WordPress 2.0 Beta 2 is out now. I upgraded yesterday while I was at home. I fucked up my wordpress database a little earlier this morning. Had to revert back to a slightly older database to get WordPress back to functional state.
Some pretty weird shit has been going on around here lately. A new PHP version is out, which seems to totally kill WordPress.
Mint 1.23 is out. I upgraded recently from the previous stable version, 1.14. The upgrade hasn’t exactly gone well. My stats aren’t updating at all. Waiting on a resolution for this still.
There’s supposed to be a new version of this WordPress theme out soon. Hari will be updating the theme to fix the sidebar issue in Internet Explorer. He seems to think he’s got a fix in place already.
I’ll be blogging regularly again this weekend, hopefully tonight once I get all these little issues worked out. There’s been a lot going on that I need to catch up on.
Sorry for the lack of posting lately. We started moving our office over the weekend. Being the tech guy I had a ton of work to doy. So, I spent basically the entire weekend getting all setup in the new office.
We’re moved in now and are still getting situated. I’ve got a few pictures I’ll post when the whole thing is complete. I ducked out a little bit early today just because I got the chance to do so. Don’t expect many posts for the rest of the week unless I see something at night that really deserves attention.
I updated my local development WordPress branch last night via subversion to find the version had been bumped up to “2.0-beta-1″. So, this site is running beta wordpress code now. I had been running the latest subversion code until 1.5.2 was released. I decided I wasn’t gonna use code from the devel branch until it hit beta. So here we are.
I was waiting on 1.6, but 2.0 works too. I haven’t noticed any issues yet. All my plugins even seem to be working correctly. I really love the new and improved dashboard. And my current theme works as it did before with no problems. I definately noticed beta1, as did a coupleother bloggers, and probably a lot more. There’s a discussion about the beta going on at the WordPress support forums. There’s already some pretty large lists of compatible plugins. I’ll write more about this later, along with a few other related items. I’m goin to bed now.
Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) is calling for an immediate withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. All the talk about Iraq deadlines and withdrawal dates recently must have the white flag industry here in the U.S. in a frenzy.
The comments by the Pennsylvania lawmaker, who has spent three decades in the House, hold particular weight because he is close to many military commanders and has enormous credibility with his colleagues on defense issues. He voted for the war in 2002, and remains the top Democrat on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.
Now, being such a highly respected member of the defense community, I’d expect him to put some thought into the consequences of our leaving Iraq immediately. Maybe he’s perfectly aware of possible consequences, but if he was I don’t think he’d have made that speech.
How would the troops serving in Iraq feel if we left immediately and in 3 months there’s another Saddam in place? Or even worse, one of the various radical muslim groups could take total control of the country. In either case, say buh-bye to the Kurds as an ethnic group.
Democrats will keep on pressuring the Bush administration to set deadlines until we’re totally out of Iraq. The entire world is in for a hell of a trip when democrats take control of congress and the white house again. I just hope they’re bright enough to realize what they’ve done shortly after they decide to let the islamo-nutjobs reign free. This isn’t a war in Iraq, it’s a war against an idea that growing numbers of muslims worldwide adhere to. That’s it, no way around it. I realize that it’ll take four or five different administrations before some democrats will acknowledge that.
I’m not sure we need to worry about these speeches encouraging the likes of Bin Laden and Zarqawi. I think we should worry more about this sort of thing getting really popular among Democrats and those who oppose the war on terror. Hopefully it won’t encourage the other lefties to really start whining and actually get something done in terms of some sort of troop pullout.
James Joyner of Outside The Beltway has a freakin huge post about Murtha’s speech. He’s got clips from major news outlets. He’s got clips from bloggers. Probably won’t get much better than his post if you’re looking for a roundup.
Professor Bainbridge thinks Iraq is a huge mistake and that leaving now would only compound that error. I can relate to that mentality somewhat though. I’ve come to the conclusion for myself though that going into Iraq was for the good of everyone. Waiting would have just provided more opportunity for attacks in the U.S. If we’re successful in establishing a totally self-contained, self-supported democracy in Iraq, it’ll be a key country in attacking radical muslim terrorists throughout the middle east.
Confederate Yankee has an update stating that Murtha said pretty much the same thing last year. Well, these statements are more likely to encourage a possibly damaging upheaval from Democrats. Maybe they’ll take a hostage. heh.
Brian over at Iowa Voice is noticing this theme too:
Seems like a theme of late, really. A so-called “party leader” comes out and says we must withdraw from Iraq “NOW!”, or face certain defeat. It must have been Representative John Murtha’s turn with the memo
Oh, and Mudville Gazette says the numbers Murtha used in his speech are misleading, sorta:
There have indeed been over 15,500 wounded. But of those, 8375 returned to duty within 72 hours – so although those wounds weren’t funny perhaps those wounds weren’t quite serious either. Still, 7347 troops have been wounded severely enough to require over 72 hours recuperation.
A lot of unscrupulous types who just want to pretend to “support the troops” ignore these facts in favor of the less correct (and more impressive) claim that 15,500 troops have been seriously wounded, or maimed, or mutilated. The real numbers are big enough – I just can’t understand why some feel the need to pad them.
Again, the key here is simply the fact that the war is against an idea, not Iraq or any specific geographic location.
Oh, in a related update, Dr. Rusty Shackleford is back to blogging. I think he doesn’t remember the nation being so “wobbly” a couple months ago. The amount of wobbly is the same, it’s just being screamed now, where it was shouted previously.
Open Source Media is a blog advertising project whose name has been the subject of debate lately. Basically, seven people who do radio shows 4 times a week also use the name “Open Source Media.” The radio guys make extensive use of bloggers as their “in-house” experts:
A joint production of Open Source Media Inc. and the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Open Source is presented by WGBH Radio Boston and distributed by Public Radio International (PRI).
What this means is that we are seven people in a rented office with, incidentally, a rather bold mouse who does not yet have a name. We make a radio show four times a week that uses bloggers as local and topical experts; this show is distributed to public radio stations by Public Radio International, and to truckers and early adopters by XM satellite radio.
Now, the blog ad project formerly called Pajamas Media is using the name “Open Source Media.” The blog ad project has a note on their website stating that the radio guys are going to allow the new OSM use of the opensourcemedia.net domain. Using “Open Source Media” as a company name seems like a stupid idea, it’s too general. It’d be like “FoxNews” changing it’s name to “TheNews.” When I hear “open source media”, I think of news providers who are more local and not so mainstream. But, whatever. To each their own. Oh, and I’ve made quite a few changes to this post. I think my original wording was causing some confusion. No, there was absolutely NO confusion on this end. :)
Oh, and I should note, Allah was MIA at the Open Source Media launch party.
