senior leader Ambika Soni said emphatically.
Leaders like Salman Khursheed and Mohsina Kidwai too pointed out that the mandate was clear — that “Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin is not an issue” — and traditionally the leader of the single largest party is the PM in a coalition government. Of course officially, it will only be decided after consultations with the allies.
The party leaders are also clear that Sonia alone deserves the credit for the Congress’ stunning performance. Also, of course, Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi who “inspired the younger voter”, said Soni.
All the pundits and pollsters were wrong in their predictions that the pro-business BJP would retain control of the government, and Indians are reeling.
Hobbs nails the fake outrage: Let’s be honest. The Left, which didn’t care that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were being tortured and murdered by Saddam Hussein, is only professing outrage about the events at the Abu Ghraib Prison because it’s a chance to undermine the Bush administration and the War on Terror. The American … Continue reading “Bill Hobbs on Abu Ghraib”
Hobbs nails the fake outrage:
Let’s be honest. The Left, which didn’t care that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were being tortured and murdered by Saddam Hussein, is only professing outrage about the events at the Abu Ghraib Prison because it’s a chance to undermine the Bush administration and the War on Terror.
The American soldiers who abused the Iraqis deserve punishment – their actions can not be tolerated. But to hear the Left’s “outrage” over the abuse of a few Iraqi prisoners of war is just sickening. They’d have been happy to leave 24 million Iraqis under the boot heel of a murderous thug who ran a regime of rape rooms and mass murder, of feeding dissidents into shredding machines, of draining the wetlands to kill of a tribe that lived there, of gassing civilians, of starving the citizenry while diverting billions in oil revenue to his own ends and to the bribing of foreign officials, and of burying dead women and children in mass graves.
It took around 200,000 brave and heroic American soldiers to end that awful regime and wake Iraq from its 30-year nightmare. A tiny fraction of the 200,000 have done some awful things, and they rightly will be punished for it. But they and their actions are an aberration. Don’t ever forget that. Don’t ever forget that America liberated 24 million Iraqis.
Exactly. And for a fine example of how to pretend to be a deeply caring person while not actually having a clue, go read Jon Garfunkel, who calls the incidents of hazing/torture “atrocities”.
While we all abhor torture, etc, and strongly condemn the unlawful treatment of Al Qaeda members by US forces in Abu Ghraib prison, dontcha know, and call for an investigation to get the root causes, of course, we nonetheless note that not all Iraqis are upset about the photos: EVERETT — The abuse of Iraqi … Continue reading “Iraqis react to Abu Ghraib”
While we all abhor torture, etc, and strongly condemn the unlawful treatment of Al Qaeda members by US forces in Abu Ghraib prison, dontcha know, and call for an investigation to get the root causes, of course, we nonetheless note that not all Iraqis are upset about the photos:
EVERETT — The abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of U.S. soldiers draws intense reactions from some who left Iraq to find freedom in Washington state, but prolonged outrage isn’t one of them.
While some local Iraqis are bothered by the images, others welcome them.
“It’s a terrible thing and it adds more wood to the fire,” said Hussein Al-Muhanna, who came to the United States in 1993. “(But) to me, it’s not the issue I have to worry about. To me, the main issue is Iraq’s future.”
Imad al-Turfy, another Everett resident, shows no sympathy for the prisoners, saying their treatment paled when compared with the horrors inflicted under Saddam Hussein’s regime.
“They raped our women. They killed our kids. So there’s hatred between us, the people here, and the people in Iraq,” he said, referring to the Shiite Muslims who emigrated and the Sunni Muslims who ruled Iraq under Saddam.
“Anything coming to them would make me happy.”
Ahem.
