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Caroline Kennedy endorses Obama

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Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of president John F. Kennedy, endorsed Barack Obama in the New York Times:

Most of us would prefer to base our voting decision on policy differences. However, the candidates’ goals are similar. ,,, So qualities of leadership, character and judgment play a larger role than usual. …
And when it comes to judgment, Barack Obama made the right call on the most important issue of our time by opposing the war in Iraq from the beginning….

I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.

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Obama for President

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Dave Winer posted a link to this site with one of the best Obama graphics I’ve seen.

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I like Obama because I think he’s the candidate most likely to bring real change.

Hillary is not the least bit progressive. She simply goes along with the Republicans on almost everything. She’s also an insider yet has very little real experience. Being married to a former president doesn’t count as experience.

Obama, on the other hand, will bring a fresh perspective and will do more to improve the world’s opinion of us than anyone else.

More on the iPhone jailbreak

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iPhone Atlas warns that the 1.1.3 jailbreak may prevent official third party apps from working.

iPhone firmware 1.1.3 includes a mechanism for approving signed applications. Signed apps use private keys to authorize themselves for installation on the iPhone/iPod Touch. This gets damaged by the jailbreak, although it’s reversable. It does mean that official and unofficial third party apps won’t be able to co-exist.

Since there’s an official SDK coming soon, which will be available to everyone, there’s no reason the developers currently writing unofficial applications won’t switch to the SDK and release the same applications in a form that won’t require jailbreaking the iPhone.

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OLPC Software Update

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Since I got my XO laptop, I’ve been frustrated by its incompatibility with WPA encryption for wireless connections, since I have my home network set up for WPA. Aside from reducing the security, changing it would mean changing the settings of my wii, Airport Express, and Slingbox, which isn’t too convenient.

Digging around in the OLPC Wiki, I found that an unofficial software update to build 653 is available. I was able to get the XO online by temporarily turning on internet sharing with no encryption on my Mac Mini to install the update. After updating, the XO will now connect easily to my Airport Extreme and is able to go online

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Site Problems

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As some of you may have noticed, this site was having 500 internal server errors earlier this evening. WordPress was running out of memory, and it seemed to be plugin related. I moved all of the plugins out of the plugin folder and it started working again. By reinstalling plugins one at a time I was able to isolate the problem.

It turned out to be Alex King’s Twitter Tools. When I tried to enable it in the plugin page, WordPress reported a fatal error and didn’t enable it. I tried a different Twitter plugin, which seemed to work until got the same error when I published this post and it tried to send a tweet, The real problem was that somehow the PHP version reverted to 4.4.7 instead of 5.2.2 in Dreamhost’s domain control panel. Changing it back to 5.2.2 corrected the problem.

A new look for MacMegasite

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I switched to a new theme & logo at MacMegasite, and I also de-cluttered the sidebars. I’m still looking at more themes and working on the logo, so I may still change it if I find something I like better.

The last few days I’ve looked at a lot of WordPress & Drupal themes. Almost none of them are truly ‘ready to go’. I always find little bugs such as misaligned list items or conflicts with various modules. I also found that many of the WordPress themes that claim to be widget-ready really aren’t.