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Re: Mullenweg: We don’t want cash…well, ok, maybe we’ll take some

Jesse — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:13:01 -0000

Funny how that works. We believed him, and think he was being genuine at the time, because we've followed him for some time now, and he talks rarely about money, always about vision.

You make him out to be some sort of crook for taking the funding. It's not like he's the first person to change their mind on funding, and it's understandable why so many do. People say they want to do it all themselves, and not take charity funding, or however you want to look at it, from VCs, but then the bills come, the expenses come, the staff payments come, and the money still isn't there.

There's only so many ways to go when that happens

Re: Countdown to 1000

Jesse — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:19:33 -0000

hm. Let's see if I can sneak the 1000th post. I think I still have posting privileges after sitting in here for a week, so I might get away with it....

kidding. I think that would get me banned from ever getting tech support from you again

Re: Generation Next: Digg vs. MySpace

Jesse — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:39:43 -0000

I'm not sure you can really compare myspace and digg.

Digg compares to deliocious, furl, newsvine, slashdot, and the like.

I think myspace is more of blogger/wordpress.com/livejournal and it's beating the tar out of all the others, while digg is getting more and more popular all the time, though newsvine might just start to compete once it goes live

Re: Generation Next: Digg vs. MySpace

Jesse — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:15:10 -0000

note to self: when starting a debate, don't just skim the article.

Yes indeed, I see that now.

I think, however, that Digg users tend to be older. I think you're looking more at 21-30ish rather than 13-21. There are endless 17 year olds obsessed with myspace, enough to fill it up. BUt there aren't that many obsessed with the latest Knoppix build or javascript-less ajax.

It'd be interesting to see the crossover between some of these social services/sites/apps

Re: Generation Next: Digg vs. MySpace

Jesse — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:18:09 -0000

edit: one thing that users of both often have in common is an extreme level of immaturity, poor spelling, and long boring flame wars...:)

Re: One Thousand Posts Later

Jesse — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:48:21 -0000

nice.

I just realized that I've been blogging for six months now (approx.)In that time at all my blogs combined I've probably done about 250 posts, so still quite a ways to go to get 1000 at any one blog....

Re: Multiuser WordPress Lyceum

Jesse — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:51:06 -0000

looks like a slightly crummier version of mu.

Re: Time Waster

Jesse — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:01:48 -0000

how do you put that in a page? I looked around yesterday but couldn't find anything

Re: Time Waster

Jesse — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:05:19 -0000

what the heck is with my favicon?

Re: Time Waster

Jesse — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:10:39 -0000

any way you could ship me the file? (gotta find a way to waste more time)

Re: Michael Chertoff is Not Gone

Jesse — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:01:09 -0000

hehe

Re: WP-Macros

Jesse — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:47:45 -0000

beautiful

Re: 10 Blogs: She Knows Best

Jesse — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:37:45 -0000

no wonder you look so snappy in your gravatar

Re: Multiuser WordPress Lyceum

Jesse — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:34:19 -0000

Aaron: that was a spam comment

Re: Life in our Solar System?

Jesse — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:35:07 -0000

oh brother...

Re: Multiuser WordPress Lyceum

Jesse — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:50:12 -0000

I am.

'blog' spelled 'blogg'- very common in spam (a google search gave me this
Spam always say "i am new" or "I'm a n00b" or "sorry, I'm new", etc.

feel free to leave it up, I don't mind

Re: Life in our Solar System?

Jesse — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:56:03 -0000

I personally am highly doubtful that there is any kind of life out there. It would take meeting an alternative life form in person for me to believe, and even then I would wonder.

1/1,000,000 is actually far too generous to put for the odds of a planet being able to support carbon-based life forms

Re: Life in our Solar System?

Jesse — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:23:17 -0000

How do I explain our planet? God.

That's an interesting idea, but there's a good reason why only a few people believe it, and that is because it's pretty much absurd

Re: Life in our Solar System?

Jesse — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:48:55 -0000

UPDATE: NASA has gone open source. good for them

Re: Life in our Solar System?

Jesse — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:22:49 -0000

that was a bit of a letdown

Re: Problogger Junior

Jesse — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:32:14 -0000

apparently ProBlogger is fast becoming a clique for those who are folically challenged, or wish they were

Re: Life in our Solar System?

Jesse — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:34:34 -0000

Aaron: have you considered the link truncator plugin?

Re: WordPress 2.0.2 Security Release

Jesse — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:06:40 -0000

ugh. it deleted all my pages. I'm still trying to decide if this was my fault (I did nothing abnormal) or bug report-worthy...

