Monthly Archives: May 2004
Phish to split
In a post to their official website, Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio announced earlier this week that the band were going to part ways for good after their tour this summer. The reasons for the split are unfortunately not as unique and special as Phish’s career has been. The band has named the standard “wanting to [...]
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MT exodus
While Six Apart are taking their time with the development of the personal license for MT 3.0, I have been testing out WordPress, the most likely replacement for MT for me. I’m somewhat hesitant to move away from MT just yet, but then again it does seem like there will be a point sooner or [...]
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Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
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MT usage
This post is in response to a call for posts on Six Apart’s blog today in regards to usage of Movable Type. I personally use MT for three blogs, one for news, one for diary like entries and the third one is a private blog. Of those, I am the only author for two of [...]
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Iraqi torture was planned and permitted
The whole uproar about the torture of detainees in Iraq has, like so many other media events, obfuscated the truth. It appears that the torture in Iraq was partially ordered by Defense Sectretary Donald Rumsfeld and a part of a larger new approach to “information extraction”. This reminds me again that there is very little [...]
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End-user MT
After reading many MT users’ comments on the new pricing structure, I found a few that pointed out that what came out last week was not the true 3.0 release yet and was merely a developer release. They pointed to past posts in the MT deveoper’s blogs where they indicated that there was going to [...]
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It’s about time I switched away from MT
Yesterday the authors of Moveable Type, the software this blog runs on, announced their new commercial version of MT and at the same time added that the free version would be limited in functionality from now on. Seeing as I as an individual would have to pay at least $69 for the full version I’ll [...]
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The return of the purges
In a new article that is to be published in the upcoming issue of The Nation, author Greg Palast warns that the voter purges that nearly cost Al Gore the election in Florida in 2000 could well come back for the general election this year, only this time all across the country. If this turns [...]
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Michael Moore censored by Disney
Disney has ordered Miramax, one of its subsidies, to not distribute Michael Moore’s new movie “Fahrenheit 9/11″. Moore alleges that they have done this as they recieve large tax cuts in Florida where the President’s brother jeb is governor. Whatever the real reason may be, it does seem as though Disney has a vested interest [...]
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