General

Before I started working this morning I did a ‘cvs update’, as I do every morning. Unfortunately, the changes the other programmer merged in from the PC version of the project totally screwed me up. I’m still trying to clean up the mess.

New Macro:

on Weather\() \{

return \("<a href="http\:/\/www.wunderground.com/US/FL/Fort_Lauderdale.html"><img src="http\:/\/banners.wunderground.com/banner/gizmotimetemp/US/FL/Fort_Lauderdale.gif" alt="Click for Fort Lauderdale, Florida Forecast" height=41 width=127></a>"\);

}

I’m using it in my template now below the navigation links. If you use this, change it to your location.

I just made a minor fix to my theme to fix the width of the item template.

From Yahoo:

‘Harry Potter’ Prompts Police Boycott

PENRYN, Pa. (AP) – The police department has refused to direct traffic at a YMCA triathlon because it says the club promotes witchcraft by reading Harry Potter (news – web sites) books to children.

Penryn Fire Police Capt. Robert Fichthorn said the eight-member force voted unanimously to boycott the 20th running of the triathlon, scheduled for Sept. 7.

“I don’t feel right taking our children’s minds and teaching them (witchcraft),” Fichthorn said. “As long as we don’t stand up, it won’t stop. It’s unfortunate that this is the way it has to be.”

The Lancaster Family YMCA began reading chapters of the Harry Potter books to children enrolled in an after-school program in November.

In a letter to the township and the YMCA, Fichthorn challenged the religious integrity of the YMCA, and questioned whether it was “serving the will of God” in using the books.

Sheeeeesh! Are these people still living in the dark ages or what?

re: weather feed, i implemented one for xena a while back, and then extended it for a fellow espian… it’s available at http://talon.espians.com/weather

Here’s one I found:

alt=”Click for Fort Lauderdale, Florida Forecast” height=40 width=467>

Email from Phil Wolff:

Mazel Tov! You are hereby an honorary Jew!

This entitles you to all the yiddish you can utter, all the Jewish holidays, justification for your neuroses (if you don’t have any, we can recommend some), permission to hum tunes from Fiddler on the Roof, and a license to kvetch.

This does not, however, entitle or require you to participate in world jewish conspiracies, pogroms, holocausts, religious ceremonies, the Israeli draft, or the wealth of the Rothchilds, or your circumcision.

There are three books I’d recommend for newbies or wannabees: The Joy of Yiddish, Judaism for Dummies, and Haikus for Jews.

All the best.

– phil [Jeremiah’s Radio Weblog]

I could just plotz (I love that word :).

“look! cute little kittens! blogjam random kitten generator” [Daypop Top 40]

In the terminal window type:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Or just connect to towel.blinkenlights.nl with your favorite Telnet client. You’ll be treated to an ASCII version of Star Wars.

One thing I’ve been thinking about as I use Radio is that most weblogs are like a monologue. We can quote or link to another entry, but we can’t reply directly to an entry or start a discussion in a weblog. There should be some way to post comments in a Radio weblog.

Sorry I haven’t posted today. It’s been incredibly hectic with work, having to fax stuff to the mortgage company, and working on some web pages for a new client.