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Donald Rumsfelf is in town. You wouldn’t know it, not by the number of police floating around the Central Business District. Motorcycle cops on the corner near Adelaide High School. Other cars driving around the streets. And I haven’t even been down North Terrace yet… I am more than a little annoyed that we have been forced to virtually shut down the hub of our city, for a man that has been involved in several of the evil regimes that have run the USA in recent decades. Clearly, Bumsford is a smarter man than his current boss (but I can’t think of too many people who aren’t, just quietly), but he has had his fingers in some pretty seriously smelly pies. In 1976, Ruttfield was instrumental in ensuring the US was safe from swine flu. He urged the president at the time to instigate a vaccination process. The US was safe from swine flu – but 52 people died from contaminated vaccine. Unfortunately, now the US is governed by swine. It’s a shame the vaccine didn’t work against Bush. Oh well. The biggest irony of Roomseld’s career is that he was a significant contributor to Saddam Hussein’s build of military might. During the Iran-Iraq war, Rumbleford was, according to Wikipedia, “the main conduit for crucial American military intelligence, hardware and strategic advice to Saddam Hussein.” So Rimspot was at least in part responsible for helping to create the regime he and his mate’s son have now worked so hard to bring down. Or rather, try to bring down. (Chop off the head and the serpent falls? Doesn’t seem like it to me.) I think the scariest thing about Roamstick is that he seriously believes that he, a member of Team America, really is part of the World Police. Now, it scares the heck out of me that those guys from Southpark are just right on the money. America! Fuck Yeah! Update: My sub-editor tells me his name is Donald Rumsfeld. Sorry for any inconvenience or misunderstanding caused. P.S. The whole idea for the spelling games was a typo the first time I wrote his name. Not that funny, I know…

Ronan has fixed the monthly archive issue on Blogsome. That is, you can now affix page/2/to any URL (or at least I haven’t found one where it doesn’t work!), and it will show any items that are not in the top 10 (by default, changable in settings). This also works for page/n/ in general. This used to work only for the main page and categories. It now works for monthly, yearly and daily archives. The rule Ronan has used is nicer than my 3 – in that there is just one line for all three cases (as far as I can tell):

RewriteRule ^blogs/([_0-9a-z-]+)/([0-9]{4})/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?page/([0-9]+)/?$ /wp-inst/index.php?wpblog=$1&year=$2&monthnum=$3&day=$4&name=&paged=$5 [L]

I’ll post this to the Blogsome Forums later today.

I’ve been working with one of the Blogsome Admins to try and fix the Archive Pages bug (nearly there, I hope), and he came across an interesting ‘bug’. If you use a URL that looks like: http://schinckel.net////2/ You get a page that has only post titles.

“Dark Crystal” Sequel In The Works (May 14th-15th, 2005) – Dark Horizons Jaq will be stoked. The Dark Crystal is possibly the best Henson thing ever created.

I only just noticed this one today. Depending on the file format you add as an attachment to Mail.app, it’s possible to resize the image directly from the Compose window: This works with JPEG, PDF, PNG and possibly others. The toolbar will only appear if the image is large enough to bother with a potential resize, however. And the most interesting thing is that a resize changes the format to JPEG from PDF. And, you can set the popup menu to a value, and each new image you drag will be resized as per the popup. Sometimes, you can revert back to the original file format by choosing Actual Size, but at least once this didn’t work for me.

No words. Just let these talk for themselves:

Something is either wrong with Tiger’s Finder DVD burning, or Xbox Media Centre’s DVD reading. Any DVDs I burn from a Burn Folder in Tiger will not work properly on the Xbox. The disc name is reported fine by Xbmc, and the first track will play if the disc is inserted (and autoplay is turned on), but no tracks are reported as being there by the browser. Toast-burned DVDs work fine, and all burned DVDs work on the iMac itself, or on a PC. Very frustrating in that I don’t do this often enough to remember, so I keep having to re-burn discs so I can watch them on the Xbox. I can’t wait to finish the house and have my home network all hooked up again. Having to burn a movie back to CD/DVD just to watch it is very frustrating… (All of my DVDs are packed away in storage, and I cannot be bothered opening up boxes to try and find the one I’m looking for).

Forty Faces Nice idea. I’ve submitted my mugshot…

Three posts I posted over the past week or so each received some Trackback Spam today: The bizarre thing is that the URI of each of them is http://spam.com Which is the SPAM (ie, the food, Spiced Ham!) homepage.

I came across an interesting bug in iCal/Missing Sync/PalmOS the other day. It seems that PalmOS does not like the first character of a field to be the null character (\0). Having such a character in a field is okay if you are just viewing a record, but if you edit such a record you will get a nasty crash. It actually took me quite some time to figure out what was going on, but more importantly, how to fix it. I was lucky in a sense, as the records I was having issues with were all Contacts (Address Book entries). To begin with I thought it was a problem with Agendus, and I tried reinstalling all of my data and applications. No good. Eventually I figured out what was actually going on. As far as I can tell, it all came from the import of data I did a week or so ago. Except that at least one record other than these was also affected. To solve it was simple. Drag the affected records out of Address Book and then drag the generated file back in. Apparently Address Book’s Export As vCard has better data checking than the import. Come to think of it, it may have been the ABImporter I used.