BounceWeb is currently upgrading their servers, so MacMegasite & WorldBeatPlanet are both down right now. The upgrades should be finished this weekend. I’m also unable to receive email at both domains (and all of my email addresses except my domain mc-development.com are forwarded to my macmegasite IMAP account).
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Child advocates target prosecution of
Child advocates target prosecution of juveniles as adults
By Bill Kaczor The Associated Press Posted September 26 2002 PENSACOLA á Opponents of prosecuting children as adults have formed a national advocacy group in response to the trial of two Florida Panhandle boys convicted of killing their father. Under Our Wings was formed during a conference call Tuesday night among 19 participants from California to New York. “When we start prosecuting our children as adults, people know that something is wrong with that,” said the Rev. Thomas Masters, the group president. “Now the problem is, how do you fix it? That’s what we want to present.” Masters, pastor of the New Macedonia Baptist Church in Rivera Beach, became an advocate on the issue when a member of his congregation, 13-year-old Nathaniel Brazill, was prosecuted as an adult for fatally shooting a Lake Worth teacher in 2000. Brazill was sentenced when he was 14 to 28 years in prison for second-degree murder. The catalyst for the new organization, however, was the Pensacola trial three weeks ago of Alex and Derek King. They were 12 and 13 when their father, Terry King, 40, was beaten to death with an aluminum baseball bat on Nov. 26. Firefighters found the body inside the family’ burning home in nearby Cantonment. Many Under Our Wings members have been circulating a petition urging that the brothers, convicted of arson and second-degree murder without a weapon, be sentenced “as the children that they are rather than as the adults that they are not.”BounceWeb is having trouble with
BounceWeb is having trouble with their SQL server for a change, so I moved the database for MacMegasite to another server. It’s more difficult to maintain that way, but seems to run more reliably. I may have to do the same with WorldBeatPlanet, but I don’t think the server can handle two active MySQL databases for different sites.
I'm trying out Chimera 0.5
I’m trying out Chimera 0.5 now. It’s actually a nice, usable web browser. It could end up being my main browser.
New Site Features. I've activated
New Site Features. I’ve activated a few new features in PHP-Nuke 6.0 to make this site more friendly & useful. [MacMegasite]
I enabled the journal feature, which allows registered members to add their own journal entries. I’ll see how that works out.I've upgraded MacMegasite to Nuke
I’ve upgraded MacMegasite to Nuke 6.0. The upgrade went very smoothly with minimal disruption.
OK, I moved the database
OK, I moved the database for MacMegasite back to the main server without any disruption.
I’m now uploading the 6.0 files to a temporary area, and as soon as the traffic dies down I’ll move them into place and run the upgrade scripts.MacMegasite was mentioned on MacSurfer,
MacMegasite was mentioned on MacSurfer, which brought a lot of traffic. They pointed to my story about Cisco’s new Aironet drivers, and the last time I checked that story was read 99 times.
I’ve been experimenting with PHP Nuke 6.0. I copied an image of the site to my G3 and installed 6.0. So far, everything seems to work OK, and I’ve updated all of the themes. As soon as there’s less activity on the site, maybe later tonight, I plan to update it. At the same time, I’m also moving the SQL database back to the site server, since their problems seem to have been fixed.I just got a letter
I just got a letter from Firestone – the tires on my new 2003 Corolla have been recalled. I checked and I do have the affected serial number. Now I have to arrange to get them replaced.
NYT. "High-Altitude Rambos" The security
NYT. “High-Altitude Rambos” The security insanity continues. This is a wild tale of how things done in the name of security can potentially be as dangerous as what it attempts to prevent.
r. Bob Rajcoomar, a U.S. citizen and former military physician from Lake Worth, Fla., found himself handcuffed and taken into custody last month in one of the many episodes of hysteria to erupt on board airliners in the U.S. since the Sept. 11 attacks….
“We have to take a look at what we’re doing in the name of security,” said Dr. Rajcoomar. “So many men and women have fought and died for freedom in this great country, and now we are in danger of ruining that in the name of security.” Hear, hear!