Thanks Mark!
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Who Makes Movies?
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Broken RSS
Trish pointed out that my RSS feed seems to be broken, and I’ve spent some time trying to find out what’s going on without success. The actual RSS script is calling the database info and such, and should build the feed dynamically (as opposed to some software that builds the XML every time an update is done). The comments feed isn’t working either, but I tracked that to a link issue. The main RSS feed, when it runs, just generates a blank doc with nothing there.
Perplexing.
I can’t find anything in the WordPress Codex either. Anyone out there using WP with any ideas?
EDIT: So this is stranger than ever. When I checked the RSS at home, it worked fine. Here at work, nothing. I updated my .htaccess rules thinking there might be a rewrite issue in retrieval, but…well, it worked at home, just not here. I’m really, really perplexed.
So last night was Nine Inch Nails at the Orpheum in Boston, MA.
All I’ve got to say is: wow.
Not only did NIN play nearly everything I could have wanted to hear (Wish, Terrible Lie, Head like a Hole, Starfuckers, Hurt, and on and on and on) but they also gave a phenomenal stage show. The real surprise of the night though, was The Dresden Dolls. They opened for NIN, and just about rocked my face off. Crazy noise for just two people, great voice, the drummer was just nuts…I’m all over this album.
Today = heading to NY/NJ for some Raw Deal action. Wish me luck.
Well, tomorrow morning I will be taking off for a weekend in the great Northeast. First to Providence, RI, then to Boston, MA to see Nine Inch Nails in concert, then finally down to NY/NJ to see friends and play games.
I’ve got no idea what my intarweb access will be like along the way, so if the blog is quiet for a couple of days, I’m not dead. Wish me luck!
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Spam Karma again
I’ve installed and am testing Spam Karma 2, the next generation blog-spam tool. The original did wonders for WP 1.3, but we’re up to 1.5.1 now and the tool needed an upgrade. It appears that this is a radically fully-featured spam tool, but the only real way to know is to test.
So testing I will go.
If anyone tries to leave a comment and gets caught or rejected, please let me know.
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Jean & Dave
As promised, the pics from the wedding and reception are up on Flicker, under either daveandjean or jeananddave…if everyone would use those two tags when they add photos, we could build a nice album.
Hope everyone from the wedding got home safely (hope you found your keys, Jesse). Keep in touch…I miss everyone already.
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Things Falling Apart
I had no idea that this template just completely fell apart in Internet Explorer.
Why is it that when you have a table with nested relative sizes (example: a row set to 100%, with 3 columns at 33% each, holding an image at width=”100%”) IE just ignores it. It appears to render the images full size, ignoring the width specifications of the table.
Anyone have any idea? Firefox happily renders it properly…
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Those that know me well might be surprised to hear that as a child I was rabidly addicted to the C.S. Lewis Narnia books. My mother bought me the paperback set of them, and I read them until they fell apart. I adored the powerful children, the idea that these kids could become kings and queens, and could fight evil and win. They could talk to animals, befriend fawns, and command armies…these were the children that I wished I could be.
Discovering that the stories were Christian propaganda was disappointing, to say the least. But I still remember being riveted to the tales, and reveling in the adventure of it all. The morals contained within the stories (greed will cause you heartache and pain, loyalty and bravery will always win the day, love really will make everything right) are universal morals, not just Christian ones. I suppose I can live with the thinly veiled character re-writes of christian mythology, if only because the stories are so very part of my nature.
In any case: now comes the movie, and the trailer. I’m not sure how all of these came out at once, and May became “movie trailer month” on the blog. But I promise that we’ll go back to our regularly scheduled copyright issues, blog defending, and library stuff soon. For now, I give you: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Grab a piece of Turkish Delight and enjoy!
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Back from Chapel Hill
Back from Chapel Hill, and happy to be back in the wilds of TN. Photos from the amazing wedding will follow shortly (I’d like to suggest everyone, when throwing pics up on flickr, use the same tag so that we can find them all easily…how does “jeananddave” work?).
I’ll try to get pics up this evening, but wanted to take a moment to let everyone know how great it was to see you again. Patrick, Abe, Justin, Jane, Charles, Owen…we miss all of you! You should all come take a vacation in the mountains of Tennessee.