Re: WordPress Unattended Installs

Jesse — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:44:14 -0000

nice. at the rate we've rolled out blogs that could save us a ton of time.

I think I'm starting to get a very good idea of why Jeremy hired you :)

Re: Technosailor Bracketology

Jesse — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:13:50 -0000

brother? nephew? uncle? father? no relation?

Re: Technosailor Bracketology

Jesse — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:21:17 -0000

[Comment ID #4652 Will Be Quoted Here]

poor soul :)

Re: Technosailor Bracketology

Jesse — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:50:48 -0000

1. Is that your dad?
2. It's more like a hoard of mosquitos

Re: Technosailor Bracketology

Jesse — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:00:13 -0000

If I were brave I'd mention that I really like Duke, but I'm not brave enough to withstand the scorn of Aaron, so I won't, though I definitely hate UNC

Re: NCAA Tourney Picks

Jesse — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:22:19 -0000

wait a second, Gonzaga is the team with the 100th or so ranked defense. I would definitely call that a chink

Re: NCAA Tourney Picks

Jesse — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:30:12 -0000

McNamara is unbelievable, but I don't see him being able to single-handedly pull off a victory over one of the elite teams.

Re: NCAA Tourney Picks

Jesse — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:47:48 -0000

I don't know about OU, and I'm a big fan of theirs. They are capable of playing at a very low level and at a very high level. it's hit or miss

Re: Moodlerooms Meetup

Jesse — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:25:13 -0000

My last trip to the dentist I somehow, for the first time ever, developed a gag reflex, so it took twice as long...and hour of pure torment

Re: Firefox 2.0 Alpha- Take some from the oven

Jesse — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:04:51 -0000

The 2.0.a1 is NOT out yet and it is not a public release

Funny, firefox seems to disagree with you:

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8510/25zs.png

Re: Quote of the Day

Jesse — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:42:14 -0000

I....I don't even know what to make of that

Re: Bad Behavior

Jesse — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:50:35 -0000

akismet is amazing. I don't think I've ever had a legit comment get caught, and only very rarely does a spam get through

Re: 10 Blogs: Squib Kick

Jesse — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:03:04 -0000

well thank you.

nice to know I have one reader, anyways

Re: 10 Blogs: Secure That Computer

Jesse — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:38:57 -0000

You did that design, didn't you?

Re: 10 Blogs: Secure That Computer

Jesse — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:05:51 -0000

secure that computer. Or if you weren't the one, it was the same person who did emerging earth.

Re: Technorati Indexing MySpace Blogs

Jesse — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:19:21 -0000

are you sure about that?

Re: Online Feed Readers Reviewed

Jesse — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:36:41 -0000

bloglines is the only one I can stand. desktop readers are nice, but I like being able to open interesting entries in tabs...

Re: 15000 Strong

Jesse — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 21:04:05 -0000

Why not 200,000? Shoot high :)

Re: The Indie Virus- an experiment in viral campaigning

Jesse — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:06:27 -0000

yeah, that's definitely a more realistic figure, but 1.8 million just sounds so much more impressive

on technorati that gives you like 22 results, which is far too low.

Then again, technorati indexing has been crap lately

Re: The Indie Virus- an experiment in viral campaigning

Jesse — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:12:44 -0000

Chris, I was actually the one that wrote the entry.

I somehow missed that the "the" shouldn't be included, so yeah, that definitely effected things.

Google's results are usually 2/3 repeat results, but I don't know where they came up with the extra 12 1/2 thousand...

Re: Big Papi Ortiz Stays with the BoSox

Jesse — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:02:42 -0000

has agreed to a 4 year $48 million dollar contract extension with the Sox.

And people say football players are overpaid

Re: Big Papi Ortiz Stays with the BoSox

Jesse — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:55:20 -0000

yes, football players are overpaid, but people don't realize that their contracts aren't guaranteed. Heck, most people don't have a clue as to how NFL contracts work. Peyton Manning signs a 10 year 130 million dollar contract, and people go ballistic, but really he's going to make about 30 million the first year, then 5 million a year for a few years before they redo his contract.

OTOH, when a baseball player signs a three year 30 million dollar contract, he's probably going to play for three years at 10 million a year...

