January 2007

Day 514: Tinkering With WordPress & Photoshop

January 24, 2007

If the blog looks hinky (to borrow a term from our very own Snagglepuss), I’m testing photo uploads, page creation and pingbacks via a reinstall of WordPress 2.0 (yes, enter the Wayback Machine). If they don’t work by tomorrow morning, all will be has been restored to former perusing glory. Thanks for your patience. Meanwhile, [...]

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Day 514: If It’s Anything Like The Walls The Corps Built Here

January 24, 2007

CBSNews.com: “Great Wall of Louisiana” Debated With a price tag of $886 million, 65 percent of which would be federal money … a bold plan put forward by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — and currently being discussed in the new Congress — would build a semipermeable “Great Wall of Louisiana” from the Mississippi [...]

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January 24, 2007

New Fat Rat Found in Cloud Forest. On first seeing this headline, I thought Cloud Forest was a New Orleans neighborhood Tweet

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Day 514: The Macaca Delivers

January 24, 2007

Senator Jim Webb’s Response To W’s State Of The Union Address (excerpts below) … Let me simply say that we in the Democratic Party hope that this administration is serious about improving education and healthcare for all Americans, and addressing such domestic priorities as restoring the vitality of New Orleans. … In the early days [...]

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Day 514: Tulane Environmental Law Conference

January 24, 2007

Please attend the Tulane University 12th Annual Environmental Conference on Law, Science and the Public Interest on March 9th and 10th, 2007. Registration begins on February 1st at the Tulane Environmental Law Website. Attendance is free! All topics of discussion – national, state, local and legal – are listed on the website. Issues of local [...]

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Day 512: WordPress 2.1 Released

January 22, 2007

After much blood, sweat, tears and gnashing of teeth (on the part of developers and end users), WordPress 2.1 is finally here. Never one to purchase or install the first edition of anything – except for the 8th Nissan XTerra ever made – I took the plunge and upgraded VatulBlog this evening. Can you tell? [...]

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January 22, 2007

Did OPP recently screen The Shawshank Redemption? Tweet

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Day 512: People, Not Audience

January 22, 2007

Blogging is not about talking at disembodied ether, but instead a great means to meet people and generate, discuss, opine and oppose with them. If it weren’t for this space, I would not have met a number of people whom I refer to as colleagues, co-conspirators, sparring buddies and friends. Again, it comes back to [...]

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Day 512: The Art Of The Protest

January 22, 2007

America is listening to New Orleans, they just don’t want to do anything about it.  On the heels of our own anti-crime march on City Hall, a recent topic of discussion on Radio OpenSource wonders if the American protest form of marching may become extinct.  Read and listen to Marching Towards Obsolescence. In a time when [...]

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January 21, 2007

Remember, kids, THE BEARS STILL SUCK! Tweet

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