Archive for November, 2004

Migration Misery

Friday, November 26th, 2004

So, I tried the WordPress-to-Drupal Migration script I wrote about earlier. I got nothin’. Nothing appears to have happened. No error messages either. I can’t figure it out, but I’m sure it’s something I did wrong, or something I’m supposed to have on my server but don’t. Evidently I’m supposed to have something called “DB.php” […]

You Can Dress Him Up

Friday, November 26th, 2004

But apparently, you can’t take him anywhere. Here s a look at how Bush behaved himself at the opening of the Clinton presidential library.
John Kerry arrived to defiant cheering from the crowd. Then, when the presidents were announced, Bush tried to push his way past Clinton at the library door to be first in line, […]

WP 2 Drupal?

Friday, November 26th, 2004

*sigh* Should I stay or should I go?
This morning I came across a new WordPress-to-Drupal migration script. Yesterday’s frustration with WordPress and its trackback problem started me thinking that perhaps I’d been to quick to decide which blogging software to use when I decided to go with WordPress. Of course, the truth is that it’s […]

Happy Holidays in Iraq

Friday, November 26th, 2004

Just added Iraq in Pictures to the blogroll, because there are a lot of pictures there of what’s happening right now in Iraq. The most recent photos are holiday pictures from Iraq.
At the moment, everyone’s napping, and I’m watching a DVD of Control Room via Netflix.

Trackback Working

Thursday, November 25th, 2004

OK. Haloscan trackbacks are working now. Not the ideal situation, but it’ll have to do for now.

Still Trackback-less

Thursday, November 25th, 2004

Well, after some searching in the WordPress forums, and on Google, I’ve found a lot of people touting this fix for the WordPress trackback bug.
So, I gave it a try. It only worked halfway for me. Apparently, I can send trackbacks now, but I still can’t receive them. Finding an answer doesn’t appear […]

More WordPress Wackiness

Thursday, November 25th, 2004

I posted earlier about my problem with trackbacks. I’m running WordPress 1.2.1, but I’m unable to send or receive trackbacks. That’s a bit of a bummer. OK, more than a bit. But at least I’m not alone. It seems lots of people have this problem with WordPress. It may be fixed in WordPress […]

Happy (?) Thankgiving

Thursday, November 25th, 2004

If it’s quiet here today, it’s because I’m spending more time with the people I’m most thankful for; my husband and my son. We’re going out for an early Thanksgiving dinner today, because that’s what you do when you have one vegetarian and one non-vegetarian in the same house. (At this point, Parker counts as […]

WordPress Wackiness

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

Something weird is going on with trackbacks and WordPress. First, I’ve attemted to trackback to several posts on other blogs, only to go back to those blogs and find that my trackback never registered. Second, at least one person has tried to trackback to a post on this blog and found it didn’t take for […]

What’s Right With Kansas

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

Another small step toward equality was taken, and in “red America” of all places.
LGBT activists are celebrating an unusual win: Topeka, the capital of the conservative state of Kansas, now has an ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation in city hiring.
“Red state or blue state, the American people strongly support fairness. The city of […]

Yet Another Look at W’s America

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

These glimpes into the dark hearts of some Americans are never pretty. Unfortunately, they’re not terribly rare these days. Take for example the experience of Darris Mortenson, a reporter formerly embedded in Iraq, who stood up for Kevin Sites (the now much-malighed reporter who shot the footage of a U.S. marine shooting and killing […]

A Step Forward for Our Families

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Via Daily Kos, I just learned that a Vermont judge has ruled that same sex couples in civil unions have the same rights as married couples regarding their children.
Same-sex couples joined together in a civil union have the same rights regarding their children as do heterosexual couples, a judge in Vermont ruled, contradicting an earlier […]

Brought Up By Hand

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Hope has a post on her site about spanking, which links to another post about spanking, on a blog belonging to a friend of hers. Upon reading both, I couldn’t help thinking of my own childhood, and the decisions my hubby and I have made about how we want to raise our son. We […]

Guess Which One’s Ours

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Oh geez. We got four more years of this guy. Folks, set your faces to “cringe.”

Via Atrios and Waveflux.

23rd Psalm .02

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

I prefer to think of it more as a “lament” than a psalm.
Bush is my shepherd, I shall be in want.
He maketh me to lie down on park benches,
He leadeth me beside the still factories,
He restoreth my doubts about the Republican party.
He leadeth me onto the paths of unemployment for the party’s sake.
Yea though no […]