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Entries from July 2004

Michigan GOP helps Nader

July 9th, 2004 · 1 Comment · News and Politics

Does this leave any doubt that Nader was put up to it by the Republicans to split the vote and insure a win for Bush?

Ralph Nader seems determined to make the ballot in this election year’s crucial swing states. So determined, in fact, that he’s once again accepting Republican help to do it, this time [...]

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Interesting log entry

July 8th, 2004 · Comments Off · Programming, Web

I see someone still thinks I’m running Nuke and is trying to hack MacMegasite, as this log entry shows.

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Come out, come out, wherever you are!

July 8th, 2004 · Comments Off · News and Politics

Via metafilter: “Wave of Outings hits Congress–Closet-cases running scared –being targeted are the closeted anti-gay members of Congress (and their staff), all a result of the Federal Marriage Amendment, due to come to a symbolic vote sometime before the election in November. More here, too: “We have accepted for far too long fellow gays who [...]

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Memory Upgrade

July 3rd, 2004 · Comments Off · Macintosh

I now have 1Gb of RAM in my Powerbook and it’s much faster. Before, when I ran ‘top‘ it would show only 5 or 6M of free ram, and it would be painfully slow from all of the swapping. Now I see at least 500M free with no disk swapping. I now see only one [...]

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Best T-shirt ever

July 3rd, 2004 · Comments Off · News and Politics

Someone is selling T-shirts with the VP’s memorable quote.

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Drupal satisfaction

July 1st, 2004 · 2 Comments · Drupal

It’s been almost two weeks since I switched MacMegasite to Drupal and I’m very pleased with the results. I also used Drupal to create a community site for my condo last week.
Posting news items is a lot easier with Drupal than it was with PHP-Nuke. When people submitted news items to the Nuke site, they [...]

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