Re: Paint Job

Jesse — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:44:34 -0000

I was to lazy to make my blog work perfectly with IE, so I just put this in at the top:

Re: Paint Job

Jesse — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:23:46 -0000

I'm (supposedly) doing some work at the library...the computer's using IE 6, I'm pretty sure at 800 x 600. The whole site looks great except for the fact that on the main page the sidebar is dropping below the content. Probably fixed without too much work

Re: Paint Job

Jesse — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:34:55 -0000

ala A List Apart (no pun intended)

I did the same thing myself, because it's too much trouble, and because it's people's choice/responsibility to read my blog, not my responsiblity to make a blog customized to their needs and deliver it to them. If they want to hang around, cool, but if not I'm not going to kill myself over it

(like the Ajax comments, btw)

Re: Paint Job

Jesse — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:39:49 -0000

Eric- you're on Safari, correct? I think the problem is mainly an IE thing (huge surprise) and not as much a resolution thing, though it might display normally in IE at a normal resolution

Re: Heralds’ Sox Blog on WordPress

Jesse — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:32:52 -0000

I tried out textpattern on a test site and didn't really like it. I was going to install MT free to see what it's like, but after I saw the crapload of perl I'd have to wade through to install it I said forget it and stuck with wordpress.

Re: Technosailor Birthday Blitz

Jesse — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:10:17 -0000

Oooh. A birthday giveaway. Kind of like in one of those Lord of the Rings books where Bilbo's having a birthday, and gives presents to everyone who comes, not vice verca as it usually is....

Just to clarify- You take all comments between now and May 19th that are over 50 words, and then draw at random from them to see who wins?

Re: Digital Camera Shopping

Jesse — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:30:05 -0000

I sweary by Olympus. They've got great prices, and they're always really top quality. They seem to be one of the top makers of digital cameras, so it's usually not too hard to find a good deal on one somewhere in the Sunday ads. Usually Best Buy or Circuit City or someone will have some kind of special...

Kodaks tend to be kind of cheapy and not all that great. Canons are always a good choice

Re: Racism and Soccer

Jesse — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:16:58 -0000

It really is pretty sad how African Americans and Hispanics can complain about racism and how bigotted Americans are when you compare it to stuff like that where people just go absolutely ballistic.

I'll give them that the post was loaded, and that kind of stuff is never going to be said without some debate, and debate is fine. but comments like this:

Well as an English Spurs fan I’m gutted, f--- Northern Ireland

Are just sad. I can't imagine how many comments even worse have been moderated...

Re: Good Careers Require Blogging

Jesse — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:39:54 -0000

Blogging is helpful or beneficial to helping yourself get a good job and have a good career. To say a good career requires blogging is rediculous.

The first sentence of the article actually starts out by saying "Blogging is good for your career."

Then the article goes on to seemingly say that a blog is necessary. A bad blog can ruin you, a good one can help you, but I think you're fine not having one

Re: A New Way to Look at Bloggers: Referential or Experiential

Jesse — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:06:17 -0000

Obviously there are a ton of bloggers that are clearly one or the other- There's no doubt which kind Glenn Reynolds is. There's no question which kind Darren Rowse is. But it seems the vast majority of bloggers are really somewhere in between, and unless you're really good, you quite possibly aren't going to succeed if you do pure links with a little tidbit of your own or pages and pages of yourself rambling with hardly any outside content...

Re: Good Careers Require Blogging

Jesse — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:26:21 -0000

Indeed, I'm subscribed to Chris's site, so yeah I read his post, and he says a lot of good stuff in there

but

as I said, they aren't necessary. Your comment was dead-on as far as how blogs can help, but we've always gotten by without them. for the last 10-15 thousand years (imho, that can be later) humans have existed without blogs and done swell. Over the last 10 years blogs came into existence and all of the sudden you can't get by without one. I just don't think everyone needs or should even have a blog...

Re: Good Careers Require Blogging

Jesse — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:46:14 -0000

I'm starting to see your point.

When you asked if we could live without cars I was going to say yes, we could, we've just made our world into such that it's not really possible, then it sort of hit me that the same could be happening with blogs. There's no question they're getting much more mainstream, and I don't doubt their popularity is going to grow even further past what it is now, but I don't think we'll ever come to a point where you have to blog to succeed...

It's kind of like going to college...

