No, really.

Pictures.

That are current.

Posted. On this site.

Yes, at long last we’ve actually got some current pictures of the girls up.

A couple of sets of shots from various birthday parties.

Plus some current fashion modeling (she’s dressed as a witch in case that isn’t immediately obvious). Please note, the hat, wand, broomstick, boots (so the dragon doesn’t burn her feet), wings (to help her fly), and purse (for holding magic things). By far the most accessorized kid at the playground…

Also, some browsers (cough, internet explorer, cough) apparently have some problems with the code that wraps the photos.  So until I get that figured out, if you get file-not-found errors, you can skip directly to the pictures (or upgrade your browser).

With apologies to Harper’s

• 6 - Number of people in 1,000-person U.S. embassy in Baghdad who can speak Arabic fluently.
• 46 - Percent of Americans surveyed who believe that Saddam was connected to the 9/11 attacks.
• 61 - Percent of Iraqis surveyed who approve of attacks on U.S.-led forces.
• 93 - Acts of violence for a single day in July in Iraq as reported by the U.S. military.
• 1,100 - Acts of violence that the Iraq Study Group found had actually occurred on that day.
• 100,000 - Number of Iraqis fleeing their country every month.
• 152,000 - Number of U.S. troops in Iraq.
• 100,000 - Number of U.S. government contractors in Iraq.
• $348,000,000,000 - Current cost to the U.S. of the war in Iraq.
• 2,935 - U.S. Service members killed in Iraq.

OK

So it’s taking a while, but slowly the site is beginning to get somewhere. Photos are getting organized and posted, I’ve got my music uploaded so that I can listen to it from work, and the all important fantasy scoreboards seem to be mostly working. I’ll get my 100Gb’s worth yet…

I still have to upload a few more pics and update some of the directory paths, but I think I finally found a workable database driven photo system. Upload a picture once, but post it into multiple albums. Store full resolution images, but show thumbnails, or sized copies. Plus the whole thing can be wrapped so that it keeps most of the look and feel of the main site. Still have to figure out how to get sub albums to show up better, but… For the nerdily inclined, I’m using PHPWebGallery and Photon. You can see the unwrapped view here.

The music is made accessable using mp3act. It is AJAX-tastic, but doesn’t have an easy wrapper into the rest of the WordPress site. I’ll see if I can’t rig something sometime. In a bid to not get sued by The Man, I’ve password protected that section. Let me know if you want a user account.

As for everything else, I’m using a modified version of the Equix theme on WordPress.  Random quotes are made possible by McQuote.  Tweaking is done using WordPress-phpMyAdmin and EZStatic.  Email notification written by Watershed Studios.  Theoretically you can read this on your blackberry because of something Alex King wrote.  And GoDaddy is letting me keep the whole thing on their servers for the next two years for about a dollar a Gb, which seems pretty reasonable now that everything is up and running.

Now, back to the lab…

If they had the internet on computers, we could read about…

• Bathing in oil. No, not a metaphor, actually sitting in a tub of lukewarm crude oil (insert Dick Cheney joke here).
• Crayon art. None of Ella’s crayons look like this.
• Two atheists offer to send messages for the faithful after the rapture.
• “Some of our personal sins include: drunkenness, heresy, sacrilige/blasphemy, gluttony, laciviousness, and sloth. There is no way we are going to disappear into Heaven any time soon.”
• Grow your own furniture or grow your own house. Either way - not for the impatient.
• If you are going to a party near the North Carolina beach, someone is already bringing chips.

Big news day for the large meat eating animals of the world. First there is the “incident” in Florida. Think what would happen to newspaper readership if all stories got to end with the sentence:

Investigators still have to figure out why Apgar, who police said was naked and smoking crack at the time of the attack, was attacked by the alligator. - link

Then there is the story from San Diego that a killer whale attacked her trainer during a show at Sea World. Apparently this is not the first time that this large seal-eating carnivore, locked in a small pool of water, has attacked one of the slow swimming bite-sized mammals that get into her tank.

Only one of these animals will be made into a pair of boots.

So who should play Oh How I Hate Ohio State for the no longer mythical National Championship come January 7th*

Is it:

• Team A - With an impressive 44-24 win over #6 Notre Dame.
• Team B - Which beat the same Notre Dame 47-21 and whose only loss is to #1 Ohio State.
  
• Team C - Which played the hardest schedule of any of the one loss teams.
  
• D - It doesn’t matter. Ohio State will beat whoever like they stole something.

The correct answer is E) Playoffs - Just like every other sport or NCAA division. For goodness sake, quit the charade and give us a (giant, money-making, hype-filled) 8 (or 4 or 16) team playoff.

Thank you.

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*The 7th?!? Are you kidding me? The 7th?

Things noticed in the aether…

• Some people sailing near Fiji witnessed the emergence of a volcanic seamount (remember, plate tectonics is just a theory). They took some cool pictures as they sailed through a sea of floating stones.
• A burrito and a sandwhich are two legally different food groups.
• Some people have decided to never work for The Man.
• Even at $20 million, trips to the International Space Station are sold out through 2009.

So here’s the deal.

The old site was full.

The old site was crash-tacular.

So I’ve moved. Or more acurately - am in the process of moving.

The old site is still alive. You can find it here if you miss your daily comics or something.
Eventually everything will be moved over here and it will be cool and stuff.

While you’re waiting for me to have enough double naps to get all the php and database stuff hooked up, go ahead and check out the new photo database. All the photos in all the resolution. I haven’t come up with a good gallery/filtering system yet, so it is a little like drinking from a firehose (a big cumbersome, slow moving firehose), but go ahead and poke around. Feel free to add information, descriptions and keywords to the database, but please don’t hit the delete button.

More to come…

The old future was clunky, running out of disk space, and had no rocket cars.

This is the New Future of the Interweb. It is a series of tubes!