Archive for January, 2005
Gem from Iraq
When I woke up this morning the public radio station was broadcasting news about the election in Iraq. What was interesting to me was that they were not talking about who might win the election. That isn’t news, apparently. What seems to be newsworthy is whether people are voting, or not. I began thinking about [...]
Cost of War
In Bush’s innaugural speech he outlined a utopian vision of freedom for the entire planet. Wild! What will he think of next? The elimination of pain, perhaps. Most shockingly, he said that he believes that freedom everywhere is a necessary condition for the preservation of our own democracy. Just today I found a web counter [...]
Rabbit Trails
I was getting ready to dive headfirst into learning how to do a WordPress hack that would support multiple blogs. I visited the WordPress Support Wiki and searched ‘multiple weblogs’ before I started, in case someone had come up with a straightforword solution to the problem (more on that in a bit) I am trying [...]
New Territory
I hope that my sporadic attention to this blog will become more regular as I begin to solve a rather vexing puzzle that I created for myself a few months ago. I signed up at the community college for a course called Web Programming with PHP and MySQL so that I could work toward developing [...]