Re: Good Careers Require Blogging

Jesse — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:49:41 -0000

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that a blog can hurt you every bit as much as it can help you. Sure, a potential employer logging onto google and finding a blog full of really great posts with lots of interactivity with the readers and several years of archives is going to be impressed. In the same way, an employer finding a myspace site (fair enough, it's not a blog) or a piece of splog*spot crap that's full of profanity, racism, poor spelling and idiocy is going to be majorly turned off. I guarantee the second person doesn't stand a chance of getting that job

Re: Good Careers Require Blogging

Jesse — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:13:34 -0000

no, that wasn't the point the author of the article was trying to make, but I'm saying someone shouldn't think "oh, I guess blogs are good. I guess I'll go throw up a xanga real quick and post about my constipation there"

The only blog that will help you is a good blog. You're better off blog-less than having a crappy blog just to have a blog

Re: Let’s do some Bible math

Jesse — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:50:41 -0000

Fascinating. I've always liked studying stuff like this, but I usually have to hear a sermon or something, as I've never taken the initiative myself to do some research on hebrew orwhatever

Re: My Changing Blog Portfolio

Jesse — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:18:01 -0000

In the end it always seems to come down to the one blog many topics or many topical blogs. The idea of hving an "everything blog" always sounds appealing, but most people tend to find that it doesn't work after a while, as you seem to have. There are some that claim their blog is really about anything they want it to be, but if you take a closer look you'll see they don't actually focus on very much...

Re: Why the Jet?

Jesse — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:06:05 -0000

what if we know exactly why it's being used?

Re: Why the Jet?

Jesse — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:29:08 -0000

I figured. Oh well, if it wasn't for that then it's extremely unlikely that I would have been able to figure it out anyways...

Re: The Idiot’s Guide to Installing WordPress

Jesse — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:31:36 -0000

nice stuff. Looks like something I could have used when I was starting out a few months ago and had never heard of "FTP" or "PHP"...the thing about learning it yourself instead of reading it out of a book is that you seem to learn it better when you teach yourself. When you have to figure out what chmod is and how to use it without any help, you learn it a lot better than when someone just tells you to right-click and change the value at the bottom to 666...

just my $.02

Re: I’m Addicted to Movable Type

Jesse — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:18:24 -0000

Jesse is going to make fun of me now.

You got that right. I logged into a movablye type site and had to resist the urge to instantly click away.

It's not very well laid out, slightly confusing, just not that great. It's also not free as in beer like wp, open source, and it doesn't have a community anything like that of wp.

into a new subdomain, http://politics.technosailor.com (non-existent yet)

Did you do that for the sole purpose of tracking how many poor souls (like mine) went there anyways?

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As for getting the liscense, is MT really so much more fun to use than wordress that you'll pay 70 bucks to use it? 70 bucks buys you a lot more than a liscense fee for some second-class blogging software...

Re: I’m Addicted to Movable Type

Jesse — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:40:16 -0000

Yeah, it buys him the ability to send us each 35$ via PayPal ;-)

That would be an excellent use for it. Amazon gift cards are also tolerable

Re: Justice For All Does not Mean Fairness for All

Jesse — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:41:21 -0000

Remember the pigs in George Orwell's 1984?

Not to take anything away from an otherwise terrefic post, but the pigs were in "Animal Farm", the book bashing the Soviet socialist system...1984 was the Big Brother book where the government sees everything you do

Political correctness seeks to do an end-around justice and replace it with fairness. Unfortunately, this concept is so ingrained in society and is the driving force behind nations deteriorating into socialism.

True that. I could make a very strong point that socialism is in fact the ideal system in theory, but in practice it is never going to work. It never has and there's no reason to think it will. Unfortunately the libs can't seem to "get" this and they keep pushing for centralized this and government funded this, and leveled that. Too bad they're a generation behind the curve

Re: Justice For All Does not Mean Fairness for All

Jesse — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:01:52 -0000

have you seen the movie? That was also really good

Re: Video Blogger Makes Me Proud

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:01:08 -0000

just a brilliant idea. so easy, but everyone likes it

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:51:48 -0000

wait a second. impeach him? Why? Oh, because you don't like him. Not liking a president isn't enough to impeach him.

Spying on America? If that's what you want to call it go right ahead, and if you want to get rid of it, go right ahead, and if you want to start digging that bomb shelter, I suggest you do that ASAP, because the terrorists are going to stop at nothing to attack this country. complete privacy, which was lost years ago, in case you didn't notice, has a heavy price, including, in this case, loss of security

and just what is going to be accomplished by impeaching Bush? It would be an embarassment to the country and a victory for the french and the arabs, and nothing more

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:37:47 -0000

You didn’t read my article then did you? It has nothing to do with not liking him. I think he’s a fairly likable guy. It has to do with the rule of law, the same way the Clinton impeachment was about lying under oath (not a blowjob like A.J likes to think). There is no legality to the NSA eavesdropping without a warrant. The argument has already been made. Read it.

