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30 seconds of fame
It may be a sad statement about our collective yearning for attention. Or it may be an innovative way to discover kindred spirits out there in the blogging world. I haven’t decided, but I did join Blog Explosion today out of curiosity. The deal is simple: you look at other people’s blogs and they will…
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Spontaneous Floorboard Perspiration
When I was living in a tent this summer I often experienced something that might be described as perspiration on the floor (though I always called it condensation). I’d never imagined any such thing could happen in a wooden house, though, much less underneath a heavy futon mattress. I thought we’d rented a far less…
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view-tags plugin
Since the Radical Wacko was nice enough to ask, I did write a WordPress Plugin to help create the post viewer form in my hoboview menu. WordPress comes with template tags for creating the category selector, but I had to make the date selector and sort order radio buttons myself. I also included a tag…
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hobolog makeover
I’ve added a few ideas for the hobolog that have been rattling around in my head for a while now. Something new to look at, a simplified post viewer on the right, a style-switcher so you can go back to the old look if you like. Please let me know if anything isn’t working properly.
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Movie: The Shape of Things
This movie ambitiously portrays an artist wielding the power of truth as a sculpting tool. It’s clearly an adaptation of a stage play, and has both gems and stinkers in the dialogue. It’s a thought-provoking film, but takes a pretty dismal view of people in general. Even the artist, the only one who sees the…
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Movie: Matchstick Men
This movie must have been inspired by the last great con-artist movie I saw, Nine Queens. This one, however, sports an obsessive-compulsive con man character – a stroke of genius. Nicholas Cage does such a good job with it, I started to twitch and fidget in sympathy. It makes an interesting story into an absolute…
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Comments are back
Thanks to some good tips from the Radical Wacko, the hobolog is now armed with spam-fighting software that should post real comments immediately, while suppressing and doing battle with spam comments.
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Movie: Shall We Dance? (American version)
This was a good movie to catch at the $2 matinee with my dad and Sarah, who left the theater waltzing. It’s goofy, but fun. If you’re a ballroom dancer, you probably won’t be able to help enjoying yourself. It also manages to do a little real exploration of how personal change might affect an…
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Movie: The Bourne Identity
Good, for a Hollywood action movie. It’s not nearly as philosophical as it could be with the story setup, but the theme of self-exploration leading to shock and denial is interesting enough to give power to the standard evil government project coverup plot.
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Safe World
Today I heard President Bush say on the radio, “A free Iraq will make the world safe.” The number of U.S. troops who have died in combat topped 1,000 today.