Posts on ‘February 17th, 2004’

If it's not one thing it's another. I'm getting so fed up with this code base.
I made a template override for all items of a particular class in a particular section. I also made a template override for a datatype in a particular class in a particular section. Everything worked fine. Then I made an [...]

The U.S. Department of Education funds the closed captioning of many of the TV programs you see today. In their own special form of censorship, they've recently decided to stop funding the captioning of TV shows that involve Witchcraft.
But it isn't just WitchCraft the gets the boot.
Here are some programs from the list of those [...]

For the KingHeads in the family (*cough*Jess*cough*), Steven King was given the 2003 Distinguished Contribution of American Letters award for his novel, Carrie. Making Light has excerpts of his acceptance speech, or you can read the whole thing.

Due to the leaked source code to Windows 2000, we now know what the Windows developers think of the product they are developing.
[via BoingBoing]

A new product for the SimHead on everyone's list (*cough*Bonnie*cough*), a third party developer has written an AddOn for SimCity. Now the SIMs themselves can play SimCity. With this AddOn, "your simulated people can simulate being the mayor of a simulated city.
No word yet on whether we are all just sims in a great simulation [...]

Cingular and ATT wireless have merged in a $41 billion deal.
[via Matt Croydon and BoingBoing]

Normally, I hate to post small entries that are really just a few words of comment and a link to something else. So, I usually wait until I have a bunch, and then post a largish link round up. Well, not any more.
In order to start getting things situated for my Inklog migration (this week? [...]