Oh I read your article. So you like Bush, fair enough. That wasn't really the main argument for either of us, but this:

It has to do with the rule of law

The issue, though, is that we both have a completely different view on this. I don't think he broke the law. It was a little sketchy, but I don't think he did anything illegal. You're coming from the opposite direction, so we're just going to end up going in circles.

If the right to privacy can be used to justify abortion rights, it certainly can be expected as a basic tenant of American liberty.

I don't know if you're being serious or not, but the idea that allowing abortion is giving the mother privacy is one of the lamest excuses ever to circumventing constitutional law

If you’re so willing to give it up, I suggest you go turn yourself in to the FBI so they can document your life, take fingerprint and DNA samples of you and place a tracking device on your car.

I'm not saying I enjoy loss of privacy, merely that I'm not "naive" (if you will) enough to think I ever had it.

Since when has this been a popularity contest in the world. This is a nation of laws and three branches of government, not one that can do whatever he wants. Give me a break.

That still doesn't answer what you expect impeachment to accomplish. It will embarass the country, be a victory for the enemies, and be a huge battle won for the likes of John F'ing Kerry, Ted Kennedy, and Michael Moore.

I don't like any of those three

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:57:39 -0000

1. I don’t care if it embarasses the country. What does that have to do with enforcing law and the integrity of the Office of President?

I don't think a law has been broken, and I don't think there is any integrity missing from the current oval office.

2. How is it a victory for enemies? I thought the real war was a battle over ideals. Was not aware it was a battle over George Bush. In that case, let’s hold steady because the 2008 election will mean the end of terrorism because George Bush will be out of office. Please.

Like it or not, anything involving this presidency and this regime is going to be all about bush. at the moment he is the face of the nation. having congress impeach him is a victory for those all over the world who hate him and hate what he's done

3. John Kerry, Ted Kennedy. Who cares? It’s not political. It’s legal.

For being a legal issue it's remarkably partisan

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:24:30 -0000

Unless I forgot something, I don't think I ever said that I like eavesdropping. I'm not completely sure I agree with the decision to do it, and I'm not completely sure I'm not a little bit upset it happened

BUT

I think the legality is far too grey to say Bush is a criminal

and

Bush hardly deserves to be impeached for this, which was what the original argument was.

It’s insulting to see the same right-wingers who decried and deplored relatively mild gun laws as evil pre-emptive desecrations of the sacred right to keep and bear arms suddenly fall in love with the idea of pre-emptive laws concerning communications and terrorism and then up the ante by many order of magnitude with a pre-emptive WAR!

I don't think I follow your logic here. Being anti gun laws doesn't really have a ton to do with Bush getting impeached over this

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:31:39 -0000

Forgot about this:

I still don't understand how Republicans support a man who is more liberal than Bill Clinton, but hey, I guess this will piss them off.

I...I don't quite know where to begin on this one, so I'll take the bait- how is Bush more liberal than clinton?

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:46:19 -0000

I'll admit I hate big govt. spending, but to me this is what a democrat is:

*pro abortion
*pro gay rights/marriage
*anti death penalty
*pro big spending/govt.
*pro socialism
*pro gun control
*pro reverse discrimination
*pro environment crap

and Bush is one out of eight

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:48:39 -0000

be technical if you want, the two are nearly identical

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:51:19 -0000

do better than what? arguing my case? It's not like I expect to convince you anyways, and you're certainly not going to convince me

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:56:08 -0000

and your point is? I never said we should ignore it. I'm saying bush didn't break the law/shouldn't be impeached, and had a semi valid reason for doing what he did. you're saying I'm too scared to care about my rights

as for iraq, that's a completely different issue.

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:00:51 -0000

I'll flip the question- explain why bush did break the law

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:16:26 -0000

I read it, and I didn't find it a satisfactory explanation.

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:17:43 -0000

you obviously want him out. who would you like instead? Kerry? Hillary?

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:24:43 -0000

I'm not backing up wiretapping, I'm not looking the other way on anything, I'm not giving up my personal rights, all I'm doing is saying Bush doesn't deserve either impeachment or getting thrown out of office.

The one man who I think is behind a lot more of this than people think and who very well might have broken countless laws is Donald Rumsfeld

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:46:05 -0000

Muslim jihadists are not a Big Threat to this nation.

I can't even begin to tell you how stunning those words are. You obviously don't have a clue about the Islamic goal. If threatening to launch nuclear attacks against us isn't a threat, what the #@$& is?

