and believe me when I tell you it’s not George W. Bush….
Yard by Yard - Reggie and the NFL run for Katrina refugees
Be warned though: you must have Flash8 installed, and the site’s not particularly kind to Firefox. No matter, it’s nice site and a more than worthy cause.
There ARE people out there who are trying to help.
I reported earlier in the week on using the WindowsLiveWriter as a blogging client. It’s a more than decent option; but I’ve since run across something that’s even better: the Performancing extension for Firefox.
It does everything WLW does, and lives on the Firefox status bar. I have it set to open in a new FF window, nicely sized to sit in the corner of my primary screen. HIGHLY recommend it!
I will definintely keep WLW though, for the infrequent occasions when I’m forced to use IE….
Technorati Tags: performancing extension, firefox, windows live writer, better than WLW, blogging client
Testing a new “blog helper” called WindowsLiveWriter. If it works as advertised, it’ll completely replace the broken wysiwyg that ships with wp….
I’m not young. I’m middle-aged, and maybe that’s a kind way of putting it. I’ve never pretended to be “hip”, “cool”, “with it”, “sick”, or anything else in the way of a label in any given era in which I’ve been alive. In fact, I grew up to more or less adulthood (let’s leave maturity out of it, okay?) in the ’60s - that era which supposedly defined freedom and “with-it-ness”. I was, however, very far from a “hippie”. In fact, I was then and am now a card-carrying member of The Establishment…. which is about as far from “with-it-ness” as one can get according to the anti-establishment, I think.
Regardless the disclaimers in the first paragraph, I have this to say about the state of personal accountability today:
No matter your age, no matter your preferred “label”, the state of your bank account, what car you drive, what watch you wear, whether a piece of paper defines your “joint” status with your sigother, whether your and your children (if any) are part of “mainstream USA” or not, whether you and your children (if any) have an education beyond high school or not, whether you pay your fair share of taxes or somehow get “by” them….
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR CHOSEN LIFESTYLE, ACTIONS, AND DECISIONS. Period. No one forces you to make a particular decision. YOU do so.
Bottom line: don’t whine to anyone when something you CHOSE TO DO backfires. And should you choose to whine anyway, kindly tell me exactly why I should care?
And once you’ve finished justifying to yourself (though not to me!) why I or anyone should care, be sure you explain in detail why MY TAX DOLLARS should go to bail you out (believe me when I tell you I will go to ANY LENGTH to make sure that doesn’t happen, btw….)
and I thought I’d found a keeper this time. However…. (there’s always one, isn’t there?)
The script in question is Vanilla from Lussumo. It’s a really nice package at first glance.
But guess what? By default, which is apparently never going to change, one cannot delete threads/posts! There’s a plugin which “might” make this possible, but it doesn’t work with the 1.0 release version!?
Now how stupid is this?
The COPE (”Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006″) bids fair to become a real problem for freedom of speech, the internet, etc; it’s a “sell the internet to the highest bidder” proposition. Follow the link above for a real nuts and bolts discussion, and see also the following great post by my friend bj: Save the Internet
Best things to do? Write and call your senators and representatives, and PLEASE sign the petition at Save the Internet!
