Even in 2009

I have this business trip I have to go on, and it turns out that it's to part of North America where you need a passport to get there and it doesn't have reliable internet service.

No, not Smackover, AR.

Anyway, that's why my blogging will be severely impaired the next 10-ish days. I have loaded some "best of" from me for the blog to keep you-all from dying of boredom. Try to go outside and see the people to whom Jesus wants you to do something other than worry about while I'm gone.

Annoying details

Pheh. So now I have the Blogrolling scripts back in the sidebar, and the League of Reformed Bloggers script is so slow that it actually interferes with the Flash headlines loading in the main body.

Anyone understand and able to explain how the PHP version of Blogrolling works, and how I can install it on this page?

Before you get all beta-testy ...

... I want you to look at this chart of stats for this blog, which is the browser mix of people headed in:



In very round and unscientific numbers, 97% of the readers of this blog come here using either MSIE, Firefox (good for you) or Safari (even better). You MSIE users still rankle me, but there you are.

This other chart is also very telling:



It doesn't really matter what platform you're coming in on. MSIE, Firefox, Safari.

Now, this is not to say that you malcontents who are using crazy software like Konqueror or Camino or Opera aren't beloved readers of this blog -- you are. But unless you are getting a giant red skull with flaming eyes screaming vulgarities at you when you load my page, I have really, really toiled to get this new template stable on the major platforms -- and it still needs work for those of you who don't have Flash 8 or better loaded. Please let's not take screen shots of what this looks like using Camino for Mac OS 10.1.X on a hooptied-up G3 iMac bondi.

For the record, I'm interested in readers using MSIE 6 with or without Flash, luddites using Safari 2.X rather than the 3.X beta, Windows users using Safari, MSIE 7 without Flash, anyone who cannot read the text over the right sidebar, and anyone who has design elements rendering in obviously-messed-up ways who is able to detail his or her system configuration.

I'm filing this under "problem of evil" for obvious reasons.

All or nothing

As a precursor to coming off hiatus, I am updating the blog template. Please make your complaints, comments and questions here.

I consider this version beta version 031. There are some things in the master .css file that I haven't gotten back around to fix, but the rest is about right.

Those without flash, or using IE 6, are going to have complaints. I am not sure I'm going to have sympathy yet.

More Inspections - Better Plans

3 video clips this morning, courtesy of Dave Dravecky and DGM.







Here's what I'm particularly interested in with these videos: notice that Dave, who has lost more than most of us will ever have, and has frankly been through more physically than most of us will ever suffer, has an interesting point of view about how to comfort those who are suffering right now, today.

Hot as Hiatus

Yeah, I'm sorta worn out from being on hiatus, but this is even more important than the ECM stuff going on all over the place.

Turns out that everything you know about Global Warming is wrong. I linked to the HotAir summary because it runs down all the details, but this is the biggest story of the last 10 years AFAIC. When the so-called "hockey stick" is demonstrably false, the rest of the "Global Warming" fraud is completely baseless. There's nothing there to believe.

I say we all eat brocolli and run our lawn-mowers tomorrow all day in celebration, and let the greenhouse gases be darned!

Ok, ok ...

What a terrible week to give up blogging, but this is really the last one:

Here we have a Mormon defending a Hindu as if either of them believes in the same god. It's just too much.

Somebody please blog this. Please.