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Entries for January 2005

What type of movie (fan) are you?

You scored as Sci-Fi/Fantasy. You scored Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Depending on the movie this might not deserve a "Congratulations", but you're interested in the future and imaginary worlds far from your own. You probably wish you could be somebody else, or live in one of the worlds from your favourite movies. Check out: Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, Star Wars, The Matrix. Sci-Fi/Fantasy 70% Drama/Suspense 65% Artistic 60% Mindfuck 60% Sadistic Humour 55% Romantic Comedy 55% Mindless Action Flick 35% Movie Recommendation. created with QuizFarm.com

How big a loser are you?

Totally blows me away. I was sure the no piercings and no tatoos responses would doom me to loserdom.

Bush & Rice - a la Abbot & Costello

George Bush: "Condoleeza! Nice to see you. What's happening?" Condoleeza Rice: "Sir, I have the report here about the new leader of China."
George: "Great. Lay it on me."
Condoleeza: "'Hu' is the new leader of China."
George: "That's what I want to know."
Condoleeza: "That's what I'm telling you."
George: "That's what I'm asking you. Who is the new leader of China?"
Condoleeza: "Yes."
George: "I mean the fellow's name."
Condoleeza: "Hu."
George: "The guy in China."
Condoleeza: "Hu."
George: "The new leader of China."
Condoleeza: "Hu."
George: "The Chinaman!"
Condoleeza: "Hu is leading China."
George: "Now whaddya' asking me for?"
Condoleeza: "I'm telling you Hu is leading China."
George: "Well, I'm asking you. Who is leading China?"
Condoleeza: "That's the man's name."
George: "That's whose name?"
Condoleeza: "Yes."
George: "Will you or will you not tell me the name of the new leader of China?"
Condoleeza: "Yes, sir."
George: "Yassir? Yassir Arafat is in China? I thought he was in the Middle East."
Condoleeza: "That's correct."
George: "Then who is in China?"
Condoleeza: "Yes, sir."
George: "Yassir is in China?"
Condoleeza: "No, sir."
George: "Then who is?"
Condoleeza: "Yes, sir."
George: "Yassir?"
Condoleeza: "No, sir."
George: "Look, Condoleeza. I need to know the name of the new leader of China. Get me the Secretary General of the U.N. on the phone."
Condoleeza: "Kofi?"
George: "No, thanks."
Condoleeza: "You want Kofi?"
George: "No."
Condoleeza: "You don't want Kofi."
George: "No. But now that you mention it, I could use a glass of milk. And then get me the U.N."
Condoleeza: "Yes, sir."
George: "Not Yassir! The guy at the U.N."
Condoleeza: "Kofi?"
George: "Milk! Will you please make the call?"
Condoleeza: "And call who?"
George: "Who is the guy at the U.N?"
Condoleeza: "Hu is the guy in China."
George: "Will you stay out of China?!"
Condoleeza: "Yes, sir."
George: "And stay out of the Middle East! Just get me the guy at the U.N."
Condoleeza: "Kofi."
George: "All right! With cream and two sugars. Now get on the phone."

Do you want to live forever?

Found this quiz this morning.

I've known since I was 5 that I was going to live to be extremely old. I guess to a 5 year old this counts as 'extremely' old. Nowadays I think it's not quite 'extremely.'

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Condoleezza Rice is Such an Idiot!

During confirmation hearings before the Senate the current nominee for Secretary of State actually said she doesn't believe that members of terrorist groups like al Qaeda deserve the protections of the Geneva Conventions on the Treatment of Prisoners. I don't think I've ever heard a more foolish public comment by anybody at any level of government in my 43+ years on this rock.

Dr. Rice, you must get it into that mass of pudding between your ears that adherence to the Geneva Conventions have nothing at all to do with whether the prisoner in question 'deserves' any sort of treatment. They have nothing to do with what sort of person the prisoner may or may not be, at all. They have absolutely everything to do with what they say about us, and how we expect our sons and daughters to be treated.

To exempt any group from these basic protections exposes all of us to the very treatment they are designed to prevent. The fact that an enemy faction subscribes to methods of terror and torture is not adequate justification to suspend this protection for those persons in our custody, regardles of their affiliation or intents.

Embedded code test #2

So, the PHP code I tried to include met with absolute failure. Here's the next test. The same task recoded in Javascript.

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So, here's a fun little test

Just playing around here a little bit. Let's see what happens when you paste in a block of PHP code!

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What age do you act?

You Are 33 Years Old

33 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

Yeah, sure. If you believe I'm 33 I'll tell you another story.

Hammer Time

So, the announcement went out that Blog.Case.edu was available for beta work and I jumped in with both feet and a big stick. I've used Moveable Type before so I was already familiar with the admin interface, and the entire data model behind it. Here's what I found:

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WooHOO! Beta testing has begun

Well, it looks like the university has heard the call of the wild. All over campus we have people serving their own blogs off of their own desktops with either IIS or Apache. This poses some system security risks that expose the university network to lots and lots of unknown performance destroying hoo-hah.

I'll start testing this and see how useful it is. If things work well I can stop serving my own blog from my desktop.

Bananas are yellow

What's Missing from Blog.Case.edu:

Post via email.

I suspect this will be picked up in the first site software upgrade. That's a reasonable expectation since Six Apart, the company that owns Moveable Type, recently acquired LiveJournal.com and the software that runs LJ provides this feature.

Other features that may be added as a result of that acquisition would be posting via voice mail, and via a desktop client or browser extension.

We can only wait and see.

Beta Two

This is a second test message