Children Get The Worst Media
… and this has apparently been happening for centuries.
I now (thanks to
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A Rulebook of Children’s Games) have the decoding for that
children’s classic of whimsey and play, Ring Around the Rosey.
It is a memorial of the great Plague of London from 1665:
Ring a ring of roses
(early plague symptom: red splotches ringing the neck area)
A pocket full of posies
(Londoners carried herbs attempting to ward it off)
A tish-oo, a tish-oo
(late plague symptom: violent sneezing)
We all fall down
(guess those posies didn't help much)
Microsoft: Spawn of Satan, or Tool of Beelzebub?
Read the two stories referenced by this Slashdot article:
Microsoft Opens Source to China. Then think through the national
security implications if Jim Allchin’s sworn testimony is actually
true.
So, is Jim Allchin guilty of perjury, or is Bill Gates guilty of
treason? You decide!
[Either way, this does nothing to change my belief that the common
good would be well served by some Microsoft executive(s) spending 24-48
hours in the slammer —
or even better, bring back the stockade and let them be jeered at and
pelted with rotten vegetables.]
New Baby! (Not ours!)
Congratulations to Dale
and Heather Price on their
new baby son!
Terry Mattingly hits it perfectly regarding liberal Anglican
hypocrisy toward allegedly-respected Third World voices:
“The liberals basically spent the last 40 years saying, ‘Let’s hear
the voice of the Third World,’ ” said historian Philip Jenkins of
Pennsylvania State University, addressing a recent Anglican Mission in
America conference. “And now they’ve heard it and they’d like the
Third World to shut up for several decades.”
(Link via
Midwest Conservative Journal.)
Procrastination ‘R’ Us
Two months later, and I still haven’t either (a) fixed my Blogger troubles or made good on my threat to use BlogMax.
I blame Real Life™ plus a computer death and rebirth.
Blog Redesign Underway
Being the software geek that I am, I don’t think I can resist trying BlogMax for a while, and do my blogging in Emacs.
This should allow me to
improve my Emacs fluency, while
not having to deal with Blogger template fubars anymore.
Looks like a “win-win” situation to me.
Sitemeter
This looks like the only way I’m going to get my Sitemeter button back …
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(Yes, I check how many people read my scribblings. It’s also a bit … frightening … what some of the search strings are that lead here …)
Blogger: Tool of Satan, or just Bad Software?
So, I was able to edit my template long enough to restore comments. However, I am now back to having edits trash the template, before I was able to restore the “Links” section.
Blech. Must find better way.
Blogger improved?
This time, it looks like there’s some hope of editing my template. Stay tuned.
Blogger: Broken, or Just Buggy?
I have just confirmed to my satisfaction that a “zero” edit of a template (going to the edit page, changing nothing, and then saving) does, in fact, trash the template.
This is entirely unacceptable.
(I know, youse gets what youse pays for sometimes …)
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