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Mr. Bones was the hit of the party with his singing & dancing.

Even pets got into the act.

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Oliver Willis: “I endorse John Kerry for President because he represents a return to the mainstream values that have been the hallmark of American democracy. If elected, I believe Kerry will be a vigilant defender of our security, our rights, and of our economic wellbeing. I believe that a vote for John Kerry will be [...]

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George Soros:
An open society such as ours is based on the recognition that our understanding of reality is inherently imperfect. Nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth. As the philosopher Karl Popper has shown, the ultimate truth is not attainable even in science. All theories are subject to testing and the process of replacing [...]

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The comment spammer that hit me Thursday is back. Since then I added a patch which rejects comments containing certain strings before it even gets held for moderation. I just added a few patterns from his latest spam, so he’ll be gone soon. As soon as I get any spam, I add any unique strings [...]

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I just got hit with 4 5 6 comment spams from the same asshole, advertising the same 3 products in each one. All comments here must be approved by me before they appear, so the spammers are just wasting their time since none of their spam will get past me without being deleted. I [...]

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Last week I installed a 120G drive, which I got for $85 from CPU Solutions, in my G4 minitower, replacing the old 40G secondary drive (it also has an 80G drive). Since I have lots of disk space, I partitioned it for Linux as well as Mac OS X. I also have Jaguar installed on [...]

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(via Oliver Willis)

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Over the past week I’ve received several flyers from the Republican Party endorsing Bush as a friend of Jewish people and Israel, even though I’m a registered Democrat. They must be sending it to everyone with a Jewish name. Well, I have news for them - I don’t care about Israel and I consider myself [...]

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Via Oliver Willis: Don’t miss Eminem’s new video. For once, I actually like something he’s done.

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I just discovered a great new audio blog, Benn loxo du taccu about West African music. Although the title is in Wolof, which I don’t understand, the content is in English.

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I now have an orchid growing on a tree in front of my condo

One of my neighbors started this trend a few weeks ago

We wrap the roots in cloth and tie it to the tree. After a few months, the roots will grow into the tree and we can remove the cloth.

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I just got hit with 4 comment spams at once. Note that all comments are held for approval before they appear, so all spam will be deleted before it gets posted. Furthermore, I add a DENY for every spammer’s IP address to my .htaccess.

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I just wrote a Drupal lyrics module for WorldBeatPlanet to replace my old hack of using a page with the taxonomy term ‘lyrics’. It’s a very simple node module which adds an artist field and has a nicer overview page listing only titles & artist.

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A few days ago I got a very nice email from Jimi Mbaye praising WorldBeatPlanet. He has a new album, which isn’t available in the US, and he now has his own studio and has been producing albums for other artists.
I’ve rearranged the topics at WorldBeatPlanet and eliminated the regional topics, since so much music [...]

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Via Brian’s Blog:

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A first sign of trouble on Nov. 2 (via the Sun-Sentinel):
Problems were being reported at nine of 14 early voting sites in Broward County on Monday morning.
Gisela Salas, of the Broward Elections Office, said workers were having problems with a live database connection that is used to verify that a voter is properly registered.
The [...]

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via /dev/blog:
Which OS are You?
They’re right!

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When I upgraded MacMegasite to Drupal 4.5 I got rid of the old filestore module I was using for downloads. Instead, I’m now taking advantage of the new capability to attach files directly to a story. I created a download page which lists the 20 most recent attached files. I found that the best way [...]

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I’ve upgraded both MacMegasite and WorldBeatPlanet to Drupal 4.5. The updates went very smoothly. To ensure that users won’t access the site during the updates, I changed my .htaccess to deny all except my own IP address and changed it back to allow all users after I finished the update.

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I believe Barack Obama will be the first black president of the US, but let’s not forget the original black president: Fela Kuti. Today would have been his 66th birthday, an event marked by Fela Kuti Day celebrations in NY & LA.

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