Day: June 14, 2005

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upgraded bblog

yes i know everything looks different. there is a reason for it looking different. the reason for it looking different is that i have upgraded to a newer version of bblog and as of right now i can’t figure out how to import my old entries. for those of you are mysql literate here’s the issue (for everyone else just skip to the next paragraph) – from what i was able to figure out i had to start a new mysql database in order to use the new bblog code. the old code used an 11 table database and the new code uses a 10 code dbase. so i still have the old database with the old entries in it but i don’t know how to import them into the new table. if any of you know enough code to figure out a way for me to import my old entries i would greatly appreciate it.

to everyone else, i decided to change to newer blog code because my old software doesn’t allow me to control my comments (it won’t send me an email when i receive a comment or hold a comment until i say its okay). based on a few experiences i figured it was best to move to some new code that has some improvements. the sum of this is that the blog will look different from awhile and hopefully become better (the style of it not the content – there’s no hope for the content).

anyway here are some of the advantages of the new bblog code:

  • email notification of new comments
  • rss 2.0 and atom site feeds
  • the ability to disable new comments on a post after certain amount of elapsed time (i.e 1 week, 2 weeks, 2 months, etc).
  • the ability to edit the time stamp on a post.
  • the ability to actually edit comments rather than just deleting them, as was done in the previous version.
  • the ability to place html within a comment.

there are other benefits to the new code but these were the main incentives for me.

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del.icio.us re-explained

i know that i have talked about this before but it seems that a bunch of you don’t understand how amazing del.icio.us is. so if you still haven’t figured out what is so cool about del.icio.us and are wondering \”what’s the big deal\” about it you might want to look at the following links. they describe what the big deal is about \”tagging\”:

if you ever do any research at all (i.e. school, business, etc.) you need to be using del.icio.us.

SIDE NOTE – i just accidentlally kicked the computer and bent the toenail on my pink toe backwards. it is amazing how much pain such a little thing can produce.

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ONE campaign update


saturday some cool stuff happened relating to making poverty history. here’s how the latest email from the ONE campaign puts it.

together as ONE, we have helped do something incredible!

this past saturday, the u.s. joined together with other wealthy nations to free millions of people in some of the poorest countries from crushing debts. the finance ministers from the ‘group of eight’ or ‘g8′ nations agreed to write off billions of dollars of debt, and in return for cancellation, the qualifying countries will invest these savings in their own people — to help with more schools, health clinics and wells.

debt cancellation will quite literally save millions of lives — but this deal was struck by only eight men huddling around a table. eight men and the millions of us watching them, asking them to do the right thing. you called for this, with ONE voice, and they got it done.

the finance ministers’ meeting was just a warm-up act, a down payment on an overall historic breakthrough. let’s keep up the positive pressure for the main event, when president bush, prime minister blair and the other g8 leaders meet on july 6.

so here’s what you can do to help – go here and write president bush an email with your ONE voice and let him know how important getting rid of extreme world poverty is to you.

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del.icio.us re-explained

i know that i have talked about this before but it seems that a bunch of you don’t understand how amazing del.icio.us is. so if you still haven’t figured out what is so cool about del.icio.us and are wondering “what’s the big deal” about it you might want to look at the following links. they describe what the big deal is about “tagging“:

if you ever do any research at all (i.e. school, business, etc.) you need to be using del.icio.us.

SIDE NOTE – i just accidentlally kicked the computer and bent the toenail on my pink toe backwards. it is amazing how much pain such a little thing can produce.

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bbc news | technology | micro$oft censors chinese blogs

bbc news | technology | micro$oft censors chinese blogs
i have mixed feelings on the story behind this article. basically the article says that in order to do business with china micro$oft has given in and agreed to block blogs that have “banned expression” within them. micro$oft says this is not a statement of the company’s politics, rather they follow the laws of whatever company they operate in and this censorship it is just the price of doing business in china. so micro$oft has banned blog entries that use words like “freedom,” “democracy,” and “human rights.” yahoo has done the same thing.

my mixed feelings come from the fact that i do want companies to operate within the law. yet, my heart cries out that microsoft (and yahoo) should say that if this is the cost of doing business in china then they won’t do business in china. the money simply can’t be worth the cost.

one of the reader comments on the article says:

As all companies, Microsoft is at making money and in the modern world, ethics is not good for business, which is sad but you can see it almost anywhere if you have a look at the world.

i simply can’t agree. companies are not amoral entities. they are composed of people, people who have ethical standards, and thus those companies have to operate within the ethical standards of those who compose their numbers. even in their pursuit of “the almighty dollar” our businesses still have to operate within the ethics of their people. otherwise we are all doomed.

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ONE campaign update


saturday some cool stuff happened relating to making poverty history. here’s how the latest email from the ONE campaign puts it.

    together as ONE, we have helped do something incredible!

    this past saturday, the u.s. joined together with other wealthy nations to free millions of people in some of the poorest countries from crushing debts. the finance ministers from the ‘group of eight’ or ‘g8′ nations agreed to write off billions of dollars of debt, and in return for cancellation, the qualifying countries will invest these savings in their own people — to help with more schools, health clinics and wells.

    debt cancellation will quite literally save millions of lives — but this deal was struck by only eight men huddling around a table. eight men and the millions of us watching them, asking them to do the right thing. you called for this, with ONE voice, and they got it done.

    the finance ministers’ meeting was just a warm-up act, a down payment on an overall historic breakthrough. let’s keep up the positive pressure for the main event, when president bush, prime minister blair and the other g8 leaders meet on july 6.

so here’s what you can do to help – go here and write president bush an email with your ONE voice and let him know how important getting rid of extreme world poverty is to you.