Don't Back Down

The Internet is a pretty interesting phenomenon. It often seems that once something is published on the Internet - and published is a very loose term, often applying simply to email that appears to be from a source of authority - it becomes gospel.

Let's look at the most recent entry. The power blackouts of the Northeastern US (and parts of Canada) resulted in a number of blogs pointing out this alleged picture of the US as seen from space on the night of 8/14. There's at least one site taking this picture one step further and claiming that it is evidence of an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse). Of course, this site apparently sells emergency survival supplies, so it's naturally in their best interest.

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When I actually went to implement MT-SomeDays, I found some problems.

First was a non-numeric message when using the <$MTSDWorkDate$> tag when used in conjunction with the format option. It would actually work correctly, so long as your format pattern did not include hours minutes or seconds, but it would return messages.

Read "MT-SomeDays 1.1.0" »

My aggregator of choice, Bloglines, continues its evoluationary journey to world domination. Recently the site introduced yet another new feature. This one allows me to share my subscriptions with you. This way if you'd like to know what I'm reading, you can find out at any time. And yes, I do subscribe to my own feed. As if you don't subscribe to yours.