The Hyperlogos

Gawker Sucks. Please stop posting links from Gawker. Go down to the bottom of the article, visit the original URL which will give you better information than they will, read THAT, post THAT.

An LA Times investigative story about how the Gates Foundation is killing the people it claims to be helping.

Slashdot ("News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.") is the de facto geek news-forum website. People post links to articles and people argue about them.

Sci-Fi Weekly, a source for reviews and news on Sci-Fi media

I have installed the Quotes module. This system allows for displaying of random quotes. I'm not doing that right now, but you can search for quotes, add new quotes, and so on. I have the functionality to import quotes in an odd tab-delimited format, or in fortune file format. For reference, you can find fortune files by googling for "fortune datfiles". The debian repository CVS is a good place to download them individually.

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Today I enabled SSL on this host, using a self-signed cert. It's some $45/year to get a properly signed one, and I'm not sure it's really worth it, so I went ahead and self-signed. If I ever start taking credit card payments, and not just using paypal (once I even get ecommerce module working properly) then I'll probably change my mind.

Currently there is a fire going on near Highland Springs Reservoir in Lake county. The name of the incident is "Highlands" due to where it started.

Today I upgraded Drupal from 4.6.x to 4.7.x. This came with some special problems, but none of them were in drupal itself, but in modules. To wit, the ecommerce module summoned satan all over itself; it is using the new method in drupal where modules can create their own database tables, and it's not creating them all. I went so far as to disable all the modules, manually remove the tables, and then put the modules back in - which changed nothing. I wasn't actually selling anything anyway, so I went ahead and kept the upgrade.