Miklb's Mindless Ramblings

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More and More Tyrants in Their Underpants

Baghdad Dweller
bush undies Heh, another interesting take on the Sun photos.

More and more Tyrants in their underpants was published on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 11:09pm and tagged Politics, rants, the-world-at-large and Bush. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

They Must Be Kidding?

It looks like since I posted this, the WH strong armed who ever it was at the State Dept enough that they recanted their story, forcing Newsweek into recanting the blurb in the magazine. That doesn’t change the fact that it takes more than one little article to set off the Middle East
Everyone from the lapdog of the White House, Scott McClellan, on down to the talking heads at the State Department, are lambasting the blurb in the Newsweek

article about the desecration of the Koran. You mean to tell me, that one little article single handily ruined the United States’ global reputation? Yeah, right, we had such a stellar reputation to begin with…that’s like telling a football player he’s to blame for his team’s losing, ‘cause he dropped the ball on the last play. Because of course the other 150 plays before his, were all perfectly executed.
And doesn’t anyone think, that in light of the Mike Wallace witch hunt, that maybe, just maybe, Newsweek had enough legitimate knowledge of the story, that they have refused to come off the story completely? Otherwise, you would already see a full retraction and a head rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue.
But come on, a blurb in one magazine, sets off the entire region? That’s like blaming WWI on a single assassination.

What it really is, is another scape goat for this administration. Somewhere else to focus the blame, while they conduct more closed door meetings on our future.

They must be kidding? was published on Monday, May 16, 2005 at 12:53pm and tagged Politics, rants, Bush and national. There are currently 2 comments on this article. Share your thoughts by writing your own.

Bang! Bang! I’m Afraid

Do your own search on this one, but the chubby little bro’ of the prez signed this one into law today. If you are in FLA citizen and scared for your life, you can do what ever you want with your assailant.
Just think if you are a Vice Principal with an unruly kindergardener.

Bang! Bang! I'm afraid was published on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at 10:35pm and tagged Politics, rants, local and Bush. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

New EPA Mercury Rule Omits Conflicting Data (washingtonpost.com)

New EPA Mercury Rule Omits Conflicting Data (washingtonpost.com)So as the President and his henchmen argue the sanctity of life, the facts of Bush’s law in TX about persons on life support not being able to pay for their treatment being removed, depsite families wishes, I find this article at the Washington Post. The kicker, for me is this

because the cost to industry already far exceeded the public health payoff.

So potentially, my life is not valuable enough in terms of corporate costs, however there’s some screwed up sanctity of life for some woman who hasn’t been able to put a glass to her mouth and drink, and wouldn’t know it if Bush himself shot her up with mercury directly?
To not even acknowledge the study, after funding it, is obviously a ploy to hide the real benefits of stricter mercury controls. Not to mention the shear volume it would speak to the global community.

New EPA Mercury Rule Omits Conflicting Data (washingtonpost.com) was published on Monday, March 21, 2005 at 9:56pm and tagged Politics, rants, Bush and national. 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.

Classy. Miami Heat shell out 327 million for 3 players, season tix sellout, fire 30 people who sold said tix since nothing left to sell.

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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