Month: August 2008

I feel like I’m finally getting this website looking like something I wouldn’t be embarrassed to show someone else. It has taken several hours to figure out the .info and .tpl files. Thank heaven I already knew some CSS. At one point I was stumped and finally realized I was missin a ‘;’ at the end of a line in the CSS. Too many hours staring at the screen, I guess. I’ve heard the claim before from other software, notably phpBB: “don’t hack the source — theme in the templates”, but that’s hooey, however, Drupal really has made it possible to theme your website without hacking any source. I’m extremely impressed with the power I have to control content, define…

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I got another one of those weird Christian emails today; you know the ones: “Jesus kills people who mocked him (like John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe)” or “America is God’s Special Chosen Country” or “In God We Trust missing from US dollar coin” or “crazy liberals are taking prayer out of schools” or “lunatic goverment officials threatening Touched by an Angel”. I hate those emails. First off, they come from a friend you love and respect: a fellow Christian. They’re full of unreliable (at best) propaganda or lying tripe (at worst). Then they try to guilt you by saying something like “send this on and get 45 prayers” or “email if you love Jesus” or “pass this on because you…

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I guess I should post about the attempt at losing weight…. I started working out, and almost immediately my hands started bothering me. A way lot. I stopped sleeping and decided to go to the dr, but by the time that I realized it was my hands hurting, we were practically en route to S. Korea. So anyway. Failed at that. I did go to the dr about my hands. My symptoms this time are more like ulnar tunnel syndrome than carpal tunnel: mostly in my pinky and ring finger. I got a referral to a neurologist to try to get some help, though, and some Celebrex to help the pain. The trip to Korea was good — I wrote…

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Is woman with cloned pups the ’77 kidnapper of LDS missionary? – A former beauty queen whose obsession with an LDS Church missionary made international tabloid headlines 30 years ago appears to be the same woman who had her dog cloned in South Korea this week. [Deseret News LDS Feed] The link above has got to be the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. Crazy Mormon Dog-Cloning Dominatrix! Ha!