December 2006

Day 477: WordPress Trackbacks & Pingbacks

December 18, 2006

‘Tis a joyful day narrowing down and fixing bugs in seismic and blogging software.  Isn’t it frightful how lots of things fall apart around the holidays?  Since upgrading to WordPress 2.0.x, my blog hasn’t been sending and receiving trackbacks and pingbacks (These are not the same beast.  Hooray for semantics.).  Obviously, this blows chunks as you [...]

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Day 476: A Fish Called Nemo

December 17, 2006

Do I have a sign on me that says “Give Me Responsibility?” Is this why family and friends ask me to play straw boss at their weddings and take care of their kids and pets? I’m good with dogs, cats, plants and youngsters in that order, but a fish, and a Betta splendens at that? [...]

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Day 474: R.I.P., Peter Boyle & Ahmet Ertegun

December 15, 2006

Two greats in one week?  One who made a most hilarious and timeless interlude and the other, the coolest record-company exec, are gone.  Not everybody loves Raymond, ok?  The only reason that show is tolerable was Peter Boyle, who in his very own Costanza Sr.-like manner dealt with the ignominy of a dominant wife, family bickering and modern [...]

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Day 474: Skin Color – Epilogue

December 15, 2006

H ran into me at the coffee shop a couple of days ago and said, “The guy who asked about your skin color is slightly nervous.  He walked into my office today and asked if I had offended you.”  *blank stare*  No, I wasn’t offended; that’s why I read him the riot act.  Some people, [...]

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Day 473: More WordPress Tinkering

December 14, 2006

The Howl theme for WordPress doesn’t work well with Asides; it generates them as whole posts instead of smallish blurbs wedged between regular posts, thus defeating the whole point of Asides.  *thbpft*  However, I like its 3-column functionality.  Speaking of which, many newer 3-column WordPress themes forces one to install widgets, which I begrudgingly did last night … [...]

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Day 473: Road Home Paved With Potholes

December 14, 2006

Today’s Times Picayune blares the headline “Unhappy Endings” with respect to the paltry, insulting amounts of money received by a growing number of program participants.  Are Road Home Program accountants and managers such careless and heartless drones that they would meet $200,000 in damages, for example, with $500?  You simply do not treat anyone, especially tired, old and sick disaster [...]

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Day 472: An Evening With Thomas Dolby

December 13, 2006

“May you live in interesting times,” cursed the old man. “It’s much better than boredom,” I replied and appeared in this life. Do you know who that is standing next to me upstairs at the House of Blues? It’s Thomas Morgan “Dolby” Robertson, a.k.a. Thomas Dolby. Please hold on while I turn away from the [...]

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Day 471: Harper Blog

December 12, 2006

My friends, K and M, just had a baby girl and she already has a blog!  Aunty Maitri got her a fire-engine-red Baby Bunny blanket for those cold days when she wants to bundle up and use the wireless keyboard from inside her crib. There must be something in the NOLA water.  Another clam is in the oven and [...]

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Day 471: Tony Soprano Is Bacchus XXXIX

December 12, 2006

Adrastos drops that James Gandolfini, of Sopranos and All The King’s Men, will be Bacchus in 2007.  Hey, Karen, you’d best be sharing that box of throws you get from your pal Jimmy. Bacchus’s theme this year is “Through The Eyes Of A Child.”  Isn’t that a really bad old Michael McDonald song parodied by South [...]

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Day 471: Walking On The Space Station

December 12, 2006

Today, the international space station will have additions put on by two women, mission specialists Sunita “Suni” Williams and Joan Higginbotham.  [The astronauts will] use the station’s robotic arm to install the addition. The clearance at times will be less then 3 inches.  The spacewalking pair will then tighten bolts and connect utility cables to [...]

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