It was raining when I went home for lunch today. When I left to head back to the office; the rain was mixed with snow. *blech* It’s still too warm out for the snow to do anything except melt the moment it touches down, but it’s a sign that we’ve truly moved into Winter. Bah humbug!
Month: November 2005
From Pukka:
- Jack Thompson fights to stay on the GTA cop killer trial
- What Gender Is Your Brain?
- How the Death Star Works
- Order of the Stick – Converting to 3.5
- Order of the Stick – The Polearm Shop
Not from Pukka:
I know posts have been sparse lately. Since loading Ubuntu Breezy (5.10) on my laptop; I’m working again on trying to get the sound up & running. I’m also documenting the process of getting it working; so hopefully I’ll have a useful post up soon.
If CoffeeBear.net has been acting wonky for you today; then you’ve probably caught me playing around with it trying to figure somethings out. I apologize for an inconvenience that this may have caused.
As you’ve probably noticed by now, I’ve found a work around to the plugin problems. From what I’ve been able to determine so far, the plugin is having problems calling in the Amazon product images for my sidebar. For now, I’ve reconfigured the plugin to display the text without images which seems to be mostly working though my sidebar is now getting tossed down to the bottom of the page. *sigh*
Update: Actually, it appears a different plugin is the source of the sidebar being shoved down. This other plugin adds in it’s own CSS; so I’ll be looking at that to try fixing the issue. Life is never easy.
Kansas education board downplays evolution
Risking the kind of nationwide ridicule it faced six years ago, the Kansas Board of Education approved new public-school science standards Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.
I don’t know why I feel somewhat surprised by this, but I am. I suppose, like many people, I expected there would be enough rational people on the Kansas Board of Education that the vote wouldn’t got this way. At least, that’s how I was looking at the issue until I got to this portion of the article:
All six of those who voted for the new standards were Republicans.
After all back in August, Dubyah endorsed the teaching of “Intelligent Design”. That should have been a sign that ID was nonense, but unfortunately it appears these board members voted along party lines rather than for what’s right.
*sigh* What a screwed up world we live in.