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:50:07 -0000

what we really need is to get Tom Coburn elected president.

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:51:58 -0000

oh, and aaron, you wanted to nail down my position, here it is:

I don't like wiretapping.
The legality is grey
Bush isn't the best president ever
I respect his responsibility to do anything and everything he can to protect this country.

Re: California Joins Illinois in Calling for Bush Impeachment

Jesse — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:32:59 -0000

except bush isn't trying to reduce this nation to absolute despotism.

liiiitle bit of a discrepancy there

Re: Plane in Houston Airspace Circling Airport

Jesse — Tue, 02 May 2006 19:57:53 -0000

I am so freaking glad I wasn't the person who had to land that plane. can't imagine.

it's gotta be tense being on board one of those flights.

This reminds me of that JetBlue episode a few months ago...

Re: Alpha Payment System Completed

Jesse — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:23:54 -0000

That would explain the mysterious "PHPing b5media" I see as your away message every time I see you on gmail talk.

That's a pretty slick setup you're working on, I just wanted to remind you to make sure to put that php call we talked about to automatically add two zeros to all of my payments

Re: Latte Shortage!

Jesse — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:25:03 -0000

For an odd reason I have the same feeling I get when I walk into a room as I guy's finishing telling a joke and everyone start laughing at I have no clue what.

Re: Alpha Payment System Completed

Jesse — Fri, 05 May 2006 10:13:57 -0000

<php>
< ?php if (!is_jesse()) { ?>
< ?php add_two_zeros(oo); ?>
< ?php } elseif (is_other_blogger()) { ?>
< ?php remove_two_digits(); ?>
< ?php } ?>
</php>

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what are the chances that would work?

what are the chances that's remotely close to proper php?

Re: Alpha Payment System Completed

Jesse — Sun, 07 May 2006 10:14:02 -0000

you see, that's why you're a coder and I am not. I'm still mostly clueless in php

Re: The Da Vinci Code

Jesse — Sun, 07 May 2006 22:05:09 -0000

no way am I watching the movie and giving money to that slimeball. Sadly, most people who debate the truth of the book have never done the research on it, and thus are completely clueless.

99% of the book is complete bull

Re: The Da Vinci Code

Jesse — Sun, 07 May 2006 22:48:38 -0000

what sort of an opportunity?

the problem is that so many people believe everything they read, whether it's in the fiction or non-fiction section. they pick up a cool adventure book that says Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, and they instantly think it's true. They never question it. now authors like Dan Brown can write whatever crap they want and it gets swallowed up...

Re: The Da Vinci Code

Jesse — Sun, 07 May 2006 22:52:22 -0000

and yes, I have read the book cover to cover, so I'm not going off what I read on a web site or anything

Re: The Da Vinci Code

Jesse — Mon, 08 May 2006 08:49:38 -0000

Stacie...sigh.

The book is a novel. There is virtually nothing in that book that is true. Anything that you started believing after reading that book is completely untrue.

The catholic church is not hiding anything. The Priory of Sion has not existed for hundreds of years. Opus Dei is not out to get anyone, though they do exist.

I think that anyone can prove or disprove a theory; there’s no concrete truth one way or another.

That's rediculous

Re: The Da Vinci Code

Jesse — Mon, 08 May 2006 13:30:02 -0000

. No one can prove that Jesus was married and no one can disprove that he wasn’t.

There is absolutely no proof whatsoever that he was married, and there is plenty that he was. There's not a scholar alive in his right mind that would tell you that there's evidence he was married.

When I got to college I took a religion class where the priest taught us different ways to read the bible. I had no idea that Adam and Eve were parables and not real people. From there on in, I took bible readings with a grain of salt.

You know why you had no idea? Because it's not true. There is nothing to back up that assumption, other than lack of human faith in the Bible. A weak case to toss aside stuff as figurative metaphor

Have you ever wondered how women went from being worshiped to being almost nothing? The Church. The Church just loves having power. Did you know that women of the Revolutionary War have been written out of history - many facts we have about women in the war comes from journals and letters? Why? Men of the church.

I think that Da Vinci Code was a great thing - it got people to think and question.

To be honest, that's a load of garbage. I repeat, the Da Vinci Code is pure fiction. Anything you gained from reading it is also pure fiction...

Re: The Da Vinci Code

Jesse — Mon, 08 May 2006 14:42:52 -0000

Why is it that someone questions the Church and it’s all garbage. Why would people get so upset over this “novel”?

