Here is a picture of Bob, a Korean War veteran and my dad. He was a big influence in my life and I think about him almost every day. I wish my boys had a chance to know him.
So here’s to you, Dad, on Memorial Day.
Dad loved movies, so in his honor we saw Revenge of the Sith with my boys and Sissy and her hubby. It was a good movie but dark, as promised.
(Read the rest of “Memorial Day 2005 & Revenge of the Sith 2005″)
Wow. I go out of state for a while and when I come back, one of my regular reads is gone! NuclearMooseCandy chucked it all. In the immortal words of Ballou, he’s gone, man, solid gone. (Read the rest of “Back in Town”)
Lorelle’s post on plugins led me to Scripty Goddess’s wpPaginate Plugin, which converts the “Next Page – Previous Page” link on WordPress pages to a “Page 1 | 2 | 3 |” type of link.
By far, this was the easiest plugin so far to get working. It looks great, too. ScriptyGoddess has written several other plugins I must investigate when I have time.
My dad had an old 45 record that played the song “Old Soldiers Never Die (They Just Fade Away).” I hadn’t thought of that song in years—until I read that Col. David Hackworth passed away.
I have devoted so much of my later life crusading to save soldiers from uncaring generals and politicians and bureaucrats, who tend so easily to view these kids—who are rarely their own flesh and blood—as abstract pawns in a virtual game of chess, because I was there. I stood and was counted, and I will never forget the pain when I signed KIA letters in Korea and Vietnam. I would choke up as I signed them—I could see the boys’ faces, their cocky smiles, their muddy soldier suits. Each signing reinforced the awesome responsibility I carried as a leader to be as protective as possible about the young lives entrusted to me.
David Hackworth, November 22, 2005, “With Deepest Sympathy,” the column that revealed Donald Rumsfeld had been using a machine to sign letters of condolence to soldiers’ families.
(Read the rest of “Col. David H. Hackworth: He Gave ‘em Hell”)
Root had a security issue resulting in a complete wipeout of his database. He wrote about it here, IfElse (Phu) suggested we do some directory housekeeping to prevent the same thing from happening to the rest of us, Podz gave his opinion on the matter here, and it was discussed in the forums here. (Read the rest of “Ay yi yi, and Now We Have TextPattern”)
Lorelle’s got some great WordPress resources on her site. How did I miss these when I was starting out? They would’ve made life much simpler.
Stuff like her “WordPress Resources List” and her “My Daily Tasks With WordPress” article are extremely helpful.
Now I’ve got my iBook back, I thought I’d update to WordPress 1.5.1.
There are plenty of grouchy requests for bug-fixing on 1.5.1 in the WordPress forum, but Lorelle’s impassioned request for us all to get along almost convinced me to go ahead and update.
Then I dropped in to see what MacManX thinks about it… and now I believe I’ll wait.
Normally the DHL guy won’t leave anything without me signing for it, yet today he dropped off a big box without so much as a knock on the door.
There it was on the porch: the cardboard shell containing my baby—one day sooner than I expected it—back from its stay at the Apple Institute for Fried Logic Boards.
With trembling fingers I ripped open the box, kissed my iBook all over, told it how much I missed it and kissed it some more. It’s a little grubby but it’s nothing a little Klear Screen can’t handle. When I pressed the power button, it started right up. I downloaded all my e-mail and when I heard the familiar glass “ting” a tear came to my eye.
Everything’s all better now.
My Mac Plus lasted almost a dozen years. I got my garage sale beige minitower G3/233 five years ago and it’s still going strong. But my brand-new G3 iBook/900 has fried three logic boards in fourteen months.
Woz forgive me, but Apple tastes a little sour lately. (Read the rest of “Lemon Apple”)
