My Pet Jawa 3.0 Beta is here. It now features a Jawacast (Jawa Podcast). There’s no podcast there yet however. There’s still some navigation issues with the menu at the top of the site. If you click one of them (Jawacast for instanct), and then click on the “Home” link from the Jawacast page, you get a 404. Looks like it’s a permalink problem.
Overall I like it a lot. Still a few bugs to get worked out but I’m sure they’ll get them taken care of soon. This is the first re-desgin of My Pet Jawa I’ve witnessed. I wasn’t reading them yet last time they did a site overhaul. A welcome sight upon Rusty’s return from vacation.
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I don’t really like this theme anymore. I feel limited by it somehow. I will be switching themes off and on for the next few weeks maybe. Trying to find something I like and that’s highly adaptable.
I really, really like the White as Milk theme just because it’s so clean and simple. I alread used that for the official Purfoods website though.
The Zen Minimalist theme is also quite appealing to me, along with the Oxymod theme.
Really though, I think I’ll end up going with a modified version of the Identification Bands theme. The two column version. The only thing I don’t like about that theme is the image for the background. I’m probably gonna modify that theme to make it a little “less” what it is. The blue doesn’t really appeal to me as it makes text in textareas hard to read.
Anyway, it’s gonna be one of the themes listed above, assuming I don’t come across something else. The theme I’m currently using take a little too long to load. I’m mostly looking to have a plainer theme and improved loading times.
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Last Tuesday (July 26th), our network at work went totally down. Turned out a really old hub crapped out. Tuesday isn’t a good time for that to happen. It’s the last day that Mom’s Meals clients can call in orders for their next deliveries. In other words, it’s wicked busy. Ashley and her co-workers are busy entering the orders they’ve taken. Orders are of course entered into a database via a custom application.
They obviously can’t enter orders while the network is down. We were probably set back about 2 hours by the whole thing. Anyway, I quickly got a temporary network up so the girls could at least enter their orders. Then, after determining that the router wasn’t the cause, I removed one really old hub from the picture and things started looking better.
I headed off to staples to pick up a Linksys EtherFast® 4124 24-Port 10/100 Ethernet Switch. Before we had this, some people’s pc’s were hooked into the router. Others were in that old hub. Now, the only cables going to the router come from the modem and go to the new Linksys switch. Two CAT-V cables going to the router, that’s it. What’s really nice is everyone is now on a 100Mbit network. And everyone is on the Linksys switch.
I also discarded a bunch of unused cables that didn’t seem to serve any purpose other than adding to the clutter. I wish we didn’t have to have all that stuff in the packing room. Ideally, it would be up here in the office somewhere. They wouldn’t get unplugged all the time if it was all up here.
Oh, I’m claiming my feedster. Dun bother clicking that link. And one more time.
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I hadn’t read this before heading over to Clarity and Resolve this afternoon. It seems, despite much opposition from the left, that President Bush has appointed John Bolton as U.N. ambassador. I love what Patrick at Clarity and Resolve said about this:
You know what I like about Bolton, kuffar? I bet you do. I like that he doesn’t like the U.N. Time to wake up and smell the Kofi.
That man is funny. Kevin at Wizbang also seems to think Kofi should be worried by Bolton’s arrival. I hope Kevin and Patrick are right.
Bush appointed Bolton in a recess appointment. That means Bolton will be ambassador until a newly elected congress takes office in the summer of 2007.
Captain Ed over at Captains Quarters adds that Senator Chris Dodd “tried a last-minute rhetorical block on Bolton’s appointment, warning the White House that a recess appointment would mean that Bolton does not have the “confidence of Congress” in his new position”. He’s also got a link to other recess appointments by recent presidents.
I hope Bolton at least attempts to stir up the U.N. They desperately need someone there to clean stuff up and expose those who profit from the U.N.’s actions. It’d be great if Bolton could do that, but I wouldn’t count on it.
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