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 override for another class in the same section. That template runs node_view_gui on its children. However, when this runs, the datatype template is not overridden. Why? I don’t know. It’s a bug, I imagine. I’d fix it, but I can’t wade through this jungle of code. I’d report it, but then I have to wait for someone else to fix it. I looked in the forums and in the bug reports on the ezPublish site. No one has mentioned it.

Recently, in my modified code, I removed an entire set of templates that seemed to no longer be in use anywhere. However, I now realize that I was wrong (no big deal, I’m using subversion so I can pull the templates back out). The problem is, the templates are in the "content/view/*.tpl" family. However, when a node is viewed it uses "node/view/*.tpl" to render it. The content templates seemed to not be used. However, I realized today that, along side "node_view_gui" there is "content_view_gui". And "content_view_gui" uses the templates. The difference? I have no clue. Why one would use one and not the other? I have no clue. The documentation mentioned them both but doesn’t give enough information to indicate why they both exist.

I am so annoyed.

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 that have been recently disapproved for captioning:

• Bewitched
• Forensic Files
• I Dream of Jeannie
• I, Detective
• IFC Movies
• Law & Order
• K9 to 5
• Sanford and Son
• Sabrina
• What’s new Scooby-Doo?

[via BoingBoing and BoingBoing]

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 in
the sky, executing on a celestial computer the size of the universe,
with ‘God’ simply a gamer playing an unimaginably scaled up version of
the Sims."

[via BoingBoing]

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? maybe?) I’m going to start posting links individually, as I feel like it, with as little comment as I desire.

In a future version of revjim.net you’ll be able to filter this out, if you’d like. However, until then, just scroll past them if you don’t like them.

From now on, I’ll try to post the links as I find them, as opposed to posting a whole load of them at once, as I am about to do.