Miklb's Mindless Ramblings

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More White House Ineptitude

BobHarris.com
has done some looking, and it appears that the Bush administration, in their back slapping of pre-hurricane state of emergency annoucement, FAILED TO MENTION THE COASTAL PARISHES!! Check out the map Bob’s got at his site, and the link to the whitehose.gov press release. So far, he’s found no explanation. Good one McClellan.

More White House Ineptitude was published on Sunday, September 11, 2005 at 11:44pm and tagged Politics, rants, White House, hurricanes and McLellan. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

Limbaugh - Intentional or Ignorant

Crooks and Liars has a sound clip of OxyContin Man slipping up and calling New Orleans Mayor Nagin’s, “Nayger”. They say it’s intentional “flub”. I personally don’t give fat boy that much credit. But the audio on my laptop ain’t that great. Regardless, another example of his ignorant lap dog mentality.

Limbaugh - Intentional or Ignorant was published on Saturday, September 10, 2005 at 11:33am and tagged Politics, rants and Limbaugh. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

Shameless Plug #1001

So I started the WordPress “fan” site recently, WordPress Station, and recently got it its own domain. And while surfing around, I found an open source design that was a hack of Apple’s brushed metal design. There was a brushed metal theme for WP when I first started using it, but it’s disappeared. Not sure why, but I figured there might be a few who’d want to give it a run. Therefore, I’m in the process of porting it to WP, and have it in “beta” over at WPstation. Plus, I’ve been busy working with an upstart hosting company, and will begin offering a great deal on a basic hosting package VERY soon.
Now if I could only motivate myself to post over at cookingwith more…

Shameless Plug #1001 was published on Saturday, September 10, 2005 at 12:54am and tagged blogging, my-site, geek-life and wordpress. There are currently 3 comments on this article. Share your thoughts by writing your own.

Jacob Appelbaum?S Weblog

Jacob Appelbaum?s weblog
Jacob’s blogging from Houston, where he and some other SF Bay area volunteers are trying to team up with volunteers from Austin and surrounding areas to set up a Low Powered FM radio. They have a license from the FCC, all the equipment, including a standing offer of 10,000 radios for the residents…the purpose, to easily disseminate information to the 10,000+ displaced New Orleans residents, now living in the Astrodome. Seems perhaps someone doesn’t want some “free speech” to trickle down to those that need it.
And I haven’t heard one cable network touch on this, though it seems the LA Times have half the story. Stay tuned.

Jacob Appelbaum?s weblog was published on Thursday, September 8, 2005 at 3:57pm and tagged blogging, Politics, the-world-at-large and hurricanes. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

KATRINA TIMELINE

Think Progress has put together a very good time line of events, easily outlining the total failure and lies from this administration. Thanks tiny for the link.

KATRINA TIMELINE was published on Wednesday, September 7, 2005 at 8:47pm and tagged Politics, rants and hurricanes. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

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Just a guy wandering the intarwebs looking to make sense of life.

Note to self, check to see what time a store opens before driving there. Sidenote - 11am, really Ikea?

Side Notes

I’m always on the prowl for cheap (read FREE) iPhone apps, and finding a simple source for such is no easy task, at least in my searches. Unfortunately, all the sites I’ve found that cover this type of information are so full of ads and poorly designed, it’s impossible to actually find anything useful. I have however recently discovered at dealmac.com a RSS feed specifically for discounted iPhone/iPod Touch apps.. I can’t say that I’ve actually found any great deals yet through it, (I haven’t had a chance to play the recent “Let’s Golf!” game posted today), but it’s a start. And don’t get me wrong, I have no problem paying for a quality app, and do so with perhaps too regular of frequency, but still like finding a deal when I can, especially on games, which I know I’ll only play a few times, or very rarely.
Do you have any sites or feeds that you’d care to share? Tips on finding apps on sale?
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I was pleasantly surprised this afternoon by a comment left here on the site that my first Habari theme, Mzingi, had been ported to another CMS, WolfCMS. Though I’ve since passed Mzingi off to the official Habari project, and is now owned by the community and part of the official download, it’s a bit rewarding to see it deemed worthy of porting. You can see a demo of it in action as a WolfCMS theme.
It’s also nice they gave attribution on the official site. I’d not heard of the project before, seems like a young project that is a fork of another CMS project, but their site describes the project as something akin to Habari.
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It’s always great to see new themes released for Habari, even if they are ports. Florian has ported the WordPress theme Clean Home to Habari. The theme’s name aptly describes the design, a clean, black and white two column design with contrasting red headings. The theme seems to be coded for trunk, that is, using the areas feature. One thing I noticed is that the theme still has some cruft from WP, calling for a dynamic sidebar (widgets) with some text that also references a text widget and and admin options. I of all people can understand though of wanting to get something out before working out all the kinks, so I’m sure he’ll update it as soon as the areas/blocks feature is fleshed out a bit more. I also don’t speak German, so it’s quite possible he references that in the post announcing the release.
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You’d think “Canada’s best magazine”, The Walrus would at least link back to my bookmarks if they are going to use my graphics in their post about Infinite Summer. Heck, they didn’t even change the name of the image from the 5x bookmark file. Real professional Nav, real professional…
At least they didn’t just hotlink to the image in my post.
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I’ve recently been using Safari 4 beta, mostly because I had been too lazy to get more RAM, and Firefox was just too damn slow with all the apps I’d have open on only 1 gig. Now that I’m at 4 gigs, I’ve been contemplating going back to Firefox, especially with the comments I’ve been reading about the speed improvements of the next version (3.5??). Another reason I’ve been contemplating going back to Firefox is that Firebug is just far superior to Safari’s built in inspector. To that end, I’ve recently come across two add-ons for Firebug.
The first, Firefinder, is a handy tool to “find HTML elements matching chosen CSS selector(s) or XPath expression”.
The second is one that Google previously used internally. Today they open sourced it and released, Page Speed. Page Speed allows developers to “evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.”
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