Archive for March, 2007
It is enough to make one consider a Guinness at 5AM in the morning, but I managed to make it past 7AM and have stuck with coffee. What the hell am I talking about? Exactly.
As a veteran, I am as staunch a supporter on the need to fight terrorism and those who support it on a global scale as you will likely find. National Defense is a big issue with me, and I consider myself far more ‘hawkish’ than any American politician of the Republican party. [Note: which is why I will no longer vote Republican, for they have shown themselves to be uncaring about securing our nation's borders or winning our wars.] I would rather live in a Spartan nation than a nation full of whining me-me-me-all-I-care-about-is-me liberals any day.
If you have read my blog in the past, you are likely to know I think ‘just warfare’ is a doctrine for weakling nations.
I have to wonder, however, at the bumbling ineptitude of both our political and military leaders throughout the global alliance that is fighting what was previously called The War On Terror. To reflect the reality of how it is being waged, I thought it appropriate to give it a more accurately descriptive name…
Continue Reading March 30, 2007
Choc Beer is a beer unique to Oklahoma and has a history that you may find interesting. It comes from a region where miners built the economy. Pietro Piegari came with his family from Italy in 1903, and he himself started working the mines after changing his name to Pete at age 11.
Choc Beer is based on a recipe originating in Indian Territory, and Pete began brewing it for miners. He even ended up in prison twice for breaking Prohibition law. Choc Beer is an Indian Territory beer brewed for miners that survived despite Prohibition with its outlaw character intact. It is a wild-spirited frontier beer like no other, brought to you by a world famous Italian restaurant…
Continue Reading March 28, 2007
I was getting my daily dose of Gizmodo when I stumbled on a post about a truly bizarre political development if ever there was one.
It took me a minute to make sense of it in my head and figure it all out. I mean, for a nation that complains about a lack of jobs, it struck me as ironic that the solution to ending poverty and implementing the rule of law would be video games. But, the Mexican government must have a plan…
Continue Reading March 28, 2007
I received a wonderful comment from the Town of Herouxville, Quebec, Canada in response to my post on their valiant defense of Western civilization and the preservation of justice, equality, freedom, heritage, culture and liberty for all people.
In case you are not aware of what I am referring to, Herouxville has come under fire for standing up to outrageous demands made by various immigrant groups that seek to change Western society into another version of the often oppressive ones they left behind.
Now, Herouxville has a blog. Check it out…
Continue Reading March 28, 2007
Ever wanted to build your own blog? No, I mean code and all—not just installing and tweaking existing blogware. Well, if you have been thinking about it, I happened across just the thing you need.
There is a great four-part series—complete with code—over at WebReference.com on building your own custom blog solution using PHP and MySQL. They just completed the series with the fourth and final installment a few days ago….
Continue Reading March 27, 2007
A Dutch engineering firm will team up with a British archaeologist and the Greek Geological Society in an effort to seek out the island of Homer’s legendary King Odysseus—Ithaca.
One archaeologist believes it is no longer an island of its own, but is attached to the island of Kefallonia due to infill of debris in a narrow channel—caused by volcanic activity. Now, a high-tech expedition is being mounted to see if he’s right…
Continue Reading March 27, 2007
In another indicator of the fluid situation in Iraq, Sunni sheiks are siding with US forces to fight the insurgency in Iraq.
Might it also signal time to invest in certain opportunities and support the Iraqi government as a way to help peace gain momentum? Perhaps this is an early indicator that all the people in Iraq are finally fed up with the insurgency, and that the nation is over the worst part of it all?
Is it time to bet on Iraq?
Continue Reading March 26, 2007
Just heard it on the news (Fox). I am not particularly interested in the case, but I know a lot of people that seem to have some fascination with it.
According to law enforcement, there is no evidence of foul play.
What a media circus it has been. Not that I would have expected anything different. Just another example of a sad waste of life, really.
March 26, 2007
For bloggers, as any other type of writer, it is certainly nice to get your words out there where they can be read by the most people. Syndicating your blog feeds is one way to do this, and it works nicely. There is a downside to using RSS, however.
Content scrapers are a very real part of the blogosphere. How you deal with them has an impact on your personal blogging environment and the control of work you produce. It may have an important impact on your web traffic as well.
What should you, as a blogger, do about managing feeds and the existence of content scrapers? Your choice should reflect your goals and strategy as a blogger. I thought I would share with you what my approach is and how I came to the decision I did…
Continue Reading March 26, 2007
I found an interesting article on the history and name of the Imjin River in South Korea. I spent a year stationed on the north side of the river, between it and the DMZ, back when Freedom Bridge still existed. While we were an infantry unit, we were technically assigned as Military Police guarding the bridge. It was quite a memorable year.
I often wondered what the name meant, but never knew…
Continue Reading March 23, 2007
This is almost funny, since my blog is hosted here on WordPress.com, but I also have other projects going on. I have one website and blog that I am building around Drupal. I am also weighing the two to see which I will use for a public journalism type site that I will launch soon, and this article on Linux.com caught my eye…
Drupal vs. WordPress: Which is better for blogging?
March 23, 2007
What is in a name? Did not Shakespeare already cover this one?
Why, yes—he did.
Which explains why I find the whole excitement about crowdsourcing to be the sort of distraction that made me glad I ignored pretty much everything remotely related to Web 2.0 in terms of reading interests. I think the best thing that could happen to the Web would be if a rather large meteorite crashed into that little roomful of dweebs that must sit around thinking up acronyms and newer, redundant names for older, simpler terminology…
Continue Reading March 23, 2007
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