Menus in the Joomla/Mambo Package

August 29th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Ear­lier I’d com­plained about scat­tered doc­u­men­ta­tion in this pop­u­lar open-source pack­age, so I’ve posted an arti­cle I hope will be help­ful in nego­ti­at­ing one of the less-documented fea­tures, cre­at­ing index (aka “hub”) pages. I was also dri­ven to do this by the fact that it’s a major fea­ture yet com­pletely absent from the ref­er­ence book […]

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“It” on XM">“It” on XM

August 28th, 2006 | 2 Comments | Music |

If you’re an XM sub­scriber, check out the ‘60s chan­nel the next few days as they roll through every charted song of the decade in chron order. As of now, they’re in May 1968…

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Maynard Ferguson Dies at 78

August 25th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Music |

He of the amaz­ing high reg­is­ter suc­cumbed to kid­ney fail­ure ear­lier today. There will be plenty of ink from peo­ple who knew him, but I can share one indi­rect anec­dote. When I was in col­lege, I stud­ied trum­pet with a mem­ber of the Cleve­land Orches­tra. I’d gone to Sev­er­ance Hall one week­end to hear them […]

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Sci-Fi Becomes An Inconvenient Truth

August 24th, 2006 | 2 Comments | Politics, Uncategorizable |

This one gives me the creeps more than any­thing I’ve seen in a while

Giant Yellowjacket Nest

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Iwo Jima Photographer Joe Rosenthal

August 23rd, 2006 | 0 Comments | Art |

The pho­tog­ra­pher who shot what may be the most famous war pho­to­graph ever has died at 94. The photo depicts sol­diers rais­ing the flag on Mount Surib­achi after a four-day bat­tle to climb the 546 mount. 6800 US ser­vice­men died in the bat­tle. Rosen­thal won a Pulitzer for the photo, which has a clas­si­cal composition […]

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Deadpan TV

August 22nd, 2006 | 0 Comments | Comedy |

Part of Trio’s “Bril­liant but Can­celled,” “Look­well” fea­tures Adam West deliv­er­ing a stone-faced sendup of a sev­en­ties TV detec­tive drama. He plays an actor who played a detec­tive on TV, and uses his hon­orary badge to get in the mid­dle of crime inves­ti­ga­tions. Dig the halt­ing, Batman-style deliv­ery of his bril­liant deduc­tions. Best line, delivered […]

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No More Slogans

August 22nd, 2006 | 0 Comments | Politics |

It’s almost as though back in school, while the rest of us were read­ing “1984” and think­ing how ter­ri­ble it could be, there was this whole group of peo­ple who were think­ing “yeah, this could work!”

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Getting Out The Brooms

August 21st, 2006 | 0 Comments | Baseball |

As the Yan­kees fin­ish of a five-game sweep of the Red Sox. Shortly before the All-Star Break, some sports­writ­ers were writ­ing off the Yan­kees’ sea­son. Now a month and a half later there’s been a ten-game swing in the A.L. East. Gotta love it.

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Something much more important than ‘to like’

August 18th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Music |

Pick­ing up a nice bot­tle of red to go with my steak tonight, the wine mer­chant here in Maple­wood got my atten­tion. Usu­ally they’ve got a Brahms sym­phony on, but this time it was Stravinsky’s Orpheus. Now there’s some­thing you don’t hear in a retail estab­lish­ment every day. It got me too look­ing for I.S. blog resources, where I found a nice piece about his Vari­a­tions. Here’s to sophis­ti­cated taste.Excerpt from Stravinsky Variations

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On Spam

August 15th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

The other day I posted a sum­mary of a more pop­u­lar blog than this (what isn’t, at least so far?), and they were kind enough to link back. Besides gar­ner­ing a few more vis­its a day (thank you very much) I started get­ting a lot more spam posts. For­tu­nately, they’ve all been trapped thanks to […]

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Jaded

August 15th, 2006 | 2 Comments | Politics |

Jaded is a new blog by Anthony Car­touche (not his real name), shar­ing edi­to­r­ial respon­si­bil­ity with bram_jafuv (not only is that not his real name, I have no idea who he actu­ally is.)

The writ­ing shows signs of being more hard-hitting than before. See bram’s post on the brand-spanking new diag­no­sis of “per­son­al­ity dis­or­der,” a more cost-effective diag­no­sis than “post-traumatic stress disorder.”

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Blog Roundup

August 13th, 2006 | 2 Comments | Politics |

A cou­ple of blogs I ran across are worth not­ing. Kung Fu Mon­key com­bines a left-wing polit­i­cal point of view I favor, along with var­ied sen­tence struc­ture and a smat­ter­ing of obscen­ity, into the kind of mix I favor. The author is a stand-up come­dian as well as a screen­writer, and has a physics degree […]

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