I’m Mormon. Everyone is getting one of these this Christmas, including me. OK, not everyone, just us Mormons. Everyone else gets WWJD (for a Klondike bar).
Apparently, some people can’t take a joke. What, you don’t have non-member friends who’ve asked you if you want a drink, a smoke, anything? Come on, people… get real.
Below contains some extremely freaky geekery… proceed at your own risk.
I’ve been playing with XSL recently, and was thinking that there really should be a blogging platform that uses XSL as its template language. We could get away from all the MT tags, all the funny TextPattern stuff, and WordPress could have some templating language outside of PHP. It doesn’t even have to be slow. Each type of page (home, archive, individual, etc) could be configured to put certain elements into the DOM, and you could then associate each template with an XSL file (like you do with TextPattern today).
It could be a lot of things, especially if the major tool providers could agree on a schema (I’m thinking Atom with some extentions for category lists, etc). Templates could be traded among systems. If you create a new tool, you’d only need to use DOM/XSL and you’ve got your templating language, and if enough of the tools support it, you know you’ll be able to find people who know. The people who know it, as an added bonus, are not limited to just blogging. XSL is used in other tools and industries.
Of course, I don’t have the time to do anything about any of this, but it sure would be fun, wouldn’t it?
I just wrote mine…
Dear Senator Warner,
\
I read this story today and was\
shocked that an agency of this Government would attempt to withhold voting\
information from Americans living abroad. The explanation provided by the\
Pentagon is completely\
unreasonable, as U.S. Government sites that deal with much more sensitive\
information, and would be at much higher risk for hacking (such as\
whitehouse.gov) are available without incident through the affected ISP’s.\
This can only be a politically motivated decision, and it troubles me greatly.
This is an attempt by someone to disenfranchise thousands, if not millions,\
of American citizens, many in our Armed Forces, and it needs to be stopped\
immediately. This is an affront to one of our basic rights as citizens of this\
country, and that the Pentagon would take this step without Congressional\
approval or proper notification of the public is unacceptable.
I hope, as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, you can put a stop to\
this and get answers as to why this decision was made, who made it, and see\
to it that the responsible party is properly reprimanded. Personally, I think\
the appropriate action is that whoever approved this action be removed from\
their position.
Sincerely,
\
Kevin Lawver
\
Sterling, VA
(I e-mailed McCain too)
Pentagon blocks site for voters outside U.S.
Unbelievable. Their explanation is hackers? I call B.S.. Apparently no other U.S. Government sites are blocked, just the one for Americans living overseas to register to vote, and close to the deadline for registration as well. What are you afraid of, W?
I can’t believe that our government would sink so low. How do you justify cutting off millions of Americans living abroad, including several thousand members of our armed forces, many of whom are serving in war zones created by this President, from information they need in order to cast their votes?
This goes way over the line. Whoever approved this needs to be fired today, and charged under any applicable law. This is insane. How dare they. Have they no shame?
No matter who you support, trying to take away the right to vote from any American citizen who has that right should be seen as gross misconduct and treason. We’re not talking about a floor vote on the Senate. We’re not talking about buying influence. We’re talking about trying to take away a basic right guaranteed by the Constitution. You try to take that away from any citizen who has it, you’re not fit to work for my Government.
Hey, look on the homepage, and you’ll see something new underneath the really cute pictures and the feed links… I have a linklog now! I know, I’m shocked too, but it was time. There are things I come across every day that I don’t have time to really blog about, but want to keep track of for future reference. Now, you’ll see them almost as I do, thanks to del.icio.us. There’s also a new feed in the list in case you really want to keep up with the links I post.
OK, if McCain, Luger and Graham are on the President’s side, and they’re being this rough on him, how bad is it really?
It’s time for something different. This Administration will obviously never admit a mistake, much less try to correct the ones staring them in the face, even when pointed out by the most experience generals, and politicians from their own party. Without new leadership, we have no hope of getting Iraq right, or escaping it before it explodes.
Told you I wasn’t kidding… this kid has some crazy Flock of Seagulls hair. But, he’s the cutest baby in the history of babies (tied for first with Max anyway). How can you look at this face and not smile?
We gave Brian a bath, and forgot to brush his hair. Let this be a lesson to you… don’t brush your baby’s hair, and he’ll end up as the keyboard player from Flock of Seagulls.
Dooce never disappoints. I proudly, and without shame, link to the greatest poop story ever told. As someone who once went without pooping for almost two months, I feel your pain. I never passed out from pooping, but I did pass out once after pooping. I was sitting there too long, legs were asleep, stood up, sat back down VERY quickly, woke up with head on toilet paper roll, and a hand in the toilet.
