As such, I will be deleting MT from my website. In the future, I am hopeful that I will be able to find another solution, even if that solution is hosting my own site.
In the mean time, as I have suggested before, please access my latests posts either here or here.
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From the iconic opening sequence, including a huge breaking wave, to the famous last words that the bad guys always hear - "Book'em Danno, murder one", the TV police drama Hawaii 5-0 had a good run. It is said that 5-0 was one of the longer running programs of its type. The 284 episodes (284 episodes!) ran from September 26, 1968 to April 26, 1980. Think of the range of history that occurred during that time. The Viet Nam War. The landing on the moon. Apple Computers.
Recently, Paramount finally released the entire first season on DVD (get here from Amazon). It is interesting to note that either Amazon under estimated the interest in this set or Paramount did. Why? Because when I ordered my copy last week, Amazon said it usually shipped it in five to six days. This morning, the wait is now one to three weeks. Locally, one radio station reported that all stocks had been sold out and not a single copy is available anywhere in the islands. I don't know if that is true, but if so, there is still a lot of interest in the old series.
Be there, Aloha
]]>Well, yet another extremist admits his deeds. This article here quotes Newt Gingrich admitting that he was having an affair while, at the same time, he was rabidly pursuing former President Clinton for, you guessed it, having an affair. When people talk about being prosecuted for lying about something that is not illegal, you can trace that back to this incident. The Republicans even impeached the President for not telling the truth about his affair.
Yet, Mr. Gingrich feels what he did was okay because, he didn't lie about it under oath. Oh, he did lie about it. Probably many times. But, for some strange reason, the Republican controlled Congress didn't investigate his misdeeds so that was alright. Indeed, he's lied about multiple affairs, reportedly including one that he had while his then wife was in the hospital being treated for cancer. Such a nice, upstanding, moral guy.
In future, when you see someone rabidly pursuing someone else for alleged misdeeds, start taking a look at the accuser's background because he or she, is most likely secretly doing the same thing as the accused.
In a totally unrelated article, the headline is "Public faith in leaders may be ebbing." Guess who was quoted saying there is a crisis of leadership? Yup, Newt Gingrich. Do I smell a run for the presidency?
Oh, the answer to the old joke that is the headline for this post: Whenever his or her lips are moving.
Have a Great Weekend, Everyone - Aloha
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Aloha
]]>Add to that mix a problem with Xandros Desktop Professional 4 GNU/Linux. Last week, I installed, but did not run the 3-D desktop module. As I understand it, all the kewl kidz are playing with this and I wanted to take a look. Although I had installed it, I hadn't had the time to actually try it. In fact, I still haven't tried it. But I am getting ahead of myself.
I guess, even though I've rebooted multiple times over the last week, yesterday morning Xandros decided it wasn't going to finish booting and just locked up at the screen that gives the KDE status (it stopped at "KDE is up and running.").
Fortunately, [pauses and pulls on flameproof suit], I dual boot Windows and keep most of my in-progress files on a flash drive or on our network drive. Hence, rather than spend time trying to figure out how to recover, I just booted into Windows and got to work. After lunch, when I had a few minutes, I rebooted using the Xandros install disk to see if it contained anything helpful to solving the problem. Unfortunately, not being a Linux guru, I didn't find anything that could automatically fix this.
Yes, I tried using the recovery console but that is a command prompt running in memory. If you want to access the hard drive, you must manually mount it. Even after that, there wouldn't have been much that I could have done other than, perhaps, run apt-get from the command line and try to uninstall the 3-d module that way.
Just for kicks, I booted off of a old Mephis GNU/Linux CD I had laying around and was able to use that, and the KDE environment it creates, to mount the drive. All the data was still there and readable so I knew I could copy off what I needed should it come to that.
Fortunately, I decided to reboot and take advantage of one of the options Xandros give when booting. Namely, boot in video safe mode. This got me into the KDE desktop and I was able to run Xandros Network to remove the 3-d module.
So far, crossing fingers and toes, all seems well.
Aloha
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But once I graduated from high school and left for college, I never really had the need to go back. Then, once I graduated from college and began working, I one day needed to look for a book. So I walked over to the library, headed for the card catalog, and opened the appropriate drawer to look for the card that would tell me where to look for the book I needed. But to my surprise, the drawer was empty. It seems the library had switched over to this new fangled electronic card catalog system. Now, you used a terminal to type in your search terms.
I admit, once I learned the system syntax used to do a search, this was easier than going through stacks of index cards. But this was before the Internet had become ubiquitous so the only way, other than through a dial-up BBS gateway, to access the system was to come down to the library.
Of course, now the Internet provides direct access. In fact, with the resources that are now on line, many times you don't even need to go to the library to get the information you need.
In line with my experience, this guy created a list of the top five industries disrupted by the Internet. He includes map makers, travel agents, yellow pages, CD stores, and libraries. To that I would add "media" companies such as TV, radio, and newspapers. Feel free to add your own list.
It seems to me that one of the common threads of the list is one of closed or even monopoly cultures. By that I mean there were middle men who you had to go through to get to the service you wanted. These middle men controlled access. Supposedly, the services provided by the middle men were for your own good because you were not learned enough or we didn't have the time to directly access what you wanted. But, we seem to be doing just fine without these services. We are the best judges of what we want, the way we want it, and now have the opportunity to get it.
The coming of the Internet removed the barriers allowing the customer direct access to what he or she wanted. Although there was a certain amount of learning how to use the services, we learned. And by learning, we were able to serve our needs better than a third party.
This does not mean there isn't a market for middle men. Sometimes we don't have the time to do the research or don't want to be bothered. But it does mean the market is now open and we can choose what works best for us.
So, before we mourn the loss, or at least reduction, of these industries, remember what replaced it is, for the most part, better.
Aloha
]]>When I'm done writing a post, I then copy and paste it into WordPress. If WordPress worked liked MovableType, all I would then need to do is publish the post. But it isn't MT. For some reason, WP continually inserts <br> tags all over the place, including within other tags. Of course, the tags within tags breaks the original tag so that is a critical bug but the others are just as frustrating. Especially when I write a longer post and I have to go back and re-edit it in WP to get rid of all the inserted <br> tags. Yes, I know, you are supposed to signal a paragraph break by hitting the return key twice. But this assumes I am using their editor to create the post. Why can't WP just leave my HTML alone?
I also had problems when I wrote the post about Xandros XN unable to parse problem. In that post, I have alternating sections of regular and italics text. For some reason, WP would force all the text to italics. I tried making all kinds of changes to fix this but WP kept overriding my HTML with its own. Said crufty HTML looked like line after line of repeating empty <em> </em> tags.This, even though I checked my original code against the W3C validator which confirmed my code was XHTML 1.0 strict compliant. Unfortunately, it took me two hours of going back and forth while I repeatedly deleted all these empty tags, which would be re-inserted every time I saved my work.
Compare this with MT where I just copied, pasted, and published.
So, there must be a way of turning off all WP formatting features. I've already turned off, in /Options /Writing, the "Users should use the visual rich editor by default" and "WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically" (this second option was the only way I could get the italics problem to go away. And yes, my HTML still validates without the help of WP). Is there something else I need to turn off so I can just get WP to publish my HTML without changing any of it?
Aloha
]]>The code was fixed and the aircraft were back on its way in 48-hours. Still, it shows how dependent we've become on computers...[follow this link for the full story].
]]>But I would be surprised if this happens very often. But if it does, I would think its up to the judge's staff to do something.
Aloha
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