Archive for December, 2007

A Wordpress bug you should know about

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Quick PSA for my fellow WordPress users: Like me, you may not pay much attention to the announcements about upcoming Wordpress versions. However, hidden in the most recent version announcement is news about a newly discovered bug that makes it possible for anyone to see your draft posts if they know a certain […]

Top New York stories of the year

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

It’s not just Choppergate.

When bad organizations attack

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Tiger, tiger…

Post-Christmas comments

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Just a few comments that probably don’t fit in anywhere else…
Fayetteville Towne Center. I know I am always beating up on Ye Olde Towne Center but it’s so easy. Big boxes, not all of them connected, surrounding a truly gigantic sea of parking (with restaurants as distant islands). Seen in the early […]

Other people’s blogs

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

I-81 talk, sidewalk shoveling, state senate politics, winter photos, and more.

Look, but don’t feed

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

The kids are back in the ‘hood, without Mom this time. Just finished vacuuming up the seeds and corn left for the birds.
Time to put the free food away for awhile (sorry, birds) so our friends will go back up to Split Rock where they belong. (Or maybe we’re the ones […]

World’s worst Christmas wrap

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Just thought I’d share.
Here is one of my favorite online Christmas stations, Soma FM’s Christmas Lounge. (Here is the NSFW version, Xmas in Frisko.)
And local alternative Christmas music, too.

New York berated by Mom; told to make bed, get job

Friday, December 21st, 2007

We need a Help New York Help America Vote Act.

How to move a city

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

What happens if nothing happens to I-81?

Oh well

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

In recent local blogosphere discussions on reading and gadgets, the hope was expressed that the popularity of the Harry Potter series meant that kids were getting back into a love of reading. So what’s in store from the publisher?
With the Harry Potter series now completed, Scholastic, the United States publisher of those wildly […]