December, 2012 archive
Mayan Madness 0
Ones, Zeros, and Magickal Thinking 2
The San Jose Mercury-News investigates why the Republican Party has lost Silicon Valley. It seems to be another manifestation of Stephen Colbert’s observation that reality has a liberal bias.
A nugget:
Boehner’s Plan B: “A Random Conservative Wish List” 0
Rachel Maddow explains:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Via Raw Story. If the embed doesn’t work, follow that link.
A Suit of Clothing 0
Cultural Life 4
A story about the Sandy Hook shootings quotes a local resident on the shooter’s mother (for some reason, that sentence below was in the print edition of my local rag, but omitted from the online version):
Indeed.
Spam Alert, Android Dept. 0
I’ve not seen this one, but from time to time–maybe once a quarter–I get texts telling me I’ve won something or other at Best Buy. Since I loathe Best Buy, they do not interest me.
I follow my carrier’s instructions and forward such messages to their spam-reporting address (7726 or “spam”).
The article goes on to state the obvious–don’t follow links in texts from unknown sources and don’t download programs from third-party app repositories.
In other words, think before you click.
They Can’t Handle the Truth 0
Men Are Pigs 0
So much for taking responsibility for one’s own actions.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
There has been another outbreak of politeness, this one in Pennsylvania.
It was perfectly timed to illustrate the cravenness of the NRA’s positions on everything.
Fat Chance 0
Talk about wasting the taxpayers’ money.
Substitute almost any college in the story, the effort would still be futile.
Some things never change.
Meta: Embeds 0
The new version of WordPress seems to have issues.
When I embed a video in a post, test the post, schedule it to post at a future time (you didn’t actually think I sit here all day, did you? Heck, Wednesday I went to Williamsburg for a meeting and my Christmas posts are already lined up), then test the post, the embed works. That is, it displays and plays. Then, when the post posts, the embedded video is gone.
This started when I installed latest WordPress version.
I try to fix it when I notice the void; once the post is published, the embedded videos seem to stick around.
In the mean time, I will include a link to the source of the video in the post. If I feel truly energetic, I might even file a bug report.
Be assured that any video I choose to embed in a post is Deathless Art and Must-See viewing.
If nothing else, it’s got to be better than Honey Boo-Boo or the Six O’Clock News.