Christians are getting upset over it because it is such a piece of garbage, but people are actually believing it. That's why

All it did was made me think differently and a bit more about the Church. I do believe that the church has covered up things that we’ll never know the truth to and that’s very sad.

What sort of things are they "hiding". I'd be surprised if you have any backing for that.

For instance, the church selectively deciding which books to be a part of the bible? completely false.

Re: The Da Vinci Code

Jesse — Mon, 08 May 2006 15:43:34 -0000

Prove that the Church isn’t hiding anything.

Au contraire. The church is not hiding anything, and never has. It's up to you to prove that it is, and I'm betting you can't.

Prove that these “stories” that are 100s of years old that have been translated from languages no longer used and stories told from person to person are correct.

There is no need to. The Bible as repeatedly been proven to be historically accurate. These secondary documents that Dan Brown claims were kept out of the Bible because of the secrets they held were in fact written hundreds of years after the fact, unlike the Bible. They also contain no factual information that can verrified, unlike the Bible. If you ever take the time to read any of them you'll be stunned at how high on pot the authors sound

Re: Moussaoui Decides He Doesn’t Want to Plead Guilty

Jesse — Mon, 08 May 2006 20:06:34 -0000

Ha. I read a descritption of the prison he's going to be in, and were it not for the fact that close to 40k tax dollars are going to pay to keep him there every year, it actually sounds like something far worse than quick death.

Re: The Da Vinci Code

Jesse — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:03:03 -0000

Yes, the Da Vinci Code is fiction. It was, however, largely ‘inspired’ (debate rages over whether it was actually lifted) by a book by three historians : ‘Holy Blood, Holy Grail’. Whether their research is accurate or not, I can’t say. But the book is based on their research and Dan Brown’s.

That's interesting, I honestly had no idea, actually. But still, who did the research doesn't have any effect on the fact that just about all of the claims made in the book are completely bogus.

There are countless books, most of them having been written and printed way before the Da Vinci Code even was an idea in Dan Brown’s mind, about Mary Madgalene and her role in Jesus’s life. It is a theory. Not necessarily the truth, but not just Dan Brown’s imagination either.

Yes, it has been a theory for a while, and there are many who subscribe to it, but the same can be said about UFOs in Maine.

History is a very fascinating thing. My belief is that it is a foolish man who can assert he knows what truly happened when he wasn’t there himself.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Here's why:

A large part of the new testament was written shortly after the life of Jesus (after he ascended). The books were written by followers of Jesus who spent three years of their life following him everywhere he went.

The books that Dan Brown based his claims off of were written hundreds of years later. While they have names such as "The gosple of Thomas" and "The gosple of Judas" they were not in fact written by those people, but were given those names so that the people that wrote them would be seen with a bit more credibility.

So, people that lived with Jesus and wrote down accounts that all match up not long after he left earth say one thing, and people over a hundred years later who were just random people who never saw Jesus say another that is totally contradictory- which one do you believe?

Re: The Da Vinci Code

Jesse — Wed, 10 May 2006 09:35:03 -0000

but what is the proof that this account was accurately transcribed or translated? That it was not edited/modified as the years went by, to suit the ideas someone who had enough power wanted to propagate?

Because there have been countless translations of the Bible from the original text, and all of them have been virtually identical. Hundreds of expert scholars and translators working over hundreds of years don't colaborate and decide how they want things translated.

Did you ever play the phone game where you whisper a secret in someone’s ear and after 10 people, the last person says something different than the first person? Now try saying it in different languages.

Fun game, faulty analogy. As I said, the Bible has only been translated once- From Greek/Hebrew/other languages into English. Hundreds of scholars over the years have translated the Bible. All of the translations are virtually the same.

Re: General Clean Up

Jesse — Wed, 17 May 2006 23:07:00 -0000

Much better. Load time is now at normal blog level.

I was noticing that your load time was really starting to crawl. Big javascript packages, ads, and stat packages can really do that to you. Are you using prototype for the live search/ajax commenting?

Re: Birthday Blitz Winners

Jesse — Wed, 24 May 2006 10:49:07 -0000

Ha, yeah, productivity, I kind of forgot about that. Haven't gotten anything yet

Re: Let’s do some Bible math

Jesse — Mon, 29 May 2006 22:16:46 -0000

Now that is what I call aggressive self-promo

Re: Piracy worse than child pornography

Jesse — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:35:01 -0000

I don't how accurate that article is. What they conviniently ignore is that 10 years is max for piracy. The other sentences are minimum. Half the time piracy will get a slap on the wrist or a small fine, 10 years is only an extreme case.

As for the other side, I know of a guy who's in jail for life because of a child porn crime...

Re: Did someone say Winter?

Jesse — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:39:30 -0000

Funny, here we went from 92 to 58 in a span of 36 hours.

Re: Did someone say Winter?

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:11:03 -0000

Yes, heat sucks. When it's cold you can put on layer after layer after layer. when it's hot you just suck it up and drink ice water.

92 to 58 is approx. 34-13. Yeah, that was a big drop

Re: Need food, must sell…Weblog Empire up for sale!

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:14:05 -0000

That was a quick 1250. Congrats

Re: Need food, must sell…Weblog Empire up for sale!

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:45:15 -0000

yeah, some stretch for a week or so but end up getting a huge take. You might have been able to get something more like 1750 and 500...who knows. of course, a quick sale is always nice

Re: Did someone say Winter?

Jesse — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:29:12 -0000

34 is exceptionally hot for this time of year, though normal for the summer. we had a cold front come in. One day it was hot, the next day we had a black sky all day, then 90 k/hour winds and the hardest rain I've ever seen. it's been cool ever since

Re: Where should I go on holidays?

Jesse — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:03:18 -0000

ireland

Re: Where should I go on holidays?

Jesse — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:14:06 -0000

new zealand

Re: More on Blogdesk from Johannes Oppermann

Jesse — Thu, 04 May 2006 09:21:21 -0000

I've been giving qumana a good look recently, and it's not bad...but after you and I both agreeing that posting from the admin panel was the best and then you going wild over this, I might have to try it out...

Re: Why Americans worry the rest of the world

Jesse — Thu, 04 May 2006 09:22:28 -0000

It is pretty lame. And yes, I am one of the four that can find Iraq

Re: Canvas, just what the WP doctor ordered

Jesse — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:03:54 -0000

looks very interesting. Is it a theme or a plugin or a mod of wordpress? interesting concept

Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

Jesse — Tue, 09 May 2006 23:25:11 -0000

Just in case, I'd suggest you get your flame suite on...

Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

Jesse — Tue, 09 May 2006 23:30:06 -0000

Actually, now that I read his post I see were you're coming from. I thought you were starting a fight based on an offhand comment in one of his posts, but when he does a whole write-up on it he's obviously asking for it.

All I can say is I'm glad I wasn't raised that way. How mature a kid is doesn't have anything to do with whether or not they should be seeing adult content

Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

Jesse — Wed, 10 May 2006 09:22:12 -0000

Yeah, I think learning from parents and not friends or internet searches or whatever is best, but I can't help but wonder if playing an adult video game with your son is the best way of teaching...

and yeah, 12 is young

Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

Jesse — Wed, 10 May 2006 14:31:34 -0000

I see your point, Robert.

It reminds of some story about two neighbors who were best friends, and they desperately wanted their kids to marry. Thus while their kids were growing up they pretended to hate each other and told their kids never to go near the neighbor's kid.

And guess what happened?

Re: BlogHer: where the feminist victimhood agenda is at

Jesse — Sun, 21 May 2006 21:51:17 -0000

You're going to have the roof come down on you in a minute, but you're dead-on.

Next what, an organization for non-american bloggers?

Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

Jesse — Mon, 22 May 2006 20:41:07 -0000

Dunc- please, delete this spam

Re: Surpass Hosting Sucks, or the problem with shared hosting

Jesse — Wed, 24 May 2006 10:41:39 -0000

Three hosts that I have seen universaly recommended and have yet to see a single valid complaint against are Media Temple, Bluehost, and A Small Orange.

Dreamhost is good as long as you don't plan on running a massive dynamic site like wordpress where it starts to crash the database that they cram with customers

Re: Halfway through my blog vacation (change in comment policy)

Jesse — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:53:05 -0000

I applaud the move to moderated comments, but that's a heck of a lot of extra work for you to moderate everything. My biggest problem with moderated comments is not censorship (sp?) but that conversations die more easily. If an authors out and you're having a debate in the comments, it takes hours for things to get approved and readers can't talk.

OTOH, you probably check back here every hour or so, so it's not as big of a deal....

Re: LiewCF.com is PageRank 6!

Jesse — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:50:44 -0000

I'm getting a pr of 5 for you on the toolbar (yes! that evil toolbar)

Re: Install Internet Explorer 6 on Linux

Jesse — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:43:11 -0000

Why the #%$& would you want to?

:)