I got a phone call today, supposedly from DomainRegistry.com.
Unfortunately, though suspicious, I did provide my street address… I resisted, but he read it off to me, and I confirmed it… what are you gonna do? Also, I suppose he knows my phone number, since he called me on it.
Then he gave me the 800 number 800-591-7398 (8005917398) as a number to find out more about what they are offering.
1000th “Death Penalty” murder since reinstating in 1976
Doesn’t it seem strange to be killing people for killing people? I am aware that there are people that are dangerous enough to never let back into the population, but it seems hypocritical to kill them… Aside from the people who are significant dangers to our society, prisons should generally be cleared out a lot. We are a nation built on and ruled by fear.
Anyone else getting a flood of blog comment spam recently?
WordPress is awesome enough to catch all of it as probably spam and put it into a moderation queue for me, but I still had 80+ comments to delete in the past week… and I have to be careful not to delete a non-spam comment… not a good situation.
So I looked into plug-ins for WordPress and found a few, but the one I liked the most is called bad behavior.
Here is my requisite turkeyday post. Anita had to work her last day today, so we are in Columbus still. She plans on not working until this summer. I’ve been encouraging her to do this… though her ~10 hours of work a week doesn’t sound like much, since she does ~60 hours a week of school work – a few extra hours to relax would be welcome.
We will be driving to Louisville tonight after anita is off work.
So – the new template is up on zeroasterisk. Not only does it look different right now – this template is setup to be controlled by CSS, so I’ll be providing options on how to view the site. Until I offer those options (look in the top right hand corner of the page for them) you’ll have to make due with this one.
Also, I’ve updated to gallery 2 and mediawiki… The wiki update means little to any users, but the gallery update may effect anyone who uses my gallery.
There is a beta of a site that allows anyone to create a group, and people can add themselves / photos to it, and where they are at… it uses google maps API to plot the photos on a map… really neat stuff in my opinion… so anyone who wants to spend 2 minutes to see if they are even mildly impressed / interested / entertained… go to http://www.frappr.com/zeroasterisk and “add yourself”.
After reading the article: CIA prisons leak ‘to be probed’, I was overcome one specific emotion: unease (fear)… The fact that there are secret prisons and nobody knows about them scares the hell out of me.
Basically, if I was taken to prison for thinking our current government sucks (or for being too cynical or too naive), I would want people to know about it… and hopefully make a fuss… you know… maybe get to talk to a lawyer and not be tortured.
Anyone wanna come march to protest the war in iraq? I’ll be there, and so will phil…
Memorial to be Held in Support of Troop Withdrawal from Iraq
Columbus OH Saturday, November 5 The OSU student peace advocacy group AntiWar Columbus will be demonstrating in support of troop withdrawal from Iraq at the Gallery Hop in the Short North area from 8 PM 11 PM on Saturday November 5th.
Students will assemble at the Gazebo in Goodale Park at 7:30 PM and march to the intersection of Buttles Ave.
My boss just sent me a link to the following article:
PHP catching on at enterprises, vying with Java Not only is it cool my boss sent it to me, but the content of the article is great news for anyone who is a fan of PHP… (and anyone who doesn’t know if they are or not, I very much am… so if you can’t form your own opinion on the topic, you may borrow mine) As more and more businesses realize the power, flexibility, and simplicity of PHP – as it comes into the mainstream more and more – I get more chances to work with it, teach friends about it, get paid to build stuff with it… etc.
I played ultimate frisbee today, one of the last evening games of the year. It’s been getting dark earlier every week and now we have to stop playing around 7:15… when you start at 6:00 of after, that’s really frustrating.
What might have been frustrating was that it was cold and rainy today, starting to be really ugly right about the time we started playing… but it wasn’t frustrating at all.