This is another test. NetNewsWire doesn't seem to be picking up my new categories.

Update: After removing and adding the weblog it works again.

Here's another article from The Smoking Gun on Pete Townshend I should have linked earlier. It includes an essay he wrote a year ago about how shocked he was at finding Child Porn on the Internet by accident and how a friend of his was sexually abused as a child and she recently committed suicide. This combined with his work for Children's charities and the article I posted earlier convince me of his innocence.

Forbes: "How does Keynote stack up against PowerPoint? The snapshot summary of our head-to-head user test of the two programs is that they fundamentally do the same thing, and do it well, but Keynote does it with a superior elegance and simplicity of use that is Apple's design trademark."

Here's an interesting article. It appears that Pete Townshend wasn't lying and is innocent. Supposedly he was in contact with the Internet Watch Foundation and was reporting these things. The IWF initially denied that they had been in contact with him, but now they have admitted they did and Pete has email evidence to back it up.

I really hope this is true, Townshend really doesn't seem like the kind of person who would do that kind of thing. At least I hope not.

Here's a great find! To be sung to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It".

If you cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq.
If the markets are a drama, bomb Iraq.
If the terrorists are frisky,
Pakistan is looking shifty,
North Korea is too risky,
Bomb Iraq.

If we have no allies with us, bomb Iraq.
If we think someone has dissed us, bomb Iraq.
So to hell with the inspections,
Let's look tough for the elections,
Close your mind and take directions,
Bomb Iraq.

It's "pre-emptive non-aggression", bomb Iraq.
Let's prevent this mass destruction, bomb Iraq.
They've got weapons we can't see,
And that's good enough for me
'Cos it's all the proof I need
Bomb Iraq.

If you never were elected, bomb Iraq.
If your mood is quite dejected, bomb Iraq.
If you think Saddam's gone mad,
With the weapons that he had,
(And he tried to kill your dad),
Bomb Iraq.

If your corporate fraud is growin', bomb Iraq.
If your ties to it are showin', bomb Iraq.
If your politics are sleazy,
And hiding that ain't easy,
And your manhood's getting queasy,
Bomb Iraq.

Fall in line and follow orders, bomb Iraq.
For our might knows not our borders, bomb Iraq.
Disagree? We'll call it treason,
Let's make war not love this season,
Even if we have no reason,
Bomb Iraq.

CNET has an article that Opera wants to abandon the Mac platform because of Safari. It sounds like they are just giving up here. A bunch of whiners if you ask me. Their product isn't very good on the mac and people don't use it now either. Maybe if they made a good mac app that is up to par with others (Chimera, Safari, Omniweb) they could compete. It seems like they are just using Apple as a scapegoat for their own problems.

The part that is really crazy is that they have given Apple the offer of their engine to replace kHTML in Safari. Why would Apple do that? They have just made kHTML good why would they switch now. Thats crazy. It seems like they are saying "Apple, pay us and use our product or we're leaving". What a bunch of sore losers.

I'm testing multiple categories from NetNewsWire Pro.

This interesting article talks about a new Apple word processor to challenge Microsoft Word. I really hope this happens, especially if they get get full .doc computability. They announced Keynote, their presentation software, at Macworld. It looks like a direct competitor to PowerPoint. I hope they compete with the others as well.

I'm testing a post from NetNewsWire Pro.

Update, it looks like it worked. I can edit all old posts and assign categories. Pretty cool. It works nicely with the RSS reader part as well.

Well Microsoft's marketing department sure is good. Remember Palladium - Microsoft's 'secure' computing initiative that would essentially give them control of our applications and files on our computer? Well for some reason they decided that name wasn't suitable for such an over-bearing and over-controlling technology that is a big over-reaction. No, they didn't call it something appropriate like "Operation Overlord" or "Operation Enduring Lack of Freedom" or maybe "1984". No, Microsoft isn't that clever. Instead of all the cool names they could have choose (hell, Palladium was even mildly cool) they choose a buzzword filled sentance. Yes thats right their new code name is... ready for it... this will blow you away... "next-generation secure computing base."

Whoa, I don't know about anyone else but that codename really knocked my socks off. Not only is it stylish, but its so darn catchy! Doesn't it just roll off your tongue! And look at that innovation! Microsoft has innovated with the first eleven syllable code name in computing history! Thank god they won their "right to innovate" in the case against the US Justice Department or else we wouldn't see such amazing nomenclature.

Lets go through the amazing words that make up this amazing name.

Next-Generation: Well, this is really two words hyphenated together, but its still pretty cool. I guess it is suppose to make people think that their technology is that of the future, kind of like people giving 110% effort. I just think of Star Trek.

Secure: Well thats what they want you to believe. All the little consumers will willingly pay their money and have their lives taken over by Microsoft and the RIAA for the sake of their security. In reality the only security Microsoft cares about is how secure their profit flow is.

Computing: Not much to say here. Obviously it is a computing thing. Microsoft makes computer products don't they?

Base: So Microsoft is going to be the base of my computer? This tells me that they are going to have control over anything that goes on top of the base.

OK, now that I've met my sarcasm quota for the night I can be serious. What are they thinking? Their marketing department should really be fired. Not to mention the fact that Palladium (I'm still going to call it that) is far from secure. In the CNET article there is a quote by an employee in "Microsoft's Windows Trusted Platform Technologies Group" (another great name!!!) where he says essentially that they wanted to change the name because it was tarnished by controversy. Well thats smart, except this name will still be tarnished by controversy since they haven't made any attempt to fix the problems.

Congratulations Microsoft on creating the worst code name ever!

In other news a worm that infects Microsoft's SQL server is still worming its way around the net wreaking havoc as it goes. Monopolies suck.

Wired: " Kasparov, the chess grandmaster beaten in a match by computer Deep Blue six years ago, said Thursday he is proud to represent humanity in the latest battle of man vs. machine."

Is chess really the best game in which to test artificial intelligence? It seems that if a computer is given enough time it could predict every possible situation and could thus win every time. A real test of intelligence and capabilities would be in a kind of real world scenerio where humans use their intuitions and simply react. In a real world situation the human brain doesn't go through all the available possibilities then pick the best one. Automatically we rule out a lot of them then decide on the best.

I'm looking into adding alternate stylesheets to the site. This will allow a different user to use a different theme. The tutorial here looks like a good one to follow.

Categories are up now. I love Movable Type.

Comments are finally working correctly! I had to install some more perl stuff onto the server that told it to refresh the pages properly. I received great help from the community here and then in another thread here.

Now when a comment is posted and you reload the page it will show an updated number in the comments (n) link!

Now I need to figure out categories.

The New York Times reports that Hilary Rosen, the head of the RIAA is going to step down. I don't know if this is good or bad thing. Probably some one else like her will just take her place.

As Wired reports, The RIAA now wants to make ISPs accountable for their customers trading music. That's crazy.

One good point in the article comes from anonymous "industry official":

"It's horrible. Anything we can do that's effective will seriously annoy our customers," said one industry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"I think we might need to stop fighting fire with fire and figure out something new to do, or we will end up with lots of ex-customers who swap files just out of spite."

At least someone in there has a brain.

It seems I've fixed the comments problem, I'll see if it works now.

Update It isn't fixed.

Update 2 It seems that when I edit the post the comments counter updates. Hmmm.

The comments link at the bottom of each post doesn't seem to be updating when a new comment is posted. Maybe I messed up the javascript somehow.

Well finally I have the new Movable Type version up! Its not perfect yet, but its much better than before. One big thing I'm having a problem with is importing my old Blogger posts. Movable Type should do it for me, but of course when you want technology to work, it doesn't. For now I'll put a link to the old archives on the main page and they can be browsed from there, the only bad thing is that they wont take advantage of the search and calendar functions, and they will use the old template.

Anyway, if anyone finds any bugs please let me know. Suggestions on the template are welcome as well. I haven't finished the design yet, but I thought I might as well put it up as the main page anyways.

Since I can't get Movable Type to import my old Blogger archives I have to just link to them. I have now put them here. Hopefull things will be more elegant in the future.

Here's another entry just to get more content on the page. I want to bring more colour into the page. I also need to get categories working. I can set a category, but I need to find the right tag to put it into the page where I want it. Theres a lot of documentation for the system that I haven't read yet. I'm also going to try the extended Entry thing.

Here's another entry just to get more content on the page. I want to bring more colour into the page. I also need to get categories working. I can set a category, but I need to find the right tag to put it into the page where I want it. Theres a lot of documentation for the system that I haven't read yet. I'm also going to try the extended Entry thing.Here's another entry just to get more content on the page. I want to bring more colour into the page. I also need to get categories working. I can set a category, but I need to find the right tag to put it into the page where I want it. Theres a lot of documentation for the system that I haven't read yet. I'm also going to try the extended Entry thing.Here's another entry just to get more content on the page. I want to bring more colour into the page. I also need to get categories working. I can set a category, but I need to find the right tag to put it into the page where I want it. Theres a lot of documentation for the system that I haven't read yet. I'm also going to try the extended Entry thing.

Here's another entry just to get more content on the page. I want to bring more colour into the page. I also need to get categories working. I can set a category, but I need to find the right tag to put it into the page where I want it. Theres a lot of documentation for the system that I haven't read yet. I'm also going to try the extended Entry thing.

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THis is a test entry to see how the templates look with lots of text. This system is somewhat confusing. It was hard to get it set up to go into the correct directories at first. The template system is a little confusing as well, however it should be better in the long run, since Movable type is much more flexable and powerful. Now that the server can run CGIs properly I can have better systems like this.

I will change the main site over from Blogger very soon.

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