By Daniel | Sunday, March, 26th, 2006
In one of the largest demonstrations in Los Angeles history over 500,000 people, most Latino, gathered in the streets. In Denver over 50,000 people protested. Milwaukee had about 10,000 demonstrators. Phoenix, 20,000. This was the scene in Chicago. All of these people, and more around the country, gathered to protest congressional bill HR 4437, a [...]
Many in the WordPress community have noticed that when one upgraded to WordPress 2.0, one of the side-effects, was that the comment counter on new posts (and some existing posts) would be constantly set to “0″. I have found a fix for this, quite by mistake I must admit:
If you’re using Spam Karma2, download and [...]
By Daniel | Wednesday, March, 22nd, 2006
“He is known as a microbe in society, and he should be cut off and removed from the rest of Muslim society and should be killed,” - Prosecutor Abdul Wasi
The Chicago Tribune reported yesterday about Abdul Rahman, an Afghan man who left Islam and became a Christian. For those who don’t know, Conservative Muslims [...]
By Daniel | Monday, March, 20th, 2006
Good morning, everyone. I know it’s only Monday morning, and those of you reading from the east coast are probably just now beginning your morning routine, but we already have the mostly likely Idiot of the Week.
This week’s lucky chap is Ric Piffero from Ukiah, California. In an article featured in today’s “The Press Democrat, [...]
By Daniel | Friday, March, 17th, 2006
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, all!
Forget where I heard it, but there’s a great quote that goes something like, “It’s every Irishman’s duty to keep the Guinness family in business.”
And it is with that thought in mind, that Keli and I will make it our solemn duty tonight to consume large quantities of Irish